Dr. UKD Ajith Goonetilleke Consultant Neurologist

Awards & Achievements

• Certificate of Specialist Training in Neurology, UK
• The Specialist Training Authority of the Medical Royal Colleges, UK
• PG Dip (Medical Leadership), Merit Grade, University of London
• Full-time MBA Program at Durham University, UK (Business School with a Triple Accreditation by AMBA, AACSB, and Eques)
• February 1992 - Gordon Holmes Registrar's Prize Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Neurology, UK
• March 1994 - Norman Plummer Prize Clinical Postgraduate Prize, Charing Cross Hospital, UK
• December 2010 - Best Clinical Research Award Second SEHA Research Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• December 2010 - Most Read of CME Articles by Neurologists in 2010, and 2nd Most E-mailed Article on Medscape in 2010 Medscape Online Continuing Medical Education
• November 2017 - PG Diploma (Medical Leadership), Merit Grade for a Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Leadership (Joint Approval by the Royal College of Physicians, and Birkbeck College, University of London)
• April 2021 - Durham University Business School Achievement Scholarship
• May 2021 - Awarded a UAE Golden Visa as a Special Talent

Research & Publications

• Goonetilleke A. The direction of scratch test. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1993; 56:578
• Goonetilleke A, Guiloff RJ. Accuracy, reproducibility, and variability of quantitative assessments of bulbar and respiratory function on motor neuron disease (MND). J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1993; 56:729
• Goonetilleke A, Guiloff RJ. Accuracy, reproducibility, and variability of hand-held dynamometry in motor neuron disease (MND). J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1993; 56:729
• Goonetilleke A, Guiloff RJ. Longitudinal assessments in motor neuron disease (MND)- implications for therapeutic trials. Can J Neurol Sci 1993;20(suppl.4): S81
• Goonetilleke A, Modarres-Sadeghi H, Guiloff RJ. Accuracy, reproducibility, and variability of hand-held dynamometry in motor neuron disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1994; 57:326-32
• Goonetilleke A, Guiloff RJ. Accuracy, reproducibility, and variability of quantitative assessments of bulbar and respiratory function on motor neuron disease. J Neurol Sci 1994;124 (suppl): 64-6
• Goonetilleke A. Ten questions answered: motor neuron disease- GP's role with patients and their careers. Pulse 1994; 54:72-80
• Goonetilleke A, Guiloff RJ. Continuous response variable trial design in motor neuron disease: long term treatment with a TRH analogue (RX77368). J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1995; 58:201-8
• Goonetilleke A. Neurology symposium: current therapies in motor neuron disease. BJHM 1995;53(7):314-7
• Goonetilleke A. Validity of the London handicap scale. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1995; 58:125-126
• Goonetilleke A. Symptomatic carotid lesions in young adults. BMJ 1995; 311:1436
• Goonetilleke A, Yuill GM. Aberrant regeneration of the third cranial nerve. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1996; 60:281
• Guiloff RJ, Goonetilleke A, Emami J. Riluzole and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Lancet 1996; 348:336-7
• Fenwick S, Goonetilleke A, Santosh CG, Newman PK. Cerebral venous thrombosis in Bechet’s disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1997; 63:419
• Goonetilleke A, Nikhar N, Tan SV, Orrell RW, Guiloff RJ. Clinical assessment of muscle force. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1997; 62:213
• Macleod MA, Goonetilleke A, Fisher C, Newman PK. Isolated myoclonus of platysma. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1997; 62:214
• Goonetilleke A, Nikhar N, Tan SV, Orrell RW, Guiloff RJ. Assessing human muscle force. J Neurol Sci 1997;150 (suppl): S4
• Vaidya B, Coulthard A, Goonetilleke A, Burn DJ, James RA, Kendall-Taylor P. Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis-a late sequel of invasive fibrous thyroiditis. Thyroid 1998;8(9):787-90
• Goonetilleke A. Peripheral nerve disorders. Surgery 2001: 185-190
• Goonetilleke A, Harris JB. Envenomation, and consumption of poisonous seafood. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002; 73:103-109
• Goonetilleke A, Harris JB. Clostridial neurotoxins. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75 (Suppl III):40-46
• Goonetilleke A, Harris JB. Animal poisons and the nervous system: what the neurologist needs to know. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75 (Suppl III):35-39
• Birchall D, Mitra D, Chinnery P, Goonetilleke A, Bushby K. Use of MR imaging for the phenotypic characterization of muscular dystrophy. Australasian Radiology 2004;48(2): A18
• Mahad DJ, Baker M, Thomas L, Goonetilleke A, Walls TJ, Perry R, Reid M. Immunotyping of the cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytes by flow cytometry in primary central nervous system B-cell lymphoma. Immunology: Annual Congress of the British Society for Immunology 2005
• Jaiser SR, Cassidy A, Guadagno JV, Schaefer AM, Anderson K, Goonetilleke A. Denture cream as a cause of copper deficiency and neurological disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2009; 80(11): e3
• Goonetilleke A. A 34-year-old female with acute dizziness, hiccups, poor coordination, and sensory disturbance of the limbs. Published online in October 2010 as CME Case of the Week (Medscape). This article was rated the Number 1 Most-Read of Medscape CME articles by Neurologists in 2010 as well as Number 2 Most E-mailed Article on Medscape in 2010
• Goonetilleke A. The importance of early treatment in multiple sclerosis. Make Sense Newsletter, April 2013
• Goonetilleke A. Brain on fire. J Clin Case Rep, 2016
• Goonetilleke A, de Belleroche J, Guiloff RJ. Motor Neuron Disease. In Tipton KF, ed. Essays in Biochemistry. London: Portland Press Limited, 1994:27-45
• Guiloff RJ, Goonetilleke A. Longitudinal clinical assessments in motor neuron disease: relevance to clinical trials. In Clifford Rose F, ed. ALS- from Charcot to the present and into the future. London: Smith-Gordon Publications, 1994:73-82
• Guiloff RJ, Goonetilleke A. The natural history of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: observations with the Charing Cross ALS Severity Scales. In Munsat TL, Serratrice G, ed. Pathogenesis and Therapy of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Advances in Neurology. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1995:68;185-98
• Goonetilleke A, Guiloff RJ. Motor Neuron Disease: Ethics, Outcome Variables and Clinical Scales. In Guiloff RJ, ed. Clinical Trials in Neurology. Springer-Verlag, 2000
• Goonetilleke A, Harris JB. Neurological problems caused by envenoming bites and stings, and the consumption of poisonous seafood. In Blain PG & Harris JB, ed. Medical Neurotoxicology: occupational and environmental causes of neurological dysfunction, 1999: 111-125

Education & Training

• MBBS
• MRCP
• FRCP (UK)

Membership

• General Medical Council, UK
• Royal College of Physicians, UK
• Association of British Neurologists
• American Academy of Neurology