[WCN21;88;542]

An Unusual Case of Wasting of the Small Muscles of the Hand

Richard Stark

Richard Stark graduated from Monash University and trained at the Alfred Hospital, The London Hospital and the National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, in London.

He was appointed Visiting Neurologist at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. He is an enthusiastic teacher and is Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Monash University. The headache clinic at the Alfred is now the largest and most active public hospital based clinic in Australia.

His major area of clinical interest has been headache, but also neurology of cancer and medico-legal neurology. He has been involved in many multi-centre trials of migraine treatments and international migraine advisory committees. He has published extensively, including studies on the use of intravenous lignocaine in headache and recent reviews of migraine management in Australia and in Asia.

He is President of the Australia New Zealand Headache Society and Treasurer and Trustee of the World Federation of Neurology. Awards include E Graham Robertson Award for services to Neuroscience and to ANZAN in 2009, the ANZAN Medal for services to Neurology and to ANZAN in 2012 and he became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to neurology and professional organizations in 2019.