Professor Jeremy Parr is a Consultant in Paediatric Neurodisability at the Great North Children’s Hospital specialising in autism spectrum disorder and Clinical Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University.
Professor Parr has wide-ranging research interests in the Neurodisability field, including investigating the neurobiological basis of disabilities, carrying out intervention studies to ameliorate disability, and undertaking research into clinical service delivery.
Professor Parr’s clinical work is for two local NHS Trusts:
- The Newcastle Hospitals at the Great North Children’s Hospital in the Regional Neurodisability service (Regional Feeding clinic, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Clinic) and
- Cumbria, Northumberland Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust in the Regional Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis, management and intervention service, where I lead multidisciplinary assessments of children with ASD (the Complex Neurodevelopmental Disorders Service)
Qualifications
- MB ChB (1996)
- MD (Broader Autism Phenotype, 2007)
- CCT in Paediatric Neurodisability, and Paediatrics (2007)
National committee roles
- Member of the Executive Committee of the British Academy of Childhood Disability (2007-present)
- Chair of the British Academy of Childhood Disability Strategic Research Group (2012-present)
- Co-Chair of the Research Autism Scientific Advisory Committee (2012-present)
- Member, the NIHR Paediatric Neurosciences Clinical Study Group (2013-present)
- Member of the Research Support Panel for Child Brain Research (2013-present)
- Member of the British Autism Study of Infant Siblings (BASIS) Science Committee (2012-present)
- Trustee for the Castang Foundation charity
- Expert adviser to The National Autism Project
Previous positions
Nov 2006 – May 2009 Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Paediatric Neurodisability, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health, London
Sept 2008 – May 2009 Senior Academic Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician University of Oxford and Oxford Children’s Hospital
