Prof. Orla Hardiman

Orla Hardiman Professor of Neurology and Head of the Academic Unit of Neurology at Trinity College Dublin and Consultant Neurologist at Beaumont Hospital, where she is Director of the National Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) service. The clinic provides direct clinical care for over 80% of Irish patients with ALS.

She leads a research group of over 40 individuals in Neurodegeneration, with particular focus on ALS and frontotemporal dementia. She is Editor in Chief of the journal Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and the Frontotemporal Degenerations.

She is the recipient of a number of international awards including the AAN Sheila Essey Award in ALS Research, and the International ALS Alliance Forbes Norris Award. Her research is funded by Science Foundation Ireland, the Health Research Board, The American Centre for Disease Control, The American ALS Association, the British MND Association the Irish MND Association, and the charity Research Motor Neuron.