Dr Sudhir Sethi

Dr Sudhir Sethi is a highly competent and reliable Medicolegal Professional and Expert Witness with 20+ years’ experience. He has prepared reports and appeared in courts both in Family and Criminal Court settings. Covers Family Law, Care Proceedings, Criminal Law, Personal Injury and Insurance. Special interest in Child Protection and Child Health areas, including Head Injury, Child Sexual Abuse, Shaken Baby Syndrome and Fabricated & Induced Illness.

He has completed over 50 reports for the NHS during nearly 20 years as a Lead in Child Protection and over 60 reports privately. These are almost equally on instruction from defence or prosecution teams.

Dr Sudhir Sethi has been a Consultant Paediatrician for over 25 years. He has special interests in Child Protection Issues, Child Health and Child Public Health. He completed his earlier training in India, and came to the UK after completing his MD in Paediatrics from the University of Bombay, India. Dr Sethi has since completed his Masters in Public Health (MPH) from Nottingham University, UK in 2003. He is a Fellow of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (FRCPCH), and an International Board Certified Lifestyle Physician (DipIBLM).

Currently Consultant Community Paediatrician at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board North Wales.Consultant. Consultant for the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) programme and FIDES Global Influencer Group for the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Listed Expert of the National Crime Agency and MLAS. Recognised by The Shaken Baby Foundation (USA) as a world expert.In the area of child protection Dr Sethi has special interest in ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’(SBS), a condition he believes is preventable. It is only through awareness and education this can be prevented. Shaken Baby foundation, USA has recognised Dr Sethi as a World Expert in SBS

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His special interests are Child Protection, including Head Injury, Physical Injury, Sexual Abuse, Fabricated or Induced Illness and Shaken Baby Syndrome. Dr Sethi has experience of working as a lead in child protection in Staffordshire and Leicestershire as a Named Doctor and Designated Doctor for Child Protection respectively.

Dr Sethi has chaired and developed Guidelines/ Protocol for:

• CSA Medical Assessment Protocol

• Medical Assessment Multi-agency Protocol

• FII – multiagency and single agency (health) protocol 

• Sudden or Unexpected Death in Infancy and Childhood SUDI Protocol - Multi-agency and single agency (health including A&E, ambulance & Primary care) 

• Child Death Review Protocol for Health

• Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) – chair Task and Finish Group 


 

He has been involved in International Child Projects in Nepal, Palestine and India presently. Has worked in Balkans during the crisis working with Kosovan refugees and training child health professionals at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia.



Regularly invited by media to appear as paediatrics subject matter expert. Dr Sethi has extensive media experience, having undertaken formal training in “Handling the Media” via the BBC and LPT (Leicester Partnership Trust). He has contributed to newspapers, regularly reporting on the projects that he has been involved with, e. g. Topics connected to health issues like Prevention of Shaken Babies, Breast Feeding, (Baby Friendly Initiative, UNICEF) Immunisation & Rickets etc. Television programmes like Channel 4 Television series (UK) - More "Embarrasing" Illnesses - Bedwetting – completed, first aired in January 2000. Dr Sethi also regularly contributes to Radio shows on child health and welfare. The BBC programme 'Missing Girls' in UK Asian Community won Sony Gold Award. He has been interviewed extensively for Newspapers, Radio, and Television including the recent interview for Newsnight for Girl Child Issue.



He is also actively involved with training, research and has presented many presentations regionally, nationally and Internationally.

Dr Sethi has done training programmes in Medico-legal area with the RCPCH, Bond Solon etc. in report writing, giving evidence in courts, meeting of experts and other aspect of work as an Expert Witness. He is in the Expert Panel for National Crime Agency (FMAT) and MLAS.
He has been involved in the training of medics, and professionals from partner agencies like Police, Social Services, Probation, YOT.
CCST in Paediatrics, MPH (Masters in Public Health - (University of Nottingham), MD Paediatrics – University of Bombay 1991, MBBS – JIPMER, University of Madras 1988, MRCP (RCP) 1994, FRCPCH ( RCPCH) 2003, CSI (University of Warwick) 2012, Diplomate in Lifestyle Medicine 2020 ( IBLM - International Board of Lifestyle Medicine)