Professor Wilkinson obtained postgraduate degrees in experimental psychology and neurological science from the University of Kent and University College London respectively, before completing post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School, USA. Since moving back to the University of Kent in 2005, he has worked with clinical and commercial collaborators to gain regulatory clearance for caloric vestibular stimulation in the management of episodic migraines and Parkinson’s disease. He has also conducted early-phase trials to investigate the efficacy, safety, and mechanistic bases of both caloric and galvanic vestibular stimulation in acquired and traumatic brain injury. More widely, he has helped pioneer our understanding of how the human balance system, in both health and disease, interacts with cognition and emotion. He is a former director of the Research Design Service at the National Institute for Health Research and currently sits on the Parkinson’s UK College of Experts. He also has honorary investigator status at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust, UK, and at the Translational Research National Centre for TBI & Stress Disorders Centre at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston Healthcare System, USA.
Professor David Wilkinson
