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Junie Shiwen Koay

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Location:

  • National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

GMC/GDC number:

7169749

Professional background

Dr Junie Koay is a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and honorary senior clinical research fellow at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate training in London with a PhD in autonomic biomarkers at UCL, and a post-CCT fellowship at the Queen Square Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases.

She works within the inflammatory peripheral nerve service at the Queen Square Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases and sees patients with a range of general neurology and peripheral nerve diseases.

Specialties

Research interests

Inflammatory neuropathies including CIDP, paraproteinemic neuropathies, POEMS syndrome, and neurological complications of immunotherapy. Autonomic neuropathies and skin biopsy.

Publications

  • Koay, S., Vichayanrat, E., Bremner, F., Panicker, J. N., Lang, B., Lunn, M. P., Watson, L., Ingle, G. T., Hagen, E. M., McNamara, P., Jacobson, L., Provitera, V., Nolano, M., Vincent, A., Mathias, C. J., & Iodice, V. (2021). Multimodal Biomarkers Quantify Recovery in Autoimmune Autonomic Ganglionopathy. Annals of neurology, 89(4), 753–768. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.26018
  • Koay, S., & Dewan, B. (2013). An unexpected Holter monitor result: multiple sinus arrests in a patient with lateral medullary syndrome. BMJ case reports, 2013, bcr2012007783. https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2012-007783 
  • Chiaro, G., Stancanelli, C., Koay, S., Vichayanrat, E., Sander, L., Ingle, G.T., McNamara, P., Carr, A.S., Wechalekar, A.D., Whelan, C.J., Gillmore, J.D., Hawkins, P.N., Reilly, M.M., Mathias, C.J., Iodice, V. (2024). Cardiovascular autonomic failure in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis and TTR carriers is an early and progressive disease marker. Clin Auton Res. Epub May 2024. DOI: 10.1007/s10286-024-01038-z
  • Alnasser Alsukhni, R., Vichayanrat, E., Koay, S., Davis, L. M., Ingle, G., McNamara, P., ... & Iodice, V. (2023). Abnormal dopamine transporter imaging in pure autonomic failure: a potential biomarker of central nervous system involvement. European Journal of Neurology. https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.16169
  • Nolano, M., Caporaso, G., Manganelli, F., Stancanelli, A., Borreca, I., Mozzillo, S., Tozza, S., Dubbioso, R., Iodice, R., Vitale, F., Koay, S., Vichayanrat, E., da Silva, F. V., Santoro, L., Iodice, V., & Provitera, V. (2022). Phosphorylated α-Synuclein Deposits in Cutaneous Nerves of Early Parkinsonism. Journal of Parkinson's disease, 12(8), 2453–2468. https://doi.org/10.3233/JPD-223421
  • Vichayanrat, E., Valerio, F., Koay, S., De Pablo-Fernandez, E., Panicker, J., Morris, H., Bhatia, K., Chelban, V., Houlden, H., Quinn, N., Navarro-Otano, J., Miki, Y., Holton, J., Warner, T., Mathias, C., & Iodice, V. (2022). Diagnosing Premotor Multiple System Atrophy: Natural History and Autonomic Testing in an Autopsy-Confirmed Cohort. Neurology, 99(11), e1168–e1177. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000200861
  • Provitera, V., Iodice, V., Manganelli, F., Mozzillo, S., Caporaso, G., Stancanelli, A., Borreca, I., Esposito, M., Dubbioso, R., Iodice, R., Vitale, F., Koay, S., Vichayanrat, E., Valerio, F., Santoro, L., & Nolano, M. (2022). Postganglionic Sudomotor Assessment in Early Stage of Multiple System Atrophy and Parkinson Disease: A Morpho-functional Study. Neurology, 98(12), e1282–e1291. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000013300