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About Dr Jan Coebergh
Personal Profile
Dr Jan Coebergh is a Consultant Neurologist, specialising in movement disorders (Parkinson’s disease), stroke, migraine and headache, functional neurological symptoms, cognitive and behavioural neurology. He is based at Ashford and St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey, Surrey.
Training and Appointment
Dr Coebergh studied undergraduate medicine at Newcastle University and worked there as a house officer. He undertook his is neurology training in The Hague, The Netherlands.
He has worked as a Consultant Neurologist in at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital NHS Trust since January 2012. He has a specialist Movement Disorders Clinic there and he is also lead for the neurosciences department.
He also works as an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Atkinson Morley Regional Neuroscience Centre at St George's Hospital, Tooting (London) where he is lead for a national clinic in Functional Neurological disorders. He is part of the Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) team at St George’s.
Since 2022, Dr Coebergh has been lead for neurosciences at Surrey Heartlands ICS. He has also been chairman of the Association of British Neurologists Sustainability Interest Group.
He is an Honorary Consultant at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, where he is the Lead Neurologist at the Wilson’s Disease (Research) Clinic. Patients with Wilson's Disease often have symptoms related to the liver and can also have neurological or psychiatric symptoms too.
In his clinical practice he combines his patient care skills with a robust approach to diagnostic work..
Research and Publications
Outside the clinic he has a keen interest in medical education and research, having published extensively in cognitive neurology and neuropsychiatry. He has also completed extensive research on patients with musical hallucinations, auditory agnosia for environmental sounds in Alzheimer’s dementia and functional neurological disorders.
Dr Coebergh has also co-authored a chapter in the prestigious Handbook of Clinical Neurology on consciousness and another chapter on neurological examination in the Oxford Handbook of Neuropsychiatry.
Clinical Interests
- Cognitive and behavioural neurology
- Functional neurological symptoms
- Movement disorders, including deep brain stimulation
- Musical hallucinations
- Wilson's Disease.
Professional Memberships
- Member of British Medical Association
- Member of Association of British Neurologists
- Movement Disorders Society
- British Neuropsychiatry Association
- Founding member Functional Neurological Disorder Society
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
