Dr Paul Holmes is a Consultant Neurologist at Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King's College Hospital. He leads the general neurology service at Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals and sees patients with all common neurological presentations, including migraine, dizziness, vertigo, blackouts, and symptoms of tingling, numbness, and weakness. His main work is in providing an acute liaison neurology service, with a particular interest in stroke, headache, intensive care neurology, and the neurology of HIV infection. He is often asked to provide a second opinion for patients with complex presentations, especially stroke and TIA.

Dr Holmes trained at the University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, and came to the UK in 1991, where he completed his specialist training in neurology at Guy's & St. Thomas', King's, and the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square. He obtained an MD in TIA and stroke imaging at the University of London in 2000 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 2005.