Emeritus Professor John Pollard

Emeritus Professor
Medicine, Central Clinical School

D06 - Blackburn Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

T:	+61 2 9351 3385
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Biographical details

Professor Pollard has an international reputation in the fields of neuropathy and multiple sclerosis. He was Bushell Professor of Neurology, University of Sydney until 2008 and remains Co-Director of the Nerve Research Foundation and a Director of the Brain Mind Research Institute. He is a member of the steering Committee of the World Federation of Neurology and a past-board member of the Peripheral Nerve Society. He remains Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Board of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society of Australia and Chairman of the MS Interest Group within Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurology. In 2005 he was awarded an AO for his contributions to neurology and in particular to multiple sclerosis. He is also a Board member of the Institute of Neuromuscular Research at the Childrens Hospital, Westmead.

Current national competitive grants*

2009

The Mechanism of Action of IVIg in Inflammatory Neuropathy
Pollard J, Wang M
NHMRC Project Grants ($434,700 over 3 years)

2008

Neural plasticity following lesions of the central nervous system in Multiple Sclerosis
Burke D, Pollard J, Ng K
NHMRC Project Grant ($502,750 over 3 years)

Mechanisms of autoantibody mediated axonal injury in inflammatory demyelinating neuropathies
Pollard J, Mathey E, Burke D
NHMRC Project Grant ($557,250 over 3 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney

Keywords

Motor neuron disease; Multiple sclerosis; Neurosciences

Publications

2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

2009

Barnett, M., Parratt, J., Pollard, J., Prineas, J. MS: is it one disease?. International MS journal / MS Forum. 2009; 16:57-65. [Abstract]
Brown, R., Valpiani, E., Tennant, C., Dunn, S., Sharrock, M., Hodgkinson, S., Pollard, J. Longitudinal assessment of anxiety, depression, and fatigue in people with multiple sclerosis. Psychology and psychotherapy. 2009; 82:41-56. [Abstract]
Lincoln, J., Cadavid, D., Pollard, J., McLeod, J., Prineas, J., Dowling, P., Cook, S. We should use magnetic resonance imaging to classify and monitor the course of multiple sclerosis. Archives of Neurology. 2009; 66:412-414. [Abstract]

2008

Vallat, J., Ouvrier, R., Pollard, J., Magdelaine, C., Zhu, D., Nicholson, G., Grew, S., Ryan, M., Funalot, B. Histopathological Findings in Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy of Axonal Type With Onset in Early Childhood Associated With Mitofusin 2 Mutations. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology. 2008; 67:1097-102. [Abstract]
Ng, K., Howells, J., Pollard, J., Burke, D. Up-regulation of slow K+ channels in peripheral motor axons: a transcriptional channelopathy in multiple sclerosis. Brain : a journal of neurology. 2008; 131:3062-71. [Abstract]
Arthur, A., Armati, P., Bye, C., , S., Heard, R., Stewart, G., Pollard, J., Booth, D. Genes implicated in multiple sclerosis pathogenesis from consilience of genotyping and expression profiles in relapse and remission. BMC Medical Genetics. 2008; 9:17. [Abstract]

2007

Lin, H., Spies, J., Lu, J., Pollard, J. Effective treatment of experimental autoimmune neuritis with human immunoglobulin. Journal of the neurological sciences. 2007; 256:61-67. [Abstract]
Lin, H., Wang, M., Spies, J., Pollard, J. Effective treatment of experimental autoimmune neuritis with Fc fragment of human immunoglobulin. Journal of neuroimmunology. 2007; 186:133-140. [Abstract]
Taylor, J., Pollard, J. Soluble TNFR1 inhibits the development of experimental autoimmune neuritis by modulating blood-nerve-barrier permeability and inflammation. Journal of neuroimmunology. 2007; 183:118-24. [Abstract]
Armati, P., Linington, C., Pollard, J., Rasband, M., Willison, H., Mathey, E., Williams, K. Neurofascin: A target for antibody mediated axonal injury in peripheral neuropathies. JOURNAL OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. 2007; 12:56-56. [Abstract]
Pollard, J. Chronic idiopathic demyelinating polyneuropathy and Schwann cells. In: The Biology of Schwann Cells. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 2007. p. 171-184.

2006

Lu, J., Vallat, J., Pollard, J., Knoops, B., Ouvrier, R. Expression of the antioxidant enzyme peroxiredoxin 5 in the human peripheral nervous system. Journal of the peripheral nervous system : JPNS. 2006; 11:318-324. [Abstract]
Kappos, L., Traboulsee, A., Constantinescu, C., Eralinna, J., Forrestal, F., Jongen, P., Pollard, J., Sandberg-Wollheim, M., Sindic, C., Stubinski, B., Uitdehaag, B., Li, D. Long-term subcutaneous interferon beta-1a therapy in patients with relapsing-remitting MS. Neurology. 2006; 67:944-953. [Abstract]
van Schaik, I., Bouche, P., Illa, I., Leger, J., Van den Bergh, P., Cornblath, D., Evers, E., Hadden, R., Hughes, R., Koski, C., Nobile-Orazio, E., Pollard, J., Sommer, C., Doorn, P. European Federation of Neurological Societies Peripheral Nerve Society guideline on management of multifocal motor neuropathy. European Journal of Neurology. 2006; 13:802-808. [Abstract]
Brown, R., Tennant, C., Sharrock, M., Hodgkinson, S., Dunn, S., Pollard, J. Relationship between stress and relapse in multiple sclerosis: part I. Important features. Multiple Sclerosis. 2006; 12:453-464. [Abstract]
Hadden, R., Nobile-Orazio, E., Sommer, C., Hahn, A., Illa, I., Morra, E., Pollard, J., Hughes, R., Bouche, P., Cornblath, D., Evers, E., Koski, C., Leger, J., Van den Bergh, P., van Doorn, P., Schaik, I. European Federation of Neurological Societies Peripheral Nerve Society guideline on management of paraproteinaemic demyelinating neuropathies: report of a joint task force of the European Federation of Neurological Societies and the Peripheral Nerve Society. European Journal of Neurology. 2006; 13:809-818. [Abstract]
Brown, R., Tennant, C., Sharrock, M., Hodgkinson, S., Dunn, S., Pollard, J. Relationship between stress and relapse in multiple sclerosis: part II. Direct and indirect relationships. Multiple Sclerosis. 2006; 12:465-475. [Abstract]
Hughes, R., Bouche, P., Cornblath, D., Evers, E., Hadden, R., Hahn, A., Illa, I., Koski, C., Leger, J., Nobile-Orazio, E., Pollard, J., Sommer, C., Van den Bergh, P., van Doorn, P., van Schaik, I., Mehndiratta, M., Hughes, R., Winer, J., de Haan, R., Vermeulen, M., Agarwal, P. European Federation of Neurological Societies Peripheral Nerve Society guideline on management of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy: report of a joint task force of the European Federation of Neurological Societies and the Peripheral Nerve Society (Reprinted from Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, vol 10, pg 220-228, 2005). European Journal of Neurology. 2006; 13:326-332. [Abstract]

2005

Spring, P., Kok, C., Nicholson, G., Ing, A., Spies, J., Bassett, M., Cameron, J., Kerlin, P., Bowler, S., Tuck, R., Pollard, J. Autosomal dominant hereditary sensory neuropathy with chronic cough and gastro-oesophageal reflux: clinical features in two families linked to chromosome 3p22-p24. Brain; a journal of neurology. 2005; 128:2797-810. [Abstract]
Booth, D., Arthur, A., Teutsch, S., Bye, C., Rubio, J., Armati, P., Pollard, J., Heard, R., Stewart, G., , T. Gene expression and genotyping studies implicate the interleukin 7 receptor in the pathogenesis of primary progressive multiple sclerosis. Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany). 2005; 83:822-30. [Abstract]
Kim, P., Ashton, D., Pollard, J. Isolated hypoglycorrachia: leptomeningeal carcinomatosis causing subacute confusion. Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. 2005; 12:841-3. [Abstract]
Brown, R., Tennant, C., Dunn, S., Pollard, J. A review of stress-relapse interactions in multiple sclerosis: important features and stress-mediating and -moderating variables. Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England). 2005; 11:477-84. [Abstract]
Pollard, J., Hughes, R., Hartung, H. Principles of Immunotherapy. In: Peripheral Neuropathy. United States: Elsevier Saunders 2005. p. 635-649.
Pollard, J. Neuropathy in Diseases of the Thyroid and Pituitary Glands. In: Peripheral Neuropathy Edit IV. United States: Elsevier Saunders 2005. p. 2039-2051.

2004

Wilmshurst, J., Wise, G., Pollard, J., Ouvrier, R. Chronic axonal neuropathy with triosephosphate isomerase deficiency. Pediatric neurology. 2004; 30:146-8. [Abstract]
Mathey, E., Pollard, J., Armati, P. In situ hybridization for cytokines in human tissue biopsies. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2004; 249:41-6. [Abstract]

2003

Taylor, J., Pollard, J. Neurophysiological changes in demyelinating and axonal forms of acute experimental autoimmune neuritis in the Lewis rat. Muscle & nerve. 2003; 28:344-352. [Abstract]
Kok, C., Kennerson, M., Spring, P., Ing, A., Pollard, J., Nicholson, G. A locus for hereditary sensory neuropathy with cough and gastroesophageal reflux on chromosome 3p22-p24. American journal of human genetics. 2003; 73:632-637. [Abstract]
Wilmshurst, J., Pollard, J., Nicholson, G., Antony, J., Ouvrier, R. Peripheral neuropathies of infancy. Developmental medicine and child neurology. 2003; 45:408-414. [Abstract]
Pollard, J., Ouvrier, R. Chronic axonal neuropathy with triophosphate isomerase deficiency. Pediatric Neurology. 2003; 30 (2):146-148.
Cheng, E., Pollard, J., Koch, R. Effect of blended CO2 and erbium:YAG laser irradiation on normal and keloid fibroblasts: a serum-free study. Journal of Clinical Laser Medicine and Surgery. 2003; 21 (6):337-343.

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