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Dr Jason Payne-James

Jason Payne-James is a forensic physician with a range of clinical and research interests in forensic medicine and related specialties who has published widely as a researcher, an author and an editor and collaborated in research projects with organisations such as the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

He qualified in medicine in 1980 at the London Hospital Medical College and has undertaken additional postgraduate education to higher degree level at Cardiff Law School, the Department of Forensic Medicine & Science at the University of Glasgow and with the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.

He is a forensic physician and is Honorary Senior Lecturer at Cameron Forensic Medical Sciences, Barts & the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of London, UK. He is Director of Forensic Healthcare Services Ltd and Payne-James Ltd, an is external Consultant to the National Policing Improvement Agency and to the National Injuries Database and  is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Forensic & Legal Medicine.

His forensic medicine clinical and research interests include healthcare of detainees, deaths, harm and near misses in custody,  torture,  drugs and alcohol, wound and injury interpretation, sexual assault, neglect, non-accidental injury, restraint and use of force injury,  police complaints, age estimation and photographic imaging of injury.  He has developed new colour scales for use in clinical forensic imaging (www.forensigraph.com). He advises a number of government agencies and  has undertaken reviews of healthcare in relation to deaths or near misses in custody for a number of bodies including police services,  the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Prison & Probation Ombudsman.  He gave evidence at the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry , the report of which was published on 8th September 2011. He is  President of the World Police Medical Officers .

Jason has co-edited, co-authored and contributed to a number of books including the Encyclopedia of Forensic & Legal Medicine;  Forensic Medicine: Clinical & Pathological Aspects; Symptoms and Signs of Substance Misuse (1st & 2nd editions – a 3rd edition jointly written with Margaret Stark and Mike Scott-Ham is currently being written); Artificial Nutrition Support in Clinical Practice (1st and 2nd editions – a 3rd edition is in prepation); Symptoms and Early Warning Signs;  Dr Apple’s Symptoms Encyclopaedia; Medicolegal Essentials of Healthcare (1st and 2nd editions); Colour Atlas of Forensic Medicine. He was lead author on the new Simpson’s Forensic Medicine (13th Edition); he co-authored the new Oxford Handbook of Forensic Medicine and co-edited  both Age Estimation in the Living and  Current Practice in Forensic Medicine (a second volume is in preparation).

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