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                                Dr Aristos Markantonakis                                                                                                           l

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist , FRCPsych MBBS LLM

 

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Reports Nationwide

Medico-legal Address :

 N & S Consultants, 75 Harborne Road, Edgbaston, B15 3DH

Tel: 0121 607 1792


GMC No : 2772561 :   Medical Protection Society Number : 139270

 

         CIVIL CASES INC. PERSONAL INJURY / PSYCHIATRIC INJURY
 

  • Trauma Sequelae (Psychiatry including Personal Injury)
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Psychiatry)
  • Psychosomatic Disorders/ Munchausen / Malingering
    – fraudulent simulation or exaggeration of symptoms assessments
  • Munchausen by proxy
  • General Psychiatric Assessments
  • Psychopathology / Psychiatric Disorders
  • Anxiety Disorders / Depression
  • Psychiatric Injury
  • Medical Negligence
  • Victims of Abuse – Neglect, Physical, Sexual, Emotional Abuse

    FAMILY LAW
     
  • Child contact and custody cases
  • Child Psychiatric assessments involving ADHD, Aspergers and Behavior Disorders
  • Risk Assessments / Domestic Violence

    CRIMINAL COURTS
     
  • Personality Disorders/Psychoses
  • Criminal Responsibility (Psychiatric Assessment)
  • Fitness To Plead (Psychiatric Assessment)
  • Dangerousness/Risk Assessment (Psychiatric)
  • Violence/Self Harm/Suicide
  • Criminal Behaviour
  • Offender Assessment (Psychiatric)
  • Witness Assessment/Testamentary Capacity,
  • Abnormal Behaviour (Psychiatric Assessment)
  • Mental Disorder (Psychiatric Assessment)
  • Psychiatric Care
  • Psychiatric Rehabilitation
  • Rape / Sexual abuse
  • Crime Victims (psychiatry) Torture Victims (psychiatry)

    IMMIGRATION
     
  • Asylum Seeker Psychiatric assessments; Abuse Victims

  • I am employed on a full time basis by the National Health Service working as a Consultant Child Psychiatrist at Derbyshire NHS Trust based in Derby.

    • I work with a team of professionals from various fields and provide a service to children and adolescents up to the age of 18 years.
       
    • I am responsible for the assessment and treatment of the children referred to the clinic by a variety of agencies which include General Practitioners and Social Workers. We have nearly 1000 referrals a year.
       
    • We have a junior trainee doctor attached to the service and I am responsible for their training and clinical supervision.
       
    • I am approved under section 12 of the Mental Health Act as having special experience in the assessment and treatment of children with mental disorders.
       
    • I was the named doctor for safeguarding for the Trust for three years and I have had special experience in the assessment and treatment of drug and alcohol problems in children and adolescents (substance abuse).
       
    • I was one of the founding members of the safe guarding committee for the Trust and was the lead doctor for setting up the substance misuse service for children and adolescents in 2005 ( both services were set up in 2005).
       
    • I am the lead doctor for the Trust for Attention Deficit Disorders. Responsible  for the setting up of the interagency protocol for ADHD and audit of the NICE guidance on ADHD for the Trust.
       
    • I currently continue to offer an efficient service to the children of South Derbyshire. I participate in the on-call Rota for Child Psychiatry offering a service out of hours and on weekends in a 1 in 6 basis. I provide consultation and supervision to the CAMHS team on a regular basis.
       
    • I offer domiciliary visits to patients who are too sick to attend out patient appointments.
                  
    • Qualified in 1983 from Southampton Medical School as a doctor of medicine. Became a FULL member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1987 and then a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2005.
       
    • I have trained in the assessment and treatment of adults with mental health problems in the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Rotational Training Scheme from 1984 until 1988. My training included training in adult psychiatry, child psychiatry, psycho-geriatric medicine (Health care of the elderly), and forensic psychiatry based at Rampton Hospital, Retford.
       
    • Part of my training was held at Pastures Hospital Derby and part at Mappereley Hospital Nottingham. During this time I undertook a three year psychotherapy training course, which included participating in my own personal therapy.
       
    • Adult Psychiatry attachment with Dr Elkes which was both in-patient and out-patient based and included carrying out both out-patients clinics and regular out-patient clinics. One year placement
       
    • Adult psychiatry attachment with Dr Ludlow in the psychiatry of rehabilitation which included both in and out patient assessment and treatment of patients. This was a one year attachment before moving to Nottingham Training Scheme.
       
    • Adult Psychiatry attachment with Professor Peter Tyrer. This attachment gave me experience in the treatment of patients in the community and included research carried out in the community setting. It was both in patient and community based and was for a period of six months.
       
    • Forensic Child Psychiatry at Rampton Hospital Retford Nottinghamshire. Rampton Hospital is a secure hospital and offers a service to the criminally mentally ill patients. During this attachment I was responsible for the daily assessment and treatment of the in patients at the hospital and directly accountable to the senior forensic psychiatrist. This was a six month placement.
       
    • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry based at St Anne Hospital Nottingham and attached to Dr J Heron and Dr Atkins. I was responsible for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents treated as out patients and the adolescent in the in patient unit. This was for six months attachment.
       
    • Psychiatry of the elderly (Health Care of the Elderly). This was based in the department of the Health care of the elderly at Queens Medical Centre Nottingham. Professor Tom Arie and Dr Jones. This was for six months. I was responsible for the care of the patients on the wards at the hospital and also some out patient duties.
       
    •  Higher specialist psychiatric training was based at the East Anglian Rotational Scheme at Cambridge and Ipswich. This was for a period of three years from 1988 to 1991. This period was a higher Psychiatric Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. During this time I was attached to various teams both in Cambridge and then in Ipswich.
       
    • Attachment with Dr J Mathai at the Institute of Family Psychiatry in Ipswich. This was for a period of one year and my responsibility was for both in patient and out patient services. I assessed and treated children under the supervision of a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist working closely with the team. I also gained extensive experience in Family Therapy during this attachment.
       
    • Attachment with Dr K Weir at the Institute of Family Psychiatry in Ipswich. This attachment was for a year and my responsibility was for out patients and included extensive experience medico-legal work and the provision of child medico-legal reports for court.
    • Attachment to Brookside child psychiatry clinic and the Adolescent unit Cambridge with Professor I Goodyear. This attachment was for a period of a year and included both in patient and out patient assessments.
       
    • In 1991 I became Consultant Child Psychiatrist at Lichfield & Tamworth localities working for Premier Health Trust.  I worked there until 1998 and offered a comprehensive and well respected service. I then worked for a short spell at Nuneaton and Sandwell Hospital Trusts and I am now employed as a Consultant Child Psychiatrist in Derbyshire NHS Trust. I was employed in Derby in 2000 and have been there ever since.
       
    • My experience as a Consultant in Lichfield was mostly as an out patient consultant offering an out patient service for children and adolescent and treating children with a variety of mental health disorders. My treatment plan included using the team and their skills and also drug treatment for serious mental health problems in children including psychosis.
       
    • During this time I lead the establishment of a special school for children with school phobia which was a facility for eight children to be taught by specially trained teachers and supported by the clinic staff and myself. This ran for seven years until I left the service in 1998. I also provided a Family Therapy assessment and treatment service.
       
    • I have I have been a member of the medical staff committees since I was training as a senior registrar on the Cambridge and Ipswich training scheme. As a Consultant I chaired various staff committees up to the present day where we share the chairing of the medical staff committee now.

      I have taken part in various courses in management in the past which include:

      1) Presentation skills for psychiatrists
      2) Management skills for psychiatrists
      3) Time management for psychiatrists
      4) Workshops on management for managers and psychiatrists
       
    • I have been involved in teaching since I was a junior trainee and have offered training courses for a variety of professionals from health and social services as well as other agencies.
       
    • I held a regular course for professionals offering training in the effects of child abuse and safeguarding children whilst I was a consultant in Lichfield.
       
    • I have trained junior doctors in psychiatry consistently since I became a consultant in 1991. I offer training for medical students who are attached to my team and they come on a rotating basis every year. The service holds a regular service wide teaching which I take a lead in and offer and chair lectures to the service.
       
    • I studied part time for a Masters in Medical Law at the University of Cardiff Law School and graduated in September 2009. My thesis was on “Consent in Children”
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    • I am often asked to provide Expert Opinion for Courts. I have been providing reports for Courts as an expert witness from 1988 until the present date.
       
    •  I have produced over 2000 Court reports since starting medico-legal work. I have been asked to prepare reports in the past by the Official Solicitor and I am now asked to prepare reports frequently by CAFCASS and various Solicitors.
       
    • I am asked for my Opinion in child abuse cases and in cases of contact and custody disputes.  I am instructed by solicitors representing local authorities, individual parents and also guardian ad litems.
       
    • I have a special interest in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and also Attention Deficit Disorder (ADDH). I am also interested in the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa.
       
    • Languages: English and Greek
       
    • Computer: Understanding of Microsoft Office Application such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
       
    • Full UK Driving License

    MEDICO LEGAL EXPERIENCE

    I have been providing expert witness medico-legal reports for over 20 years and have prepared over 2000 Court reports covering every aspect of law and more or less every conceivable type of case.

    These include Personal Injury reports to complex child care cases including sexual and physical abuse, attachment, contact and custody disputes, behavioural disorders such as ADHD, Autism as well as a whole range of criminal cases such as fitness to plead, risk assessment, pre-sentencing reports, assault and murder cases.

     I am frequently asked to prepare expert reports in highly dynamic and complex family cases by CAFCASS officers and local authorities across the country.

    I prefer to interview families in their own homes when this is possible.

     I will usually prepare a report within two to three weeks from client appointment as I understand the impact of long delays or waiting times can have on clients and their families and other parties such as local authorities, foster parents, youth detention centres.

    I accept work which is Legal Aid funded and also privately funded.

     I often carry out paper reports and ABE reports for the Courts.