Mr Michael R. Gooseman is a consultant thoracic surgeon and honorary senior lecturer based at Hull University Teaching Hospitals.

He has a busy and active thoracic surgical practice with a major professional focus on minimally invasive thoracic surgery and he is a high volume robotic surgeon.

Mr Gooseman is driven to provide high quality, evidence based surgical care that is tailored to each individual patient.

Beyond general thoracic surgery, injuries to the chest and thoracic trauma surgery are of significant clinical interest.

He has previously been a consultant for the hospitals major trauma team.  He is the chair of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons thoracic trauma working group.

Mr Gooseman is also the co-Chair of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery/ European Society of Thoracic Surgeons joint task force to develop expert consensus regarding the management of chest trauma.

He has published work in peer-reviewed impact factored scientific journals.  He has served as a guest editor and reviewer.

He is invited as a speaker/ lecturer, moderator and panellist at International meetings and courses.

He has been the recipient of awards/ prizes including from the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (young investigator award 2020), Chest Wall Injury Society (presidents award 2023) and Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery (best thoracic poster prize 2021).

He is a member of the court of examiners, Royal College of Surgeons.

As an expert witness, Mr Gooseman accepts cases involving personal injury report writing including aspects of current condition and prognosis often in relation to general thoracic surgery and thoracic/ chest trauma.

He also accepts cases involving clinical negligence report writing, including aspects of breach of duty and causation.

He fully understands his duty as an expert to the Court under Pt35 of the Civil Procedure Rules and has undertaken specific expert witness training completing Cardiff University Bond Solon Civil Expert Certificate in 2023.

Other areas of interest include:

General adult thoracic surgery (excluding transplantation), surgical safety standards and serious incidents.

Mr Gooseman is happy to accept instructions nationwide. CV available on request.