Dr Anita Devlin is a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at Newcastle’s Great North Children’s Hospital specialising in epilepsy, vagal nerve stimulation, Ketogenic Diet, neurodisability particularly posture and movement disorders and developmental impairments of vision.
Dr Devlin graduated from University College London Medical School in 1988 and trained in Oxford, Southampton, Aberdeen, London and Newcastle in Paediatrics and then Paediatric Neurology. She was awarded a higher doctorate (MD) for research in 2001.
Her areas of sub-specialisation are complex epilepsy and neurodisability. She is the regional lead for paediatric epilepsy and offer clinics for the diagnosis and management of complex epilepsy in childhood including vagal nerve stimulator and ketogenic diet clinics. She teaches about epilepsy nationally and internationally.
She also specialises in the assessment and management of complex paediatric neurodisability with particular focus on posture and movement disorders and disorders of vision.
