Elspeth Hutton

Dr Hutton completed her undergraduate training at The University of Tasmania, obtaining her MBBS in 2000. She undertook specialist training in Neurology at The Alfred Hospital and Monash Medical Centre before being awarded the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists Fellowship at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), London. Following a 6-month Fellowship in Headache at NHNN, she joined the MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, where she completed her PhD examining neuroimmune mechanisms in pain. Dr Hutton returned to the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne in 2012 where she has established a headache service which has grown to be the largest in Australia. The clinical service is closely tied to our Monash headache research group and clinical trials unit. Dr Hutton also serves on the council of the Australian and New Zealand Headache Society.