Honour for Sheffield consultant

A world-leading consultant who is at the forefront of research and treatment into diseases of the nervous system has been named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List.

Professor Pamela Shaw, Consultant Neurologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust and Professor of Neurology at the University of Sheffield, is one of only 16 figures across the country to be given a Damehood in recognition of her extraordinary contribution to neurosciences.

This includes the establishment of the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neurosciences (SITraN), an £18million research facility bringing together 150 international clinicians and scientists to fight crippling diseases such as motor neurone disease.