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Professor Paul Brennan



Contact Person: Professor Paul Brennan
Qualifications: BMedSci (Hons) MB BChir (Cantab) PhD (Edin) FRCS (SN)
Phone: 07966 541880
Occupation: Professor of Clinical and Experimental Neurosurgery, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Clinical Director for Neurosurgery

Professor Paul Brennan
BMedSci (Hons) MB BChir (Cantab) PhD (Edin) FRCS (SN)

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Consultant Neurosurgeon

Professor Paul Brennan is Professor of Clinical and Experimental Neurosurgery at the University of Edinburgh. He is a consultant neurosurgeon and clinical director of neurosurgery at NHS Lothian, Edinburgh.

Professor Brennan provides expert reports for clinical negligence, personal injury claims, and criminal cases across the range of general elective and emergency adult neurosurgical practice. He has received instructions from solicitors across the UK, and internationally, from litigants, prosecutors and the defence. He has worked with the Procurator Fiscal, and is on the National Crime Agency expert witness register. Professor Brennan has experience attending court.

His areas of medico-legal expertise include:

  • • Adult elective and emergency neurosurgery
  • • Head injury
  • • Cauda equina syndrome
  • • Brain tumour diagnosis and management

Medico-legal training

Professor Brennan enrolled on the Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate through the University of Aberdeen. This includes four days of training in Excellence in Report Writing, Courtroom Skills, Cross Examination and Law and Procedure. He attended Inspire MediLaw’s two day Expert Witness Training (Dec 2018) which is accredited by the Royal Society of Medicine.

Professor Brennan understands the need to provide a high-quality report expeditiously. He will agree to time scales at the time of receiving an instruction and aims to have most reports completed within 4 weeks of receipt of the necessary clinical documentation.

Click here to view his CV.

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