PRO FORMA MEDICO-LEGAL CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Dr Nicholas C Silver
DATE OF BIRTH: 30/09/1965
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CONTACT DETAILS:
The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Lower Lane
Liverpool L9 7LJ
PHONE: 0151 529 5976
FAX: 0151 529 5513
E-MAIL:
MOBILE: 07932 081 726
Nicholas.Silver@thewaltoncentre.nhs.uk
YEAR FIRST APPOINTED AS A CONSULTANT: 2004
MEDICO-LEGAL EXPERIENCE:
Particular experience in forensic cases, especially cases where there have been complex
neurological and / or psychiatric issues surrounding state of mind, automatism, or ongoing
symptoms of questionable cause that affect trial proceedings. Some of these cases have centred
around issues of behaviour disturbance associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I have also been involved in employment tribunals, where disability discrimination has been
considered.
Experience in other legal cases (e.g. personal injury, insurance medical reports, etc.,).
SPECIAL SKILLS:
I have extensive clinical and research training covering a broad spectrum of neurological
disease. I have particular interests in headache, neuropsychiatry, brain injury, and
neurotoxicology (i.e. effects of alcohol and illicit drugs on brain function). I also have
particular experience in inflammatory brain disorders including multiple sclerosis, neuroophthalmology, magnetic resonance imaging, epilepsy, and movement disorders.
From a neuropsychiatric perspective, I am particularly interested in unexplained or
questionable neurological symptoms, mechanisms of fatigue and sleep disturbance, memory
disorders, and physical manifestations of conditions such as ME, chronic panic disorder,
depression, and post traumatic stress disorder.
I run the Regional Headache Service at the Walton Centre in Liverpool. I am particularly
interested in severe and frequent headache syndromes, especially the other manifestations of
such conditions (including fatigue, mood disturbance, dizziness and vertigo, neck pain,
psychiatric and unexplained symptoms). I am involved in ongoing research into headache and
its treatment.
To date, I have written more than 30 peer-reviewed original publications in scientific journals.
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PRO FORMA MEDICO-LEGAL CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. Nicholas C. Silver
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
British Medical Association
Royal College of Physicians (London)
General Medical Council
Medical Protection Society
International Headache Society
British Association for the Study of Headache
British Neuropsychiatry Association
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:
MBBS, University of London, 1989
MRCP (London), 1991
PhD, University of London, 2001
CCST Neurology, 2002
Honorary Lecturer, University of Liverpool, 2004
FRCP (London) 2008
TRAINING:
I qualified at St George’s Hospital Medical School in London. I trained in general medicine to
registrar level before entering neurology.
I spent 4 years at the Institute of Neurology in London working towards a PhD. My research
focused on new magnetic resonance imaging techniques to study inflammatory, toxic,
neuropsychiatric and headache disorders.
I completed SPR training with 2 years at the National Hospital for Neurology, Queen Square
and 2 years at Barts and the London NHS Trust. After completion of specialist training, I
worked as a locum consultant neurologist at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, then at
Northwick Park Hospital, Middlesex, prior to taking up my current substantive post at The
Walton Centre.
PRESENT APPOINTMENT:
Consultant Neurologist
The Walton Centre, Liverpool
Honorary Clinical Lecturer
University of Liverpool
ADDITIONAL POSTS CURRENTLY HELD:
Research Associate
University of Magdeburg, Germany