Professor Ruth Dobson

Professor Ruth Dobson is Centre Lead for the Centre of Preventive Neurology at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, QMUL. Her research has a focus on the roles of ethnicity, deprivation, gender and wider social determinants of health in MS, and she is particularly interested in ensuring that all people with MS are represented in research. She led the publication of UK guidelines on pregnancy in MS, and leads the UK MS pregnancy register.

She is Chair of the ABN Advisory Group for MS and neuroinflammation, is a member of the NHS England Neurology clinical reference group, and the UK representative on ECTRIMS Council. She is currently Strategic Lead for Dementia at UCL Partners and is chair of the Cure Parkinson’s Trust Research Committee. She additionally chairs the Research, Culture and Environment committee for the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.

She was identified by the Royal College of Physicians as an Emerging Women Leader in 2020. In 2023 she was awarded the individual MS Brain Health award for her work in pregnancy and MS. Her research has been supported by the NMSS, MS Society, Horne Family Foundation, Barts Charity, BMA Foundation, MRC and NIHR. She has over 140 peer reviewed publications.