Pain from the periphery to the centre: A medicolegal perspective

Dr Shetty trained at Cambridge University Hospitals and underwent a clinical fellowship in pain management at Guys & St Thomas Hospital in London. He is a consultant in Pain Medicine at University College London Hospitals and Associate Professor at University College London. He is a consultant at Harley Street Clinic and Cleveland Clinic. His current roles in Pain medicine include: 

Honorary Associate Professor, Division of Surgery, University College London. 

Visiting Professor in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, SSHAE, India. 

Regional Advisor in Pain Medicine, Faculty of Pain Medicine, Royal College of Anaesthesia. 

Faculty: UCL Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery 

Secretary: Royal Society of Medicine (Pain Section), London 

Principal investigator NIHR Portfolio study. Oxford University, 2020 

Core committee member: London School of Regional Anaesthesia 

Senior Fellow and Council Member: London Pain Forum 

Lead for Neuromodulation UCLH & Cleveland Clinic London 

Professor George Ikkos is Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust and Clinical Fellow of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Association.

He was the first president of the Pain Medicine Section at the Royal Society of Medicine, President of the Psychiatry Section, Honorary Visiting Research Professor at London South Bank University, and Treasurer of the Association of Clinical Professors of Psychiatry. He has delivered invited plenary lectures at meetings of the British Pain Society and the International Association for the Study of Pain and has been medical advisor to the Scotsman Fringe First award-winning play The Shape of the Pain. George has qualified as Group Analytic Psychotherapist and has published on psychosomatic, psychodynamic, interpersonal, and social aspects of psychiatry

Professor Tom Quick is a peripheral nerve surgeon and clinical academic recognised internationally for his expertise. He holds honorary posts in most London NHS hospitals and provides clinical expertise in nerve injury for the whole UK, as well as Iceland. He has successfully treated and supported rehabilitation of a wide range of professional sports men and women, internationals in rugby, cricket, football and horse racing.  

Professor Quick was educated at Manchester Grammar School. In 1996 he was accepted at Magdalene College Cambridge where he graduated in Art History before moving on to University College London (UCL) Hospitals to complete his undergraduate medical training. After basic surgical training he completed his orthopaedic training in Bristol. Subsequently he undertook a fellowship at The Westmead Children’s Hospital in Sydney, Australia. Professor Quick then completed eighteen months of fellowship at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore, where in April 2013, he was appointed as a Consultant peripheral nerve surgeon. He provided consultancy at Headley Court the Defence Medical Rehab Centre, Surrey in the Nerve Injuries of War clinic for four years. Professor Quick's Doctoral thesis on the ‘Assessment of re-innervated muscle function‘ was successfully defended in 2018 earning MD(res) at UCL.  

He is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science and a founding member and clinical lead for peripheral nerve in the Centre for Nerve Engineering (CNE) at UCL. He collaborates scientifically with a wide range of academic teams in London the across the UK. He has published over 50 peer reviewed paper numerous book chapters and national guidelines in nerve injury. He is an ABC travelling fellow. 

Baroness Susan Greenfield is founder and CEO of Neuro-Bio Limited, she is a neuroscientists, writer and broadcaster. She has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals, based mainly at Oxford University but has held research fellowships at the College de France Paris, New York University Medical Center and Melbourne University. She holds 32 honorary degrees form UK and foreign universities', has received numerous honours including the Legion d'Honneur from the French Government, an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians, The American Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award, and The Australian Medical Research Society Medal. She is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.  

Dr Bass trained in medicine at Cambridge University and St Thomas’s Hospital in London and in Psychiatry at Kings College Hospital in London, where he published a thesis on non-cardiac chest pain. He worked as Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford from 1991 where he carried out collaborative research with many different hospital specialists and worked in a joint pain clinic for 15 years.

His main areas of research and clinical interest include patients with persistent medically unexplained physical symptoms and patients with fabricated illnesses, including fabricated or induced illness in children. He co-edited Hysterical Conversion: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives (with Halligan P and Marshall J), OUP 2001 and Malingering and Illness Deception (with Halligan P and Oakley D) OUP, 2003.

Since retiring from the NHS he has worked with a multi-disciplinary group at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, which published Council Report 223 on the assessment and management of adults and children in cases of fabricated or induced illness [2020]. He is also a member of a number of active multi-disciplinary web groups which involve functional neurological disorders [FND] and fabricated illnesses. During the last 10 years his medicolegal work has involved assessing patients for the Courts with chronic pain and FND following accidents, and he has a particular interest in patients with complex regional pain syndrome Type 1 and persistent physical symptoms. In 2021 he published a review on chronic pain in personal injury with Dr Jon Valentine.