Paediatric speech & language therapy • Development delay • Speech & language disorders • Autism spectrum disorder • Cerebral palsy • Down syndrome

I have special interests in the fields of: • Neuropsychiatry • Affective disorders, including bipolar disorder • Psychiatric disorders following accidents, including post-traumatic stress disorder • Chronic pain • Neuropsychiatric sequelae of head injury • Brain damage in children & adults • Assessment of capacity

I have experience in all areas of neurological rehabilitation. My main area of expertise is the assessment & rehabilitation of brain injury from any cause - many are patients with head injury. I deal with all types of head injury, from mild post-concussive symptoms to severe disability. I also assess & treat patients with spinal cord injury, as well as patients with multiple trauma.

Head injury • Traumatic brain injury • Personal injury • Acquired brain injury • Rehabilitation • Medical negligence • Psychological assessment • Neuropsychological assessment • Cognitive assessment

Ear, nose, throat, head & neck surgery & medicine, including: • Deafness • Tinnitus • Balance disorders • Nasal trauma • Smell disturbance • Sinus problems • Voice problems • Tracheostomy cases • Head & neck cancers & benign tumours • General medical issues, including: • Consent • Communication • Training Additional email: [email protected]

Assessments of adults & children with communication problems • Recommendation, costings & advice for appropriate speech & language therapy • Specialist in swallowing disorders (dysphagia), language disorders (dysphasia) & speech production disorders (dysarthria) • Cognitive language disorders • Also in problems arising from traumatic brain injury. Consulting rooms also in Central London

Assessment and management of patients with organic psychiatric disorders, including acquired brain injury, and progressive neurological conditions like dementia, Huntington’s disease, Tourette's syndrome, complex epilepsy, non-epileptic seizures and conversion/functional neurological disorders • Sleep disorders • Alcohol-related brain injury Consulting address: Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service, Sid Watkins Building, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Lower Lane, Liverpool , L9 7BB

Consultant Neurologist since 1993 • Areas of special expertise: • Headache • Chronic disability • Multiple sclerosis (Highly Commended by MS Society 1999) • Neuropsychiatry (Member of British Neuropsychiatric Association) Also at: (i) 10 Harley Street, London , W1G 9PF. (ii) Spire Wellesley Hospital, Southend , SS2 4XH. (iii) Zen Clinic, 143 London Road, Colchester , CO3 8NZ.

Assessment of neurobehavioural sequelae of traumatic & other forms of brain injury sustained in adulthood for compensation & negligence cases • Assessment of capacity of people sustaining brain injury in adulthood to make informed decisions

General neurosurgery excepting functional and pituitary neurosurgery • Oncology neurosurgery • Head injury • Spinal neurosurgery • Paediatric neurosurgery • Vascular neurosurgery • Degenerative spinal disease • Human factors and mathematical modelling of disease and treatment • Clinical trials Private Secretary: Jennifer Walton - [email protected]

General neurology (disorders of and injuries to the nervous system, i.e. brain, spinal cord, nerves, muscles) • Stroke • Headache • Parkinson's disease • Disorders affecting memory or thinking • Dementia • Capacity assessments • Myasthenia gravis • Motor neurone disease