Respiratory diseases, including asthma, asbestosis, bronchitis, emphysema & mesotheliomal tumour • Environmental factors, including fugitive gas emissions, irritants, carbon monoxide poisoning & toxicology • Occupational disease, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • Drink driving, failure to give breath sample due to medical impairment • Musculoskeletal disease • Hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) ...

Problems encountered by patients with chest disease using breath alcohol measuring devices • The correct choices of antibiotics for chest infections • The management of acute chest diseases • Diagnosis & treatment of asthma • Occupational chest diseases, including asthma, asbestosis & mesothelioma ...

Exposure to chemicals • Dust • Fumes • Health effects of chemicals • Spillages • Respiratory effects • Asthma • Dust diseases • Asbestos • Welding fumes, gases & hazards • Brazing & soldering hazards • Poisoning by lead & other metals • Organic solvents • Acid & alkali risks • Pesticides • Sick building syndrome • Respiratory & skin sensitisers • Photographic processing hazards • Radiography • Radioactive substances • Radiation hazards • Workplace & environmental air contaminants • Air sampling • Ventilation • Respiratory protective ...

Health & safety in general, & occupational health in particular, e.g. dust, vapour, gas, biological cases, infectious diseases, allergies, asthma, machinery safety • Previously employed as HM Inspector of Factories, HM Specialist Inspector (Occupational Hygiene) & Occupational Hygiene Manager, BNFL, Sellafield

Occupational lung disease • Chest trauma • Respiratory disability • Asbestos-induced lung disease • Lung disease as a result of coal mining • Occupational asthma • Evidential breath alcohol analysis - failure to provide

All aspects of chest, lung & respiratory disease, including: • Asthma • Chronic bronchitis • Emphysema • Lung cancer • Tuberculosis • Sarcoidosis • Fibrosing alveolitis

Chest medicine, general • Sleep medicine

I am able to provide reports & appear as an expert witness in the following areas: • Respiratory medicine, including occupational lung disease, asbestosis, mesothelioma, etc. • Intensive care medicine, all areas of critical illness • General medical topics

Occupational hygiene • Risk assessments • Asbestos • Air sampling • Respiratory problems (asthma) from exposure to dust, solvents, gases, vapours, isocyanates & effects on skin (dermatitis) • Site inspections for exposure to hazardous substances • Production of engineer reports, etc.

Occupational asthma • Effects of dusts on the lung, including asbestos, coal dust, silica, etc. • Treatment & prevention of tuberculosis • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • Pharmacology & therapeutics in respiratory disorders • Lung cancer • Vocal cord dysfunction • Dysfunctional ventilation • Certificate of Expert Witness Accreditation ...

Negligence & malpractice in respiratory & general medicine • Asthma • Asthma management issues • Asthma death • All areas of lung disease • Occupational lung disease • Asbestos-related lung disease

Respiratory medicine • Asbestos-related lung disease • Asthma, including occupational asthma • Inhalation accidents • Lung disorders related to rheumatological & immunological disorders • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • Fibrotic lung diseases • Lung cancer diagnosis & epidemiology

Consultant Physician specialising in: • Thoracic medicine • Chest diseases • Industrial lung disease • Asbestos-related disease • Asthma • Chronic obstructive lung disease • Heart lung disease

All aspects of paediatric respiratory disease • Previous cases include: • Delays in diagnosis & mismanagement of children with cystic fibrosis, asthma, inhaled foreign bodies, pneumonia, relationship of housing conditions to symptoms & suffocation risk in relation to certain toys

I have been a full-time general practitioner for the last 10 years • I have a personal list of 2,200 patients & complete nine surgeries a week • I have been involved in medico-legal reporting for the last 10 years • I undertake approximately 40 reports a month ...

Industrial lung disease • Occupational asthma • Asbestosis • Respiratory diseases • Lung injury • Bronchitis • Emphysema • Pulmonary function testing • Medical negligence

Matters concerning diseases, disorders or normal functions of the lungs & /or pleura (linings of the lung), as well as the chest wall in relation to breathing, for example: • Asthma (including occupational asthma) • Chronic bronchitis & emphysema • Mesothelioma • Tuberculosis & other mycobacterial lung diseases • Pneumonia • Pleurisy • Pulmonary embolism • Bronchiectasis • Pneumoconioses (asbestos, coal-workers', silicosis) • Asbestos-induced pleural disease • Lung cancer • Cystic fibrosis

All aspects of respiratory medicine • Occupational diseases such as, occupational asthma, asbestos-related diseases & other pneumoconiosis • All aspects of general medicine • Life expectancy & prognosis

Personal injury

Expertise in all fields of respiratory medicine, including occupational respiratory conditions • Particular experience in asbestos-related respiratory complaints • Other clinical interests include lung cancer, sleep-disordered breathing & chronic ventilatory failure

Expert in asbestos-related lung disease claims • Also specialises in respiratory disorders, e.g. breathalyser claims

General medicine & respiratory medicine • Clinical respiratory physiology • Asthma • The interface of heart & lung diseases

Consultant Paediatrician with 14 years' experience of treating sick children • Happy to receive instructions in the following areas: obstetrics/birth injury, neonatal medicine, cerebral palsy, child development, respiratory diseases in childhood, including bronchial asthma • General paediatric medical problems • Writes expert witness reports for solicitors both internally in hospital & externally • Regularly gives evidence in the coroners court

Experienced respiratory physician can provide expert reports promptly in the areas of: • Asbestos-related lung disease (asbestosis, mesothelioma, diffuse pleural thickening) • Occupational asthma • Breathalyser cases • COPD • Tuberculosis • Sleep apnoea • Internal medicine where a generalist opinion is required • Medical negligence

All respiratory & chest diseases, including: • Lung cancer of all types & causes • Mesothelioma & asbestos claims • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • Asthma, including occupational disease • Breathlessness & disorders of lung physiology & functioning • Assessment & quantification of limitation of functioning due to breathing • Tuberculosis • I have a broad training in both respiratory & general medicine & can offer opinion on a wide variety of different conditions, including assessment of claimants with ...

I am a respiratory and general medicine consultant working at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust. I am also a senior lecturer in the University of Southampton and run a research group investigating respiratory infections and immunity. My main field of expertise is in airways disease (chronic obstruction pulmonary disease and asthma). I have a specialist interest in industrial lung disease - occupational asthma, asbestos-related lung diseases and pneumoconiosis.

Diagnosis & management of acute & chronic respiratory & chest illnesses in children, including asthma, cystic fibrosis, pneumonia & other respiratory infections • Advisor to several national bodies on children's respiratory problems • Medicolegal expert for 25 years, with over 400 cases of alleged negligence in care of children with respiratory illness or personal injury claims • Fully familiar with the duties of expert witnesses under Civil Procedure Rules, including Oct 2009 revisions

A Consultant Respiratory Physician at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust • Assessment of asbestos-related diseases, including pleural plaques, asbestosis, pleural thickening, mesothelioma & lung cancer • Pulmonary fibrosis • Pulmonary vascular disease, including venous thromboembolism (deep vein thrombosis & pulmonary embolus) • Asthma & chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • Respiratory infections • Chest injury • Breathalyser cases

I specialise in using toxicological approaches to determine how likely a chemical or dust exposure is to have caused a claimed disease or episode of ill-health. For example, I have opined on whether exposure to chemicals in cleaners was likely to have been associated with asthma & whether working with asbestos was likely to be the cause of an individual developing mesothelioma. I am able to give an opinion on these matters based on comparing the known exposure/response relationship for any ...

Medical conditions caused or possibly caused or exacerbated by work activity or exposure • The effects of chemicals on human health • The health effects of chemical emissions & discharges • The possible exposure level to chemicals in different scenarios & the risk or effects therefrom • Hazard & risk assessment & communication • Management systems for health risk reduction ...

Occupational hygiene • Industrial disease litigation • Pollution, atmospheric • Safety, chemical • Safety at work

Lung, respiratory & thoracic diseases • Occupational lung disease, e.g. asbestos-related • Legionnaires' disease • Lung infections • Asthma

Care of patients in general practice • Fitness for work • Sickness absence from work • Work-related health problems ...

General occupational medicine • Disability discrimination law