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Professor Keith Rix
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Professor Keith Rix, BMedBiol (Hons), MPhil, LLM, MD, FRCPsych, Hon FFFLM
Professor Keith Rix is a consultant forensic psychiatrist. His involvement in the forensic field began in the 1960’s when he lived in hostels in London with ex-offenders and assessed prisoners for hostel admission. He moved to Leeds as senior lecturer in psychiatry in 1983 and became a visiting consultant psychiatrist at HM Prison, Leeds. He established the Leeds Magistrates’ Court Mental Health Assessment and Diversion Scheme and the city’s forensic psychiatry service. He has provided expert evidence to the courts for over 35 years, including evidence on a pro bono basis in capital cases in the Caribbean and Africa, and he is the author of Expert Psychiatric Evidence (second edition due for publication in 2020) and lead author of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ report Responsibilities of psychiatrists who provide expert opinion to courts and tribunals.
He is also the editor of A Handbook for Trainee Psychiatrists and co-author, with his wife Elizabeth Lumsden Rix, of Alcohol Problems. He is on the Executive Council of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences and he is an associate editor of its journal Medicine, Science and the Law. He is also on the editorial board of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ CPD journal BJPsych Advances and to which he is a frequent contributor of papers on medicolegal subjects. He is a former Chairman of the Fitness to Practise Panel of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal and part-time lecturer in the Department of Law, De Montfort University, Leicester. He is now Visiting Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, School of Medicine, University of Chester, and Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist in the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. In 2015 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and he is now its Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Lead. He lives in Norfolk where he enjoys game cookery, bird watching, walking, jazz, opera and teaching his grandchildren the elements of marine engineering with a bucket and spade on North Norfolk’s beaches.
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Professor Derick Wade
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Professor Derick Wade
Professor In Neurorehabilitation
Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Professor Derick Wade is Consultant in Neurological Rehabilitation and has been a Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University since 2007.
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Dr Tania Gergel
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Dr Tania Gergel
Dr Tania Gergel is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. She is leading a team focusing on advance decision making in bipolar disorder within the Wellcome Trust Mental Health and Justice Research project. The team advised on the recent Independent Review of the Mental Health Act and are currently working with the Department of Health and Social Care on reforms to the MHA in relation to advance decision-making. Although Tania’s academic background was in ancient philosophy, her research now focuses on mental health, ethics and law, with areas of interest including: advance decision-making and decision making-capacity; the ethics of coercion and leverage within psychiatry; personal identity and mental disorder; and stigma.
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Mr Francis Lyons
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Francis Lyons
Francis is a partner in the Public Law team at Capsticks. He advises on legal issues arising from the commissioning, planning and delivery of health and social care. Francis is recognised as an expert in mental health and mental capacity law. His recent MHA cases include ‘Munjaz’, in which the European Court described the seclusion policy he advised on as “exemplary” when allowing a departure from the Code of Practice, and the ‘Haines’ matter in which Francis represented Broadmoor Hospital in the first ever reported public tribunal hearing. His advice on the unlawful delegation of the Secretary of State’s s.12 MHA approval functions to an FT, resulted in emergency legislation in 2013. Francis has worked on secondment with a local authority, and as a member of a Foundation Trust Board’s MHA committee.
Francis is the Course Director for the Complanies Open University accredited Diploma in Clinical Risk and Claims Management. In addition to the support he provides to clients on policy development and decision making, Francis also advises on judicial review challenges, complaints, incident handling and the disclosure of information. Francis is ranked as leading solicitor in independent legal directories.
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Mr Alex Ruck-Keene
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Alex Ruck-Keene
Alex Ruck Keene is an experienced barrister, writer and educator. His practice is focused on mental capacity and mental health law, in which he is able to provide specialist advice and representation, as well as delivering expert training for front line professionals. He also writes extensively in the field, editing and contributing to leading textbooks and (amongst many other publications) the 39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Law Report, the ‘bible’ for solicitors (and others) working in the area. He is the creator of the website http://www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/, providing resources and expert commentary on some of the most difficult mental capacity issues.
Alex is a Wellcome Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London, a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London and a Research Affiliate at the Essex Autonomy Project, University of Essex. He spent 2016 on secondment to the Law Commission as a consultant to their Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty Project and throughout 2018 was legal adviser to the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983.
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Dr Farshad Shaddel
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Dr Farshad Shaddel
Farshad Shaddel is a consultant psychiatrist, Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy and a member of the CASC Panel at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is the director of the Oxford Centre of Medical Education and has led the Developing Learning & Teaching for medical educators programme (DLT Med Eds., a postgraduate qualification accredited by the Academy of Medical educators - AoME) since April 2019. Farshad has done his postgraduate qualification in leadership and teaching in Higher Education (PGDip-LATHE) with the University of Oxford. His special interest is formative and summative assessments in medical education.
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Dr Muthu Natarajan
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Dr Muthu Natarajan - Clinical Director
Dr Muthu Natarajan is Clinical Director for our Dementia, Huntington's Disease and Acquired Brain Injury division.
He has been with St Andrew's since 2010, specialising in forensic psychiatry for older adults and working closely with NHS commissioners to improve clinical services. Muthu has spoken at numerous conferences and written in mental healthcare journals.
Acute, PICU and Rapid Response
