Dr Daniyal Daud

Dr Daniyal Daud is a Consultant Neurologist and Stroke Physician, expert witness and Senior Clinical Teacher at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, where he has served as a consultant since 2024. His principal areas of clinical expertise include transient ischaemic attacks, hyperacute and acute stroke care, and in general neurology, he treats patients with headache disorders, blackouts, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, neuromuscular disorders, and functional neurological disorder, whilst maintaining an interest in sleep medicine, cognition and neuro-ophthalmology.

Dr Daud provides comprehensive neurological care for adults across both inpatient and outpatient settings, managing patients with a wide range of acute and chronic neurological conditions. His practice includes the diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular disease throughout the acute and rehabilitation phases, including the delivery of reperfusion therapies, as well as the assessment and management of epilepsy, migraine, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, peripheral neuropathy and other complex neurological disorders. He also has expertise in autoimmune and genetic neurological conditions, neurological infections and spinal cord disorders, supported by experience in clinical research involving stroke, neuroscience, genetics and bioinformatics.

Alongside his clinical practice, Dr Daud plays an active role in undergraduate medical education as an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University Medical School and Senior Clinical Teacher at Sunderland University Medical School. At Sunderland, he also has experience assessing student cases for Fitness to Practice. He has helped develop educational resources for clinicians and participates in regional teaching programmes. His combination of specialist neurological expertise, stroke medicine experience and ongoing academic involvement ensures he remains at the forefront of contemporary neurological practice.

Dr Daniyal Daud has undertaken medico-legal practice since 2025, accepting instructions in clinical negligence and personal injury matters. He acts on behalf of both claimants and defendants, providing independent expert opinion in cases involving a wide range of neurological conditions and cerebrovascular disease. His medico-legal work includes the preparation of screening, breach of duty, causation and condition and prognosis reports, drawing on his expertise in both neurology and stroke medicine.

His instructions commonly relate to the assessment of neurological disorders including stroke, epilepsy, headaches, peripheral neuropathy. Dr Daud combines current consultant-level clinical practice with specialist expertise in acute stroke management and neurological rehabilitation, enabling him to provide clear, balanced and evidence-based opinions on diagnosis, treatment, causation and long-term neurological outcome. His reports are prepared to assist solicitors with complex neurological issues arising in clinical negligence and personal injury litigation.

Dr Daud's clinical practice centres on the assessment, investigation and management of adults with a broad spectrum of neurological disorders across both acute and long-term settings. A significant proportion of his work involves the diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular disease, including the delivery of acute stroke care, reperfusion therapies and ongoing rehabilitation, alongside the evaluation of patients with complex neurological presentations.

Dr Daud regularly diagnoses and manages patients with epilepsy and seizure disorders, movement disorders including Parkinson's disease, headache and migraine syndromes, multiple sclerosis, peripheral neuropathy, motor neurone disease, spinal cord disorders and functional neurological disorder. His day-to-day practice involves investigating complex neurological symptoms, establishing accurate diagnoses and delivering evidence-based treatment plans tailored to individual patients.

In addition to direct patient care, Dr Daud maintains his professional knowledge and skills through reading recently published literature and attending seminars, conferences and regional educational meetings. This breadth of specialist expertise enables him to manage both common and highly complex neurological conditions across a diverse adult patient population.

Dr Daud’s research experience spans stroke, neuroscience, genetics and bioinformatics, including recruiting patients to clinical trials. He is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle Univeristy Medical School, and Senior Clinical Teacher at Sunderland University Medical School. He has contributed educational content for the Buku Medicine clinician resource.