Dr Cock qualified from the University of London in 1989, and also completed her post-graduate and research training in and around London. She is Consultant Neurologist at Atkinson Morley Regional Neuroscience Centre, St Georges NHS Trust in London and Reader in Clinical Neurology at the Medical School. The group provide a full range of diagnostic and management services, including: an epilepsy surgery program; joint transition clinics with paediatric neurology & intellectual disability services; joint clinics with maternal medicine for pregnant women with epilepsy. She has considerable clinical trial experience, provides the adult epilepsy support for the supraregional tuberous sclerosis service and chairs the UK epilepsy research network Interventions & treatment clinical study group. Other particular interests include functional non-epileptic attacks, status epilepticus, epilepsy and the law.