Expert-Witness Services in
Psychiatry, Psychology, and Public Health

Résumé

I am a senior clinician and scientist in Psychiatry, Psychology, and Public Health. I have worked as a consultant or expert witness in these fields in the USA, UK, Poland, Norway, and Australia. In addition, I have worked in applied research with academic and first-, second-, and third-sector colleagues in Canada, Sweden, China, India, and Switzerland.

My doctoral training and qualification in Psychiatry was received through the department of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the same in Immunology and Infectious Disease in its department of Microbiology. I am also qualified in Neurology as a sub-speciality relating to neuropsychiatry and neuroimmunology. I completed Post-Doctoral Fellowships in each of these specialties and a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in public health at Boston University School of Public Health.

I have additional professional UK registrations, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC registration PYL22796) in four specialties: Forensic, Health, Counselling, and Clinical Psychology. These relate to about a third of my US qualifications, the other areas being in other aspects of Psychiatry including neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology, and both pharmacology and drug-therapies — in which I have published educational materials for specialist psychiatric physicians — as well as Neurology and Immunology. I am also a Tier 1 (vetted) Expert Witness with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).

Further, I chair an international organisation, the Tuke Institute, which works in medical services’ research and medical policy; as part of my work there, I have acted as an Expert Advisor to the National Institute of Health Research (UK). I am also a reviewer for the British Medical Journal, formerly also for the journals AIDS and Blood, and am on the editorial committee of the International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare. I have lectured in the UK, USA, Poland, Estonia, South Africa, and Norway on forensics as well as medical service-quality and I have published about 80 clinical, scientific, and health-policy papers, almost all as first author.

I have provided expert opinion on both civil and criminal issues including personal injury (e.g., brain-injury), malingering, psychosomatic and idiopathic disorders, PTSD and stress-disorders, depression, anxiety, addictions, personality-disorders, dementias, learning-disabilities, domestic violence, rape and sexual abuse, violence- and sexual-risk assessment, divorce, immigration and asylum-seeking, hate-crimes, workplace-bullying, occupational health, fitness to work, disability, physicians’ fitness to practise, medical negligence, police-harassment, illegal imprisonment, terrorism, and murder.