Our Doctors
Dr Nimalan Harinesan
MBBS, FRACP
Neurologist & Neurophysiologist
Dr Nimalan Harinesan is a neurologist and neurophysiologist providing expert and compassionate care for people with a wide range of neurological conditions.
He has specialist interests in multiple sclerosis, autoimmune neurology, neuromuscular disorders and diagnostic neurophysiology. He combines evidence-based medicine with a personalised approach to patient care.
Prof Robert Heard
MD, FRCP, FRACP
Neurologist
Rob Heard has combined academic and clinical neurology for over 30 years. He was born in Western Australia and educated in the UK. He studied medicine and neurology at Guys Hospital, the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and The Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London.
He has an Honours BSc in clinical pharmacology and a research MD in molecular immunogenetics. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists.
He founded the Westmead MS clinic and has published widely, including papers in Nature, Nature Genetics, Lancet Neurology, J Immunology and NEJM. He is currently a conjoint professor in the University of Newcastle.