Kidney cancer • Prostate cancer • Bladder cancer • Head cancer • Neck cancer • Immunotherapy • Targeted therapy • Chemotherapy • Radiotherapy

Personal injury involving the head & neck • Acoustic trauma • Cancer of the head, neck & throat • Deafness • Traumatic deafness • Ear injuries • Ear surgery • Head injury - ENT complications • Throat infections • Otolaryngology negligence • Neck injury • Member of the Expert Witness Institute • Cardiff University Certificate as Expert Witness in Civil Law Additional email: [email protected]

Oral & maxillofacial surgery • Facial trauma • Facial pain • Salivary gland disease • Head & neck oncology

I provide well-constructed, evidence-based, expert reports for clinical negligence and personal injury claims across the range of general elective and emergency neurosurgical practice. I have particular expertise in head injuries, cauda equina syndrome and surgical neuro-oncology. Areas of medico-legal expertise: • Adult elective and emergency neurosurgery • Head injury • Brain tumour diagnosis and management • Cauda equina syndrome

Clinical negligence • Tinnitus • Noise-induced hearing loss • Facial injuries • Head & neck cancer • Thyroid surgery • Vertigo • Smell disorders • Ear, nose & throat surgery • Head & neck surgery • Nasal injuries & fractures • Voice disorders Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate (Civil & Criminal)

Dentoalveolar surgery • Oral surgery • Facial cosmetics (facelift, blepharoplasty, browlift, rhinoplasty, Botox fillers) • TMJ disorders • Head & neck surgery: neck lumps (cancer, neck dissection, free flaps, thyroidectomy) • Facial skin cancer (BCC, SCC, facial melanoma, skin grafts, local flaps) • Salivary glands (submandibular, parotid, sialolithiasis) • Facial trauma (mandible, zygoma, orbit, nasal, maxillary fractures) • Orthognathic surgery - facial deformity • Laser treatment for facial/intraoral conditions Panayiotis...

• Former Examiner in Surgery, London University, former Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Royal Free & University College Medical School • Chief Medical Advisor, UK Medical Consultants Ltd – http://www.UKMedicalConsultants.co.uk Medical Legal Expert Reports 1. Surgical oncology • Diagnostic endoscopy: cancer diagnosis and management, risk factors and cancer inheritance syndromes • Primary diagnosis – malignant lesions of head and neck, breast, gut/bowel/gastroenterology, skin, urology, gynaecology, lung, sarcoma,...

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]

Ear, nose & throat surgery • Head & neck cancer • Head & neck tumour surgery • Thyroid surgery • Salivary gland disease • Laser surgery • Voice & swallowing disorders • Noise-induced hearing loss • Facial plastic surgery

Orthognathic surgery: correction of jaw abnormalities and facial asymmetry • Facial trauma management • Facial reconstructive surgery • Oral cancer surgery • Dental implant surgery • Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders • Corrective jaw surgery • Cleft lip and palate repair • Facial cosmetic surgery, including rhinoplasty and facial implants • Obstructive sleep apnoea surgery • Salivary gland surgery All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 13 Park Terrace, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, SA31 3DG.

Neurology • Whiplash • Head injury • Muscle injury • Nerve injury • Neurogenetics • Headache • Migraine • Epilepsy • Stroke • Neuropathy • Neuropathic pain • Neuromuscular disorders • Neurological diseases & disorders • Neurodegenerative diseases • Muscular pain & disorders • Brain injury, diseases & disorders Also at: (i) Department of Neurology, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden City , Hertfordshire, AL7 4HQ. (ii) Spire Harpenden Hospital, Ambrose Lane, Harpenden , Hertfordshire, AL5 4BP. (iii) Wellington Hospital, London , NW8 9LE. (iv)...

ENT surgery • Voice, swallowing, breathing • Head and neck cancer • Tracheal disorders and tracheostomy • Neck lumps • Accidental damage to ears, nose and throat, including tinnitus and deafness

All common/general ear, nose and sinus conditions (not paediatric) • ENT and airway emergencies • Head and neck, facial and airway trauma/injury, including tracheostomy • Voice and swallowing problems • Thyroid and parathyroid surgery • Head and neck lump/cancer diagnostics and surgery • Robotic and endoscopic head and neck and thyroid surgery • I have a special expertise in thyroid cancer and thyroid surgery, as well as complex head and neck problems

Mr Patel covers a full range of oral and maxillofacial surgery treatments. However, his special interests lie in head and neck cancer and salivary gland pathology. He has a busy clinical practice with weekly sessions at Wythenshawe, Christie and Stepping Hill hospitals. Mr Patel also has further interests in reconstructive facial surgery, salivary gland surgery, facial deformity, oral surgery, oral lesions, facial pain and dental implants.

General cranial neurosurgery • Skull base surgery • Acoustic neuroma surgery • Brain tumours • Neuro-oncology • Neurotrauma • Head injury • Traumatic brain injury • Cerebral abscess • Intracerebral haemorrhage • Subarachnoid haemorrhage • Hydrocephalus • Chiari malformation NHS employment: Consultant Neurosurgeon, University Hospital Birmingham, UK Additional email: [email protected]

General neurosurgery • Neurovascular neurosurgery • Neurosurgical trauma • Head injuries

Neurosurgery • Surgical conditions of the brain and spine, head injury and spinal injury. Having 17 years' consultant experience in all aspects of neurosurgery, I am qualified to provide an opinion on most aspects of spinal and cranial conditions and treatments. My particular clinical interests are endoscopic pituitary region surgery, degenerative spinal surgery, including instrumentation, and endoscopic ventricular surgery. I have significant medico-legal experience and have been cross-examined in the Coroners...

Delay in diagnosis of cancer • Tumour growth rates • Radiotherapy & chemotherapy

Maxillofacial surgery • Oral surgery • Facial surgery • Head & neck surgery • Head & neck cancer • Head & neck reconstruction • Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) surgery • Dental implants • Facial implants • Trauma • Fractures • Dental trauma • Facial trauma • Facial fractures • Jaw fractures • Orbital fractures

General otorhinolaryngology with a subspecialty interest in: • Head & neck oncology • Voice & swallowing disorders • Salivary gland & thyroid surgery • Acquired hearing loss Also consulting in London at: (i) West End Medical Practice, Marylebone, NW1 6SN. (ii) Resource for London, Holloway Road, N7 6PA.

Areas of interest include personal injury and clinical negligence claims involving cranial and spinal neurosurgery. Specifically this includes: • Head injury • Neck and back injury • Spinal surgery • Cranial surgery • Neuro-oncology • Skull base surgery • Vascular surgery and subarachnoid haemorrhage • Meningioma surgery • Whiplash. Consulting face to face in Sheffield and Manchester.

Consultant Stroke Neurologist working in hyperacute & acute stroke services at St George's Hospital, involved in thrombolysis & thrombectomy service provision • Secondary stroke prevention care (inpatient & outpatient) • General neurology: mainly outpatient neurology clinics (two a week) seeing about 24 new patients a month with a variety of neurological symptoms & diagnosis. Also some inpatient neurology work seeing ward referrals & acute neurology admissions (these could range from infection/cancer to autoimmune...

Professor Kavin Andi is a Consultant Maxillo-Facial Surgeon specialising in ablative and reconstructive head and neck cancer surgery at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London. Professor Andi’s areas of interest include augmented reality, robotic surgery and 3D virtual surgical planning, for which he was awarded the prestigious Norman Rowe Clinical Prize by the British Association of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgeons (2012).

Clinical interests focus on: • Neurosurgical oncology of the brain and spinal cord • Surgery for cranial neuropathies (trigeminal, glossopharyngeal, geniculate neuralgias; hemifacial spasm) • Complex spinal surgery He also focuses on: • Degenerative disorders of the lumbar spine and cervical spine • Surgeries for facial pain and cranial nerve hyperactive disorders • Brain tumours • Spinal cord tumours • Disorders of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics • Disorders of the cranio-cervical junction

Head and neck oncology (including diagnosis, rates of growth, MDT management, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, prognosis) • Breast oncology (including diagnosis, molecular phenotypes, rates of growth, MDT management, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, prognosis)

Minimally invasive neurosurgery • Management of skull base tumours • Vascular pathologies, including endoscopic endonasal approaches and cerebral revascularisations All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 13 Park Terrace, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, SA31 3DG.

Histopathology of gastrointestinal diseases, lymphoma & skin tumours, head & neck cancer & breast cancer

Expertise in general oncology • Particular expertise in skin cancer, thyroid cancer, head & neck cancer, breast cancer & pain control in cancer patients • Occupational carcinogenesis