Consultant Gynaecologist
FRCOG,
Overview
Areas of expertise
Medico-Legal experience
Mr Lower has provided medico-legal reports for more than 15 years producing in excess of 75 reports during this time, of which around 25% have been for the defendant and 75% for claimant. Mr Lower complies with the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (Revised 2009) and has undergone training in the principles of the test cases of Bolam, modified by Bolitho, Bailey, Hunter and Montgomery. He has given presentations on gynaecological procedures to clinical negligence lawyers on courses at 9 Gough Square, The Law Society and the Professional Negligence Bar Association.
Clinical Practice & Experience
Mr Lower is a Consultant Gynaecologist with 29 years experience, appointed to Barts and the Royal London Trust in 1995. He is in active current practice, seeing 250 new patients and performing 150 operative procedures per annum in the independent sector. Mr Lower was one of the early pioneers of minimal access surgery for gynaecology in the UK, running post-graduate training courses and serving on the MAS Training sub committees at the RCOG and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Mr Lower was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2002. Mr Lower became one of the first subspecialist trainees in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at Barts and the Royal London Trust in 1993. Mr Lower designed and commissioned a stand alone fertility clinic in Colchester. He currently work as a satellite centre to two IVF clinics in the UK and two in the United States and has a detailed knowledge of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (Amended 2008) and its implications in clinical practice.
Clinical Interests
Mr Lower has particular expertise in the treatment of Asherman’s syndrome, uterine fibroids, post-surgical adhesions and complex fertility problems.
Summary of Publications
Mr Lower was co-author of an early textbook of Gynaecological Endoscopy and ran a successful series of courses between Barts and an animal lab in France in the early 1990’s at which more than 70 UK consultant were trained in laparoscopic hysterectomy. Mr Lower is widely published with over 30 research papers in peer reviewed journals and has contributed to a number of major textbooks of Gynaecological and General Surgery. He has been invited to speak at numerous international scientific meetings on his areas of research over the last 30 years.
Teaching & Training
Mr Lower currently works in active private practice focusing on benign gynaecology, uterine fibroids, reproductive medicine and surgery and assisted conception. He was the clinical lead for fertility at Barts and the Royal London Trust and successfully tendered for an NHS fertility contract for the whole of Norfolk, establishing a satellite clinic for Barts in Norwich. Mr Lower served on the board of the British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy.
Memberships of Professional Bodies & Learned Societies
Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists - 2002
Expert Witness Institute
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