Dr John Mottershead

Dr John Mottershead is a Neurologist at Te Whatu Ora–Southern. He trained at Oxford University as a medical student and after qualification and junior doctor jobs was involved in research into uses of MRI in MS under the supervision of Professor Ian McDonald at Queen Square, London, before completing his neurology training in the South West of England. From 2002 to 2009 he was a neurologist in Manchester, where he gained further experience in general neurology and worked in the busy MS disease-modifying treatment clinic that served Greater Manchester. In 2009 he and his family moved to Dunedin. In 2013 he received an MSc in Clinical Education, with Distinction, from Edinburgh University. He continues to have a clinical interest in MS and other demyelinating disorders.