Dr Lisa Clayton
Dr Lisa Clayton is a Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy at the UCL Institute of Neurology and the Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy.
Background
Dr Lisa Clayton studied medicine at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Medical School, London. She first came to Chalfont as a medical student in 2007 staying for four years to complete a PhD with the Epilepsy Group at The UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Chalfont Centre. After finishing her medical training, she returned to Chalfont in 2020 to undertake a post-doctoral clinical research fellowship in epilepsy genetics.
Research interests
Clinical and research interests focus on early-onset severe epilepsies, particularly genetic epilepsies, and their long-term impact in adulthood, including treatment responses, health outcomes, and quality of life.
Areas of supervision
Specialist epilepsy genomics clinic and a Dravet syndrome clinic at Chalfont. Awarded an Epilepsy Research Institute & Dravet Syndrome UK Emerging Leader Fellowship in 2025 to explore autonomic dysfunction in adults with Dravet syndrome.
Publications
Neuroimaging
Neuroimaging enables us to look deep inside the brain to learn more about the impact of seizures on its structure and function.
Research
The ultimate goals of our current research are to spearhead personalised treatment and to incorporate genomic diagnosis into the NHS for people with epilepsy.
Genomics
Read how we are working to understand the genetic architecture of each individual person's epilepsy through our world leading genomics research programme.