Karl Ng
Professor
Medicine
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Dr Ng is a Conjoint Associate Professor at the Northern and Clinical School, University of Sydney, and Senior Staff Specialist Consultant Neurologist Royal North Shore Hospital. He completed his medical degree with First Class Honours at the University of New South Wales, and attained accreditation in Neurology from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He has undertaken a 3 year post-fellowship training in Clinical Neurophysiology at the prestigious National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London culminating in accreditation of a second specialty in the UK in this area. He completed a PhD thesis in the field of peripheral nerve axonal excitability.
Research Interest
Currently, his main research interest is in peripheral neuromuscular disorders, especially the field of nerve axonal excitability which is the subject of a completed doctoral thesis, and muscle excitability.This includes studying both peripheral neuropathic, as well as central nervous system disorders such as multiple sclerosis for their peripheral adaptive plasticity.
Publications
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Boland-Freitas, R., Graham, J., Davis, M., Geevasinga, N., Vucic, S., Ng, K. (2016). Late onset distal myopathy of the upper limbs due to pIle151Val mutation in VCP. Muscle & Nerve, 54(1), 165-166.
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Dyer, W., Tan, J., Day, T., Kiers, L., Kiernan, M., Yiannikas, C., Reddel, S., Ng, K., Mondy, P., Dennington, P., Dos Remedios, C., Vucic, S., et al (2016). Immunomodulation of inflammatory leukocyte markers during intravenous immunoglobulin treatment associated with clinical efficacy in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy. Brain and Behavior, 6(10), 1-11.
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Massey, J., Kumar, K., Ng, K., Yun, J., Fernando, S. (2017). Skeletal myositis as the sole feature of relapsing drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms syndrome. Annals of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, 118, 726-748.
