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CLINICAL PRACTICETom is a clinic academic at Bristol university and associate professor in both Bristol and UCL. He is establishing a regional brachial plexus service for the southwest. Treating adult traumatic brachial plexus injuries and thoracic outlet syndrome. After having worked purely in this field for over 12 years Tom has huge experience in this very focused field.As part of providing a regional referral service for Adult and paediatric brachial plexus and peripheral nerve injury Tom has a large experience of traumatic supra- and infra-clavicular plexal injury repair and reconstruction. Within the diagnosis treatment and reconstuction of complex nerve injury all over the body (except the face) Tom deploys all modern methods of nerve surgery:nerve transfer, nerve grafting (both autograft & allograft), neruolysis, neuroma relocation, targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR).EXPERT WITNESS PRACTICEStarting in 2013, and having now been instructed in excess of 1000 cases encompassing personal injury and medical negligence. Tom sees 4 new medicolegal cases for opinion per week with a ratio of 70:30 between claimant and defence instruction.Tom accepts instructions via a paper-free practice and has a turn around of 2-4 weeks from receiving instruction to completed reports (with video and static image evidence).Tom has a wealth of experience in court appearances. Having appeared (both as a witness to fact and an expert witness) in personal injury, medical negligence, criminal and family courts. Senior Counsel Liam Reidy in Dublin comment that in under cross examination Tom was “brilliant and remained composed”.A large percentage of Tom’s reports concern both the condition and prognosis and the likely causation of cases of Obstetric (Erb’s) Palsy. In commenting on causation Tom restricts his comments to the pathophysiology of nerve injury not straying into the area of the obstetric expert but offering supportive evidence to that of the midwife or obstetrician.Tom has attended training at Irwin Mitchell’s ‘Becoming a Medico-Legal Expert’ Spring Series 2014 and attended the Expert Witness Institute Conference 2015. Tom was elected as a member of the Expert Witness Institute in 2015. Tom has provided educational talks to lawyers and medical experts on issues around nerve injury (some of which are available to view on his website). Tom is a member of the organising committee of the Annual Cambridge (Peterhouse) Medicolegal conference.