Dr. Julian Rodrigues MBBS, FRACPNeurologist

Dr. Julian Rodrigues

Dr Julian Rodrigues (MBBS UWA, 1995; FRACP 2004) is a Neurologist who offers a specialist headache service. Practising primarily at Hollywood Medical Centre & Private Hospital, he also holds positions as a neurologist at the Fiona Stanley Hospital Department of Neurology and Joondalup Health Campus. He is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists (ANZAN), Australian and New Zealand Headache Society (ANZHS) and the International Headache Society.

Dr Rodrigues is committed to ongoing research into the treatment of migraine. Having managed a cohort of over 300 patients with Botulinum Toxin he was the only WA Headache Specialist to take part in the first study showing real world results of PREEMPT injection therapy for chronic migraine which was presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists. With this and other treatments he continues to help chronic migraine sufferers achieve major reductions in migraine frequency and severity. He has published many articles in scientific journals and gives regular education sessions on migraine to GPs, Nurses and students, and is a keen advocate for migraine in the local media.

Grants/Awards/Fellowships

• 2011-13

  CRC for Mental Health; PD Biomarker Study/Australian PD Registry. Project Leader responsible for establishing and maintaining an accurately phenotyped cohort of local PD patients to be included in a new Australian PD Registry – $945,000

• 2006

  Neuroscience Research Grant (Pfizer), Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease Bradykinesia with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation – $51,000

• 2006-8

  Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital PhD Scholarship – $150,000

• 2006-8

  NMHRC Medical Postgraduate Scholarship – $84,000 (declined due to SCGH scholarship)

• 2004-2016

  Honorary Research Fellow, Australian Neuromuscular Research Institute, Centre for Neuromuscular and Neurological Disorders, University Of Western Australia

• 2004

  Australian Neuromuscular Research Institute / Allergan Australia Movement Disorders Fellowship (Supervisors Dr Rick Stell, Prof. Frank Mastaglia, Prof. Gary Thickbroom)