Expert Witness
Senior Consultant Respiratory & Sleep Physician MBBS, MRCP, CCT, FRCP
- Qualifications include
- FRCP
- Usual report turnaround
- 6–8 weeks
- Areas of expertise
- 21
- Instructed by
- Claimant & Defendant
Medico-legal
Medico-legal experience
Dr Iyer has been acting as an expert witness for a number of years and has written numerous reports for inquest, particularly in the context of asbestos causation. He is registered with APIL, AVmA, the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the UK Register of Expert Witnesses. He holds weekly medico-legal clinics in Manchester but is happy to travel in order to conduct home and prison visits. His Claimant/Defendant ratio split is approximately 90/10 and he can usually turnaround reports within 6-8 weeks, sooner if required.
Specialisms
Areas of expertise
- Asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- COVID-19
- CPR
- Emphysema
- Fibrotic Lung Disease
- Insomnia
- Lung Cancer
- Mesothelioma
- Narcoplexy
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Polysomnography
- Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Respiratory
- Respiratory Medicine
- Respiratory Tract Infection
- Sleep Apnoea
- Sleep Medicine
- Spirometry
Profile
Professional background
Dr Iyer is a senior consultant in Respiratory & Sleep Medicine at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He has a leading role within the department in Sleep & Non-Invasive Ventilation. In addition, he is a Senior Lung Cancer Clinician and leads the Cancer Intervention Service in Sheffield. His current job plan includes a heavy general respiratory workload, specialist sleep & ventilation clinic, and a dedicated cancer intervention session. He has led on several important initiatives within the trust, including covid-related service delivery, workforce development, and junior doctor training.
Prior to this, he has had a diverse consultant career occupying a number of senior roles. He was the Clinical Director for Medicine at the East Cheshire NHS Trust. He set up the advanced bronchoscopy, medical thoracoscopy, and diagnostic & therapeutic sleep services in East Cheshire. He chaired the South Manchester lung cancer MDT for several years before moving to Vancouver where he was a visiting consultant at the world-renowned University of British Columbia Hospital.
He has considerable experience of lung cancer, pleural disease, polysomnography, and complex respiratory & non-respiratory sleep disorders.
Sleep & Ventilation lead at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals: June 2020 – current
East Cheshire NHS Trust Clinical Lead for Medicine: September 2014-August 2017
East Cheshire NHS Trust Lead for Lung Cancer, Tuberculosis (TB), Pleural Disease & Sleep: November 2012-August 2017
Chair of the South Manchester Lung Cancer MDT: November 2015-August 2017
Scholarship
Summary of publications
Dr Iyer has published extensively in several areas such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pleural disease, lung cancer, sleep and pneumonia.
Registration
Memberships of professional bodies & learned societies
- Royal College of Physicians
- European Respiratory Society
- British Thoracic Society
- British Sleep Society
- American Association of Sleep Medicine
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Dr Sriram Iyer featured on BBC Breakfast to discuss sleep & health
Dr Sriram Iyer, Senior Consultant Respiratory & Sleep Physician shared valuable insights on the importance of maintaining a consistent sleep routine.
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