Expert Witness – Dr Amit Adlakha
Consultant Intensivist & Lung Transplant Physician

Dr Adlakha receives instructions from both Claimant and Defendant law firms in personal injury and clinical negligence cases. Dr Adlakha has extensive experience of presenting evidence in coroner’s court.

Dr Adlakha completed his MBChB in Edinburgh in 2005 and has a triple CCT in Respiratory, General and Intensive Care Medicine from the London and Oxford Deaneries. He has been a Consultant Intensivist at the Royal Free Hospital in London since 2018 and an Honorary Consultant Lung Transplant Physician at University Hospitals Birmingham since 2019. He is the ICU lead for the hospital Mortality review Group and is an NHSBT clinical lead for organ utilisation (lung).

Dr Adlakha has a wide range of clinical interests in both intensive care and respiratory medicine. Dr Adlakha’s clinical interests in intensive care medicine covers all areas of general intensive care including respiratory failure, ARDS, ventilation, sepsis, cardiac arrest, cardiogenic shock, acute renal failure, hypoxic brain injury, liver failure and transplantation. He has expertise in the assessment of critically ill patients and complex decision making around admission to ICU, treatment limitations, do-not-resuscitate orders, end-of-life-care and brain-stem death testing. Dr Adlakha’s clinical interests in respiratory medicine cover all aspects of respiratory disease and he has a particular interest in lung infections, end-stage lung disease, lung transplantation and its complications.

Dr Adlakha is current chair of the UK Association of Lung Transplant Physicians. He has been Sector lead for Severe Acute Respiratory Failure, North & Central London. He co-chairs the ERAS for Lung Transplant NHSBT programme.

Dr Adlakha was awarded a PhD in 2020 for research into the use of immunoadjuvant treatment for post-transplant fungal lung infection from Imperial College London. He has an interest in ICU outcomes in the immunocompromised, post-transplant infections and organ donor optimisation.

Dr Adlakha has given invited lectures to the Intensive Care Society, the British Thoracic Society, and NHSBT organ donation and utilisation national conferences in the last 2 years and is a regular invited speaker on donor optimisation on the ICU. He is a course director on a national bronchoscopy course and devised and directs the Donor Optimisation and Management for Intensive Care (DOMIC course). He has been a faculty member on courses teaching pleural procedures, thoracic ultrasound, bronchoscopy and revision courses for MRCP examinations. He has been an ALS instructor and a BASIC ICU instructor. He mentors multidisciplinary ICU candidates for thoracic ultrasound accreditation and supervises transplant coordinators for certification in independent prescribing.