Dr. Michael D. Speight

Information available :-

• Main Job Roles

• Accessory Job Roles

• Contact Details

• Photograph

• Consultancy

• Research

• Hobbies

Current Medical Jobs

Currently working in Occupational Medicine mainly (but not exclusively) for the Oil & Gas Industry. :-

• Occupational Health Physician working mainly with the Oil/Gas & Chemical Industries

• Member of Cleveland Local Medical Committee (LMC)

Accessory Roles

Accessory job roles include :-

• Approved by the HSE as an 'Approved Medical Examiner of Divers' (AMED)

• Medical Referee for UK Diving Medical Committee (UKDMC)

• Approved as Appraiser for Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM)

• Approved for Offshore Medicals (OGUK)

• Interested in Medical Computing

• Interested in Family Planning

• Interested in the application of IT systems in Clinical Practice

Previous Jobs

Previous job roles include :-

• Medical Director for local Hyperbaric Chamber (until its closure in 2008)

• From 2014-2019 was the North East Representative on the Clinical Reference Group (CRG) for Hyperbarics for NHS England

• GP Tutor for Redcar & Cleveland

• GP Partner in a PMS Practice (Woodside Surgery, Loftus)

• GP Appraiser for Redcar and Cleveland PCT

• GP with Special Interests (GPwSI) for Langbaurgh Primary Care Trust

• University Tutor for the 'Personal and Professional Development' (PPD) strand of 1st and 2nd year Medicine
  at the University of Durham, Queen's Campus, Stockton (UDQC)

University Tutor Photograph (taken 2008)

Consultancy

Consultancy services available include :-

• Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine

• Computational Neurobiology

• Medical Imaging

• Parallel Computing

• Unix and Linux Systems

• Web Site Design

Research Experience

Research carried out includes:-

• Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Training Fellowship (RPMS, London).

• Computational Neurobiology at Caltech, USA.

• Evoked Potentials in Psychiatric Research (University of Edinburgh).

Hobbies

Main hobbies outside of work:-

• Diving

• Computing

• Running a variety of Linux Systems (Currently Linux Mint and Ubuntu) via a BT Business Broadband connection

• Running (Mainly 5km distance via Parkruns)

• Food (Suggestions for interesting new places to eat are always welcome)

• Saxophone (Enjoy playing the Alto Saxophone but need a lot more practice!)

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Caltech

I spent time working in the USA carrying out research into the field of Computational Neurobiology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Caltech is one of the most prestigious private universities on the West Coast of the United States and rivals the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the East Coast.

RPMS

MRC Clinical Training Fellowship in Medical Imaging (MRI) carried out at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (RPMS) in London. This work was carried out within the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit and involved both computer programming and clinical imaging work.

Information last altered 29th March 2021