Professor Sharrack is a Consultant Neurologist at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Tryst and an Honorary Professor of Clinical Neurology at the University of Sheffield. He is the Director of the Sheffield MS Research Clinic and the NIHR Sheffield BRC Neuro-inflammation Lead.
Professor Sharrack was trained at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCL, London and was awarded a PhD from King’s College, London.
His principal academic areas of interest are neuro inflammation and degeneration with reference to multiple sclerosis, therapeutic clinical trials in multiple sclerosis, autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in multiple sclerosis, and cognitive rehabilitation in multiples sclerosis. He has over 100 peer reviewed original articles (10,049 citations; H-Index 41).
Over the years, he has played a leading role in the design and conduct of clinical trials in multiple sclerosis including the first phase III Autologous Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation treatment in this condition.