Consultant Psychiatrist
GMC Reg. 6159616

Approved under s12(2) Mental Health Act 1983 (2007)
Dr Alikhan has around 13 years’ experience of psychiatric expert witness work. He studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge and King’s College London Medical School, graduating in 2007 as a doctor. He currently works as a substantive NHS Consultant in East London NHS Foundation Trust.

He trained in General Adult and Rehabilitation Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and worked at other hospitals on the South London training scheme including the Bethlem Royal. He has worked subsequently as a consultant since 2016 in various settings caring for people with complex mental health needs. He has specialist experience in forensic psychiatry and neuropsychiatry, having worked as a consultant for several years in a medium secure (forensic) Acquired Brain Injury and Neuropsychiatry service. He is also experienced in ADHD assessment and treatment.

He served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry at the Royal College of Psychiatrists for over 10 years. He has degrees in Experimental Psychology (MA), Medicine (MBBS) and Law (LLM, Mental Health Law) and is approved under section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983 (2007).

He has a keen interest in legal and political issues, especially human rights, immigration and criminal law. He has worked with refugees and asylum seekers for several years providing individual therapy and expert medico-legal reports, and regularly provides expert opinion evidence to the Courts in civil and criminal cases. He is indemnified by the Medical Protection Society (MPS).

Qualifications

BA, Pre-clinical Medicine/Natural Sciences (Psychology) Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University (2003)

MA, Cambridge University (2007)

MBBS, King's College, University of London (2007)

MRCPsych (2012)

CCT General and Rehabilitation Psychiatry (2016)

LLM (Mental Health Law) (Commendation), Northumbria University (2016)

Dr Alikhan is available for instruction in matters requiring expertise in the following areas:

• General mental health conditions (civil and social legal issues including occupational/work related matters)

• General mental health conditions (forensic and criminal legal issues)

• Acquired brain injury (civil, immigration and criminal issues) including traumatic brain injury, stroke and various other neuropsychiatric disorders, including ADHD

• Personal Injury, Post-traumatic stress disorder and related legal issues

• Immigration, detention, deportation, torture and asylum cases

• Vulnerability and Disability in housing matters

• Assessment of mental capacity including testamentary capacity

• Fitness to plead and stand trial

• Capacity to form intent

• Insanity defence

• Competence to give evidence (vulnerable victims of and witnesses to crime)

• Second opinions including for Mental Health Act matters such as Mental Health Tribunals and the Upper Tribunal

• Addictions and substance misuse in relation to mental health