Dr Rhys Thomas is an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the RVI’s Neurosciences Centre and a Reader in Epilepsy at Newcastle University.
Dr Thomas is an Epileptologist who takes a lead for people with intellectual disability and epilepsy, and on genetic testing in the epilepsies. He is a learning disability champion for Newcastle Hospitals. He actively participates in clinical trials, particularly studying treatments for rare genetic epilepsies. He also supports the Highly Specialised Service for rare Mitochondrial disorders. He is a Trustee of the Epilepsy Research Institute, an advisor to Epilepsy Action and has a research collaboration with SUDEP Action.
Dr Thomas grew up in Ecuador, Hertfordshire and South Wales before studying medicine and physiology in Bristol. He graduated in 2003 and trained in general medicine in the South West of England. In 2007 he returned to South Wales to train in Neurology and undertook a MSc in Psychiatry.
Following his PhD, (Cardiff 2013) he spent a year working for the epilepsy genetics group at the Brain Research Institute, University of Melbourne under Professors Berkovic and Scheffer. Dr Thomas joined Newcastle University from Cardiff University in 2017.
