Chest medicine, general • Sleep medicine

Consultant paediatrician experienced in: • Child abuse (young infants) • Intrapartum care • Perinatal care • Pre-term or low birthweight infant care • Neonatal intensive care • Perinatal & infant physiology • Infant care, general • Delivery room care of normal & high-risk infants • Sudden infant deaths • Fabricated or imposed illness by carers • Sleep physiology in children • Also practises as a Consultant Paediatrician

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 10 years' working experience in psychiatric disorders, with particular expertise in the following: • Neuropsychiatric disorders, particularly those in which amnesia & memory symptoms predominate • Sleep disorders, particularly those with a behavioural element, such as REM sleep disorder, excessive daytime sleepiness • General psychiatric disorders • Insomnia • Narcolepsy

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

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

Sleep-related medico-legal cases, either as an independent single medical expert or in the position of representing the defendant, claimant, prosecutor, CPS, etc. • Falling asleep whilst driving causing injury or death (prosecution, defence cases, coroners) • Falling asleep at work (employment tribunals) • Sleep walking & disturbance causing injury or death & proving or disproving cases of automatism (prosecution, CPS, defence) • Personal injury claims as a result of a driver falling asleep

I have been a consultant at Whipps Cross University Hospital, London, since 2002, and am Programme Director for Specialist Registrar training in NE Thames. I have written reports for solicitors and coroners, given expert evidence in court, and am usually able to write a report within 2 weeks of receiving instructions. I deal with most aspects of respiratory medicine, including breathalyser cases, COPD, asthma, tuberculosis, lung cancer, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism and training issues. ...