Professional Profile

Dr Robert Hadden qualified from Oxford University Medical School in 1992 and has been Consultant Neurologist at Maidstone Hospital since 2004, moving to Tunbridge Wells Hospital in 2025. He has been Neurology Clinical Lead at the Trust since 2017.

Dr Hadden sees patients in all areas of general neurology. He also works at the regional neuroscience centre at King’s College Hospital, London, where he leads the regional specialist peripheral nerve service. This service is recognised as a Centre of Excellence by the GBS/CIDP Foundation International, and is the leading UK centre for diagnosis of small fibre neuropathy.

His main academic interests are inflammatory neuropathies and vasculitic neuropathy. He studied Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) for his PhD, and has co-written international clinical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of GBS, CIDP, vasculitic neuropathy, MMN and paraproteinaemic neuropathy.

Dr Hadden is Reader (Associate Professor) at King’s College London. He is also Chair of the Inflammatory Neuropathy Consortium of the international Peripheral Nerve Society, past President of the British Peripheral Nerve Society, organiser of the annual King’s Neuromuscular Symposium, and on the Medical Advisory Board of the Inflammatory Neuropathies UK charity.