Practice Manager: Sue Brown
Phone: 07903 505631
Professor Brendan T Monteiro MBBS LRCP MRCS FRCPsych CertMR
Honorary Professor of Health and Society, University of Salford
Consultant Psychiatrist
Professor Brendan Monteiro is a Consultant Psychiatrist attached to Jacobs Clinic, providing Adult Autistic Spectrum Condition Diagnostic and Assessment Services.
Professor Monteiro has more than 35 years’ experience as an expert witness, including the preparation of psychiatric reports and giving evidence in court, in Personal Injury cases, including the psychological effects of stress at work. He also undertakes industrial injury cases, where clients have been psychologically affected by hearing loss and Tinnitus.
Clients can be assessed in hospitals, special hospitals, secure units, prisons – and remotely using Video Technology in any venue in England.
Professor Monteiro has provided psychiatric reports on cases including:
- Personal Injury
- Stress at Work
- Clinical Negligence
- Psychological Effects of Acquired Deafness (including Tinnitus)
- Forensic Psychiatry Reports - Deaf and Hearing people referred by Courts/Solicitors/Prisons
- Assessments in Prisons, Special Hospitals, Secure Units, Hospitals and agreed venues
- Mental Health of Deaf Adults involved in Child Protection and Family Proceedings
- Residential Institutions Redress Board (Ireland) psychological injuries following physical and sexual abuse experienced by Deaf people (Ryan Report)
- Reports to HSE (Health Service Executive) and Irish Courts.
- Independent Reports to Mental Health Tribunals
- Assessments using Zoom Video Technology (April 2020–date)
Appeared before Mental Health Tribunals (MHT) and in Court to give expert evidence.
Relevant CPD training activity includes:
- Participation in a Peer Group of Experts in providing Medico-Legal reports.
- Chaired worldwide conferences on MH and Deafness/ABI/ASC.
- Keynote Speaker at Conferences in Europe, Japan, US, South Africa/Australia/NZ.
- Keynote Speaker, Criminal Justice Management Conference (October 2010).
- Certificate in Medico-Legal Reporting (Relevant Modules) – Bond Solon (February 2013).
- Bond Solon Annual Expert Witness Conference (2020 - 2024).
- Advanced Expert Witness Course (February 2016).
- Military Psychiatry: Wing Commander Walter Busuttil (January 2017).
- Premex Annual Medico-Legal Conference (November 2017).
- Bond Solon, Civil Law & Procedure Conference (February 2019).
- Bond Solon, Discussions Between Experts (June 2019).
- Bond Solon, Criminal Experts Law & Procedure Course, London (December 2019).
- Bond Solon, Clinical Negligence (September 2020).
- Psychological Aspects of Pain, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors (September 2020).
- Pain and Medico-Legal Course, Expert Witness Institute (EWI) (October 2020).
- Bond Solon, Annual Expert Witness Conference (November 2020).
- Bond Solon, The Law & The Expert’s Role from Instruction to Settlement (November 2020).
- Introduction to ICD-11 Webinar (May 2021).
- ETN Grange Annual Medico-Legal Conference (September 2021 - 2024).
- Historical, Scientific and Clinical Perspectives on Complex PTSD and other ICD-11 Trauma Related Disorders (January 2022).
- Personal Injury Update (June 2022).
- Expert in Report Writing, Bond Solon (July 2022).
- Bond Solon Annual Expert Witness Conference (November 2022).
- RCPsych Annual Congress (July 2023).
- British Association of Psychopharmacology – Annual Conference (July 2023).
- Bond Solon Masterclass in Report Writing (February 2024).
- National ASC Training, RCPsych (March 2024).
- Autism Clinical Interview for Adults – Newcastle University (June 2024).
- Psychosocial Psychiatry (November 2024).
- ADHD for General Adult Psychiatrists, RCPsych online event (November 2024).
- British Association of Psychopharmacology Masterclass online conference (November 2024).
- Bond Solon Annual Expert Witness Conference (November 2024).
Professor Monteiro is a member of the Expert Witness Institute, and Council Member of Manchester Medical Society.
Click here to view Professor Monteiro's medico-legal CV.
