Prof Ameh is an experienced Consultant in Accident and Emergency Medicine and has been a Expert Witness since 2009. He combines his 17 years of being a specialist in medico-legal practice with a longstanding clinical career in emergency care.
Prof Ameh’s medico-legal expertise is grounded in formal expert witness training including Bond Solon and extensive experience preparing bespoke expert reports for personal injury, clinical negligence and criminal matters.
He is routinely instructed by claimant and defendant teams and has experience in court attendance and specialist medico-legal assessments.
His medico-legal work encompasses evaluation and reporting on a broad range of emergency care issues.
Including trauma, soft-tissue and whiplash injuries, missed or delayed diagnosis (such as fractures, sepsis, appendicitis, stroke and acute coronary syndromes), resuscitation practice and advanced life support.
– Over 14 years’ experience of medico-legal report writing.
– Volume of Clinical Negligence Reports completed annually: Approx. 20
– Types of Clinical Negligence reports completed: Mostly Breach and Causation. Sometime Prognosis in relevant cases.
– Court Attendance Experience: 2-3 attendances per year spread across Coroners Courts, Medical Practitioners Tribunals (MPTS) and Crown Courts.
Areas include:
Whiplash injuries and associated disorders.
Soft tissue injury.
Personal injury.
Major trauma.
Critical illness and resuscitation.
Medical ethics and medical education.