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Professor Simon Shorvon is a Consultant Neurologist and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neurology. He qualified in medicine in 1973 and has practised ever since, spending 43 years working in the NHS. His clinical work has been based at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and his academic work at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, both co-located in Queen Square London.
He has an active medico-legal practice, specialising in epilepsy, other central nervous system disorders, and brain injury.
His academic research in the field of epilepsy included work on epidemiology, clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, magnetic resonance imaging, aetiology, status epilepticus and health service policy. He has also written extensively on the history of epilepsy and neurology.
His main interests outside medicine are in writing, printing, music, and in bibliography, the focus of the latter being in the British fine presses from the 1890s to the present day. He is a keen bibliophil, and was appointed to the Honorary position of Harveian Librarian at the Royal College of Physicians between 2012-2016.