Marios Hadjivassiliou MD

Prof Marios Hadjivassiliou is an Academic Director, Neuro-inflammation Theme Lead, and Consultant Neurologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Dr. Hadjivassiliou has conducted extensive research into gluten ataxia, having first described the condition in the 1990s after seeing a number of patients with unexplained balance and coordination problems. He began systematically testing these patients for gluten sensitivity using antigliadin antibodies and found a very high prevalence of antibodies in patients with ataxia, suggestive of a heightened immune response to gluten but not necessarily to a diagnosis of celiac disease.