MDDUS Medical Advisory Team

The MDDUS has medical members from a variety of specialities across the NHS and private practice throughout the UK.

The MDDUS Medical Advisory Team pride themselves on providing a personalised doctor-to-doctor service of support and medico-legal advice.

If you are an MDDUS member, don't hesitate to contact us as soon as you think you may have a problem. Click here to meet the MDDUS Medical Advisory Team.

MDDUS members can contact the team for advice on a wide range of topics including:

• Dealing with patient complaints
• Medical record keeping
• Issues of confidentiality
• Consent to treatment
• Expert guidance on the interpretation of relevant legislation
• Medical ethics

Members can also seek assistance and representation in disciplinary matters, General Medical Council (GMC) proceedings, fatal accident inquiries and coroner's inquests.

In the case of a claim against a member for medical negligence, MDDUS advisers provide expert guidance and, where necessary, engage legal representation.

Claims of medical negligence can be extremely complex. As a member, you can rest assured that a fellow professional will guide you at each step.

Glasgow Office

Dr. Jim Rodger

BSc MB ChB BA MBA FRCGP FRCP(Ed) DMJ
Head of Professional Services and Medical Adviser

Jim is a Glasgow graduate of 1972. He was in general practice in Hamilton for 18 years before joining the MDDUS in 1993. He is currently a member of Scottish Council and UK Council of the RCGP and Vice Chairman and Treasurer of Scottish Council RCGP.

 

Dr Gail Gilmartin

MB ChB MPhil
Senior Medical Adviser

Gail joined the MDDUS in 1991. She qualified in Liverpool in 1984, then constructed her own GP training programme. She successfully completed GP vocational training in a practice in Arundel in 1989. Subsequently she spent some two years as a trainee anaesthetist before joining the MDDUS in 1991. She has been an MDDUS adviser since that time. Gail's special area of responsibility is the production of Summons, the members' quarterly magazine.

 

Dr Anthea Martin

BMSc MB ChB LLB MPhil MFFLM DRCOG DFFP
Senior Medical Adviser

Anthea graduated from Dundee University in 1995. She undertook vocational training in general practice in the Stirling area and completed her GP year in a practice in Doune. She then spent some three years in locum posts in Forth Valley and completed her law degree during this time. She also did family planning and was Primary Care Tutor in Tayside. She became a salaried partner in a Stirling practice in 2002. Anthea joined the MDDUS in 2003

 

Mr Riaz Mohammed

MB ChB FRCS(Glas, Ed) MD (Glas) MPhil
Senior Medical Adviser

Riaz joined the MDDUS in 2003. He qualified from Glasgow University in 1974 and, after surgical training in the West of Scotland, was appointed Consultant General and Gastro-intestinal Surgeon in Dunfermline to the Fife Health Board in 1988. He became an honorary clinical senior lecturer to the University of Edinburgh serving regularly as an examiner for the MBChB examinations for Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities as well as an examiner for the surgical fellowship exams for surgical colleges. He also served as Clinical Director for Surgical Services for Fife and was a national panelist for the appointment of consultant surgeons in Scotland.

In 2001 he took up a post as Consultant Upper Gastro-Intestinal Surgeon at the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow and had responsibility for teaching, training and audit etc. He was at that time also appointed as an Internal Surgical Adviser to the Ombudsman's Office in London. Having taken up his appointment as medical adviser with the MDDUS in 2003, and to supplement his understanding of medico-legal issues, he completed the post-graduate degree of M.Phil in Law and Ethics in Medicine at Glasgow University, graduating in 2006. In addition to medico-legal duties he now enjoys supervising research and publication of data held by MDDUS for the benefit of the profession as a whole.

 

Dr Roger Black

MBChB DRCOG MRCGP MPhil DFFP DFM
Medical Adviser

Roger is a graduate of Dundee University. He also currently works in general practice in Glasgow and is a GP trainer, undergraduate tutor and Honorary Senior Lecturer in General Practice at Glasgow University.

 

 

Dr Susan Gibson-Smith

MBChB DRCOG MRCGP MPhil
Medical Adviser

Susan graduated from Glasgow University in 1992 and has been working as a GP for 13 years in Glasgow, before joining the MDDUS in August 2009. She completed the post-graduate degree of MPhil in Law and Ethics in Medicine at Glasgow University, graduating in 2004. She has experience in GP training and undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching. Susan is also currently working as a GP appraiser.

 

Dr J Barry Parker

MBChB MSc FRCGP DRCOG DCCH DFSRH
Medical Adviser

Barry graduated from Edinburgh University in 1985. On completion of GP vocational training in 1990 he became a full-time partner in an Edinburgh practice, where he remained for 19 years. He became a Fellow by assessment of the RCGP in 2004, and completed an MSc in Primary Care at the University of Dundee in 2007. He also trained as a practice Quality and Outcomes Framework reviewer and GP appraiser before joining the MDDUS as medical adviser in 2009.

 

Dr Mary M Peddie

MB ChB DRCOG DFSRH FRCGP
Medical Adviser

Mary graduated from Glasgow University in 1979. Following house jobs and a self-constructed vocational training programme in Stobhill Hospital, she completed her GP training in a practice in Muirhead. She then became a principal in a practice in Falkirk in 1985. She joined Forth Valley LMC in 1993 and was one of the doctors who helped set up FALDOC, the local OOH cooperative in 1996. Mary became Chair of the LMC in 2001 and a member of SGPC in 2002 and continued in these roles during the introduction of the New GMS Contract in 2004. She was appointed as a Fitness to Practise Panellist with the GMC in 2003 until she joined the MDDUS as a part-time adviser in summer 2007. She left her practice in December 2007 after over 20 years and worked as a locum in several Forth Valley practices during 2008. She was elected a Fellow of the RCGP in November 2008. She joined MDDUS as a full-time medical adviser in 2009.

London Office

Dr John Holden

MB BS MPhil MRCGP MFFLM DCH DRCOG
Senior Medical Adviser

John joined the MDDUS in 2010, as an experienced medical adviser. He graduated from King’s College in 1984 and spent a year in the Western Isles as a GP trainee before joining a semi-rural practice in East Sussex in 1991, where he was a GP principal, and latterly the senior partner, for 13 years. John developed an interest in medico-legal matters whilst still a GP, graduating from the University of Glasgow with the degree of MPhil in Medical Law in 2003. He left his practice in 2004 to work as a full-time medical adviser. John is a founder member of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.

 

Dr Anahita Kirkpatrick

MBBS BSc MFFLM
Senior Medical Adviser

Anahita qualified from Guy’s Hospital in 1992 and subsequently trained in Psychiatry on the Southeast London scheme. Latterly, she was a Registrar in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Guy’s Hospital. In 1999 she commenced work as a medical adviser and joined the MDDUS in 2010. Anahita is also a founder member of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.

 

Mr Desmond J Watson

MA(Oxon) LLM FRCSEng (Otol) MFFLM
Medical Adviser

Des joined MDDUS in November 2009 with over four years’ previous experience of medico-legal advisory work. He qualified from Oxford University Medical School in 1980 and became a Fellow of the English and Edinburgh Colleges in 1986. After Higher Professional Training in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and a six-month scholarship to the University of Michigan Medical Centre, he became a consultant in Suffolk in 1991. Des also has a Law Masters from University of Northumbria and is a member of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.

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