Medico-legal expertise since 2008, operating from the West Midlands and throughout the UK.
We provide expert witness services in neurology, neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology, care and a wide range of other specialities with a focus on medico-legal reports and assessments.
Get in touch with us today 0121 485 0400 or send us an email info@brain-matters.co.uk to discuss your requirements.
Dr Dougall McCorry is the founder of Brain Matters. He is an experienced neurologist and leading medico-legal expert, that has been the clinical director for the University Hospital Birmingham Epilepsy Surgery Program. He presently has an equal split of the defendant and claimant cases.
Dr Dougall John Patrick McCorry is a consultant neurologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. He undertook his medical degree in Leicester and his specialist neurological training in Scotland and Yorkshire. His research into epilepsy was undertaken at the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool.
Dr Peter Jenkins is a Consultant Neurologist. He graduated with a double First in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. Then graduated from Oxford University in Medicine and was awarded Merit for finals examinations and Baber Scholarship. Dr Peter Jenkins also undertook a PhD at Imperial College London. His specialist area of clinical practice and academic interest is in the diagnosis and management of traumatic brain injury and its complications. Dr Peter Jenkins is a founder member of the Association of British Neurologists (ABN) Traumatic Brain Injury Specialist Interest Group and is a current member of the ABN Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Group. Dr Peter Jenkins is a member of the regional traumatic brain injury team at St George’s Hospital, London and run a weekly traumatic brain injury clinic.
Dr Rather has a vast experience in psychiatry for over 16 years and was appointed consultant neuropsychiatrist at the Barberry, National Centre for Mental Health in 2014. In addition, he is the honorary lecturer in clinical neuropsychiatry at the University of Birmingham.
Dr Rather has a wide expertise in full range of mental health conditions such as mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders, functional neurological disorders, and neuropsychiatry of epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease and complex somatoform disorders and medically unexplained symptoms and sleep disorders.
Denise is a Registered Nurse and Independent Nurse Prescriber with over 35 years experience working in the NHS. Since 2000 Denise has worked as an Epilepsy Nurse Specialist, having managerial and clinical roles in learning disability, neurology and neuropsychiatry services. Denise has worked in, and developed, enhanced epilepsy services including womens / maternity clinics, NEAD services, VNS and surgical care and transition clinics.
In addition to her NHS roles Denise has worked as an Expert Witness for a number of years and has wrote reports for defendant and claimant.
Report types:
Liability and Causation reports
Breach of Duty, Care Reports
Comprehensive Epilepsy Care Reports
Epilepsy Risk Assessments
Mental Capacity Act reports
Dr Mocroft qualified from Birmingham University in 1981. His training took place in various hospitals throughout the Midlands. Clinical Neurophysiology training was undertaken in Birmingham and Coventry.
Dr Mocroft has been a Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham since 1994. He has been practising in private practice for 26 years. He has been involved in Medico-Legal work for 15 years and provides a Neurophysiology Report for around 100 cases per year. During this time he has helped to train many registrars who are now consultants in their own right throughout the country. He has been Clinical Service Lead and is currently Regional Specialty Advisor for this specialty.
Also works at Circle Rehabilitation Birmingham.
Clinical Interests
Dr Mocroft has an interest in peripheral nerve disorders, in particular diagnosis of nerve entrapments and general nerve disorders. He has expertise in the neurophysiological diagnosis of Motor Neurone Disease and general muscle disorders.
Year qualified:
1981
Professional Membership
Dr Hacker works 0.7 WTE at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital at present and lead Neuropsychologist for Traumatic Brain Injury where he has worked for the past 15 years. He has an established medico-legal practice.
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