Yael Hacohen

Yael Hacohen is an NIHR academic clinical lecturer in paediatric neurology at University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. Yael completed her doctoral studies in 2014, in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience (NDCN) at Oxford University, where she studied children with autoimmune encephalitis and characterised their clinical and immunological (autoantibody) phenotypes. Yael’s main research interest is the role of antibodies in paediatric CNS disorders particularly acquired demyelinating syndromes.