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

General neurosurgery • Pituitary neurosurgery • Skull base neurosurgery • Endoscopic neurosurgery • Neuro-oncology • Paediatric neurosurgery • Trauma/traumatic brain injury Prepared to work for the claimant or defendant, or as an SJE.

Dr Bavikatte has wide experience managing patients in acute and sub-acute hospital units and in community settings. His specialisms include traumatic brain injury, minimally conscious state, post-concussion syndrome, mild brain injury, acute neurorehabilitation, polytrauma rehabilitation, spasticity and prognosis and life expectancy.

Also consulting at: 88 Rodney Street, LIVERPOOL, L1 9AR Neurology, general • Head injury • Traumatic brain injury (TBI) • Spinal cord injury • Cervical injuries • High altitude & mountain medicine • Epilepsy • Multiple sclerosis • Cold injury • Medical negligence • General medico-legal work • Disability assessments • Genuineness of complaints • Stroke • Parkinson's disease • Motor neurone disease • Brain tumours • Whiplash injuries • Subarachnoid haemorrhage • Meningitis • Sequelae of anaesthetic accidents • Health fraud

All aspects of neurology • Neurological consequences of head and spinal injury • Epilepsy, blackouts and other causes of loss of awareness • Memory problems, dementias and other cognitive disorders

Mr Phillips' clinical interests are in endoscopic skull base surgery, cranial neurosurgery, particularly pituitary surgery, trigeminal neuralgia, subarachnoid haemorrhage and radiosurgery. He has also contributed to national policy in radiosurgery.

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]

Spinal surgery • General neurosurgery • Head injury • Skull base surgery, including acoustic neuroma management and meningiomas • Chiari malformation and syringomyelia - from all causes • Trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm and glossopharyngeal neuralgia • Intradural spinal tumours

Adult neurosurgery: hydrocephalus, trauma/head injury Paediatric neurosurgery: trauma/head injury, hydrocephalus, brain tumours, spinal tumours, spinal injury, spinal dysraphism, cranial dysraphism, intrathecal baclofen pumps, intracranial infection, intraspinal infection

Brain injury • Brain injury sequelae • Traumatic brain injury (TBI) • Head injury • Concussion

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

1. Clinical neuropsychology • Assessment & diagnoses of brain functioning following head injury, post-concussive state, dementia & other neurological disorders 2. Psychometric testing (learning disability, general adult & older adult populations), including: assessment of intelligence (IQ), memory testing & other cognitive functioning 3. Neurorehabilitation following brain injury & other neurological conditions 4. Psychiatric diagnoses , in particular medico-legal assessment of PTSD, adjustment disorders, depression,...