Steven R. Hirsch

QUALIFICATIONS
BA Hons (Philosophy) Cum Laude, Amherst College, Mass., USA, 1959
MD Johns Hopkins University, 1963
MPhil London University, Institute of Psychiatry, 1969 FRCPsych 1979 (Member from 1971)
FRCP London, 1983 (Member from 1966)

AWARDS
Starkey Memorial Prize for 1976. Royal Society of Health.
BMA 1st Prize Book Award Competition 1996 for ‘Schizophrenia’
Honorary member, Psychiatric Section, Royal Society of Medicine, from 1994 Lifetime member of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum
2001 International Congress Award for Achievement in Schizophrenia, Whistler, Canada.

Employment Law (psychiatric aspects)
Personal Injury (psychiatric aspects)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (psychiatry)
Family Law (parental assesement)
General adult psychiatry
Psychopathology and psychiatric disorders
Anxiety disorders and depression(psychiatry)
Trauma sequelae (psychiatry including personal injury)
Victims of accident, assault or crime (psychiatry)
War veterans (psychiatry)
Psychosomatic disorders and Munchausen
Personality disorders and psychoses
Violence, self harm and suicide
Fitness to plead (psychiatric assessment)
Witness assessment and testamentary capacity
Trauma assessment (psychiatric)
Abnormal behaviour (psychiatric assessment)
Mental disorder (psychiatric assessment)
Bi-polar and mood related disorders
Schizophrenia and other psychoses
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and post viral fatigue
Insurance and insurability
Neuropsychiatry
Medical competence and negligence
Medical malpractice and accidents
Prescribing and dispensing errors
At Risk Mental States for Psychosis
Psychophysiology as applied to schizophrenia
Psychosomatic disorders
Memory impairment
Psychopharmacology
Organic psychiatry
Psychiatric Care
Psychiatry ethics, competence and misadventure

Professor Steven Hirsch is a Consultant Psychiatrist in London as well as a Medico-Legal Psychiatrist and Expert Witness. Professor Hirsch has provided psychiatric care for the people of Fulham, London for twenty years and has been practicing privately for over ten. He was Professor and Head of Department of Psychiatry at Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School and is now Professor Emeritus at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine.

He is widely published on social, biological, clinical and service research - and is the author of over 300 refereed publications, abstracts and chapters and several books. Professor Hirsch originated and organised the Bi-ennial Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia Research, the principal meeting in Europe on Schizophrenia research now (www.wwpsych.org).

He is an Honorary Member, Psychiatric Section, Royal Society of Medicine, Lifetime Member of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologica, and received the International Congress Award for Achievement in Schizophrenia in 2001.

His clinical expertise as a psychiatrist in London covers all aspects of adult psychiatry, such as anxiety and depressive syndromes, reactions to personal and work related stress, diagnosis and treatment of patients at risk of psychosis, bi-polar and related disorders, schizophrenia and difficult to diagnose mental states, patients with memory problems and related disorders, and the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety based disorders.
As a Medico-Legal Psychiatrist in London and Expert Witness, he has had extensive experience in providing opinions to the GMC, Medical Defence Societies, Insurance Companies and in civil, criminal, employment, personal injury and family cases. He is experienced as an Expert Witness to the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeals Tribunal, and the High Court.

He is Past Chairman of the Association of Clinical Professors of Psychiatry, the Association of University Professors of Psychiatry, the Psychiatric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Psychopharmacology sub-committee of the Royal College of Psychiatry, and past Chairman of the Professoriate of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Medical School.