Malcolm Griffiths is a consultant and former clinical director in obstetrics & gynaecology at Luton & Dunstable Hospital.

He qualified in London in 1981. His training was within the old Thames regions (including posts at Guy’s, the Middlesex and Hammersmith Hospitals) and Oxford region (including John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and Royal Berkshire Hospital). He has had training in the range of obstetric and gynaecological special interests, and particular in gynaecological oncology, genitourinary medicine and high-risk obstetrics.

He has obtained the diploma of membership (MRCOG) of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (1987); he delayed taking the fellowship (FRCOG) until 2007. He is a member of the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health (MFFP). He obtained the higher degree of MD (University of London) (1993). Through distance learning he has been awarded diplomas and certificates in health economics, medical law and health service management from the universities of Aberdeen, Glasgow and the Open University respectively.

He is a member of the following learned societies – Medico-legal Society, Hertfordshire Medico-legal forum, British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society, British Association of Perinatal Medicine, European Association of Gynaecology & Obstetrics, East Anglia Obstetric & Gynaecological Society.
He has published seventeen peer- reviewed papers in learned journals, as well as a number of case reports, a book and a chapter in a textbook. He has particular expertise in road traffic accidents affecting pregnancy.

In his current post he has general obstetric and gynaecological duties as well as regular delivery suite sessions, and high-risk obstetrics. He is the lead clinician for clinical risk management (and until 2002 for delivery suite and antenatal diagnosis). He is involved in a number of committees in the hospital. Regionally he is an assessor for the Confidential Enquiries into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy (CESDI) – now part of CEMACH. He is current joint chairman of Eastern Region of CEMACH (Confidential Enquiry into Maternal & Child Health) and chairman of the Eastern Region O&G Development Group. He now supports the Peliz Partnership. He was a member of the medical advisory board of the British Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction Support Group (registered charity – now defunct), he now supports the Pelvic Partnership.

He has been involved in providing expert advice and reports in clinical negligence and personal injury cases since 1994, since which time he has been instructed in more than 1,500 cases (largely in the United Kingdom but also Ireland, Australia and Hong Kong). He has been trained in report writing, giving evidence and acting as a single joint expert. He has given evidence in court – High Court (Queen’s Bench Division & Family Division and in Ireland). He has been elected to membership of the Academy of Experts and was a founding member of the Expert Witness Institute. He has been instructed on behalf of claimants and defendants. He has supported AVMA (Association of the Victims of Medical Accidents) by contributing to some of their guidelines and in teaching lawyers on aspects of obstetrics, and by donations.

He has lectured (in the UK and overseas) on a wide-range of topics but in particular clinical risk management and legal issues.