Mr Kim Neal Hakin
Consultant Opthalmologist Surgeon
Clinical Experience
PRIVATE PRACTICE
General Ophthalmology and Oculoplastic Surgery
Facial Cosmetic and Laser Skin Treatments (to include Botox and filler injections).
ADVISORY ROLES
Former Clinical Advisor in Ophthalmology to the Healthcare Commission and Nuffield Hospitals and Registered Expert to Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Mr Hakin has provided personal injury and medical negligence medico-legal reports for over twenty years, for organisations such as the General Medical Council, Medical Defence Union, Medical Protection Society, NHS Resolution, and Welsh Health Legal Services on behalf of NHS Trusts in Wales, as well as many solicitors firms and agencies. Instructions to date have been approximately 50% for the Claimant and 50% for the Defendant, with occasional request to act as SJE. He provides approximately 200 reports/year.
Mr Hakin has undertaken formal medico-legal training with Bond Solon, obtaining the Expert Witness Certificate from Bond Solon/Cardiff University in 2003, and is a member of the Expert Witness Institute. He maintains medico-legal CPD with attendance at courses and conferences organized by Bond Solon, the Expert Witness Institute and similar organisations.
Feedback from solicitors for whom he has provided reports are available from the Expert Witness Institute, the UK Register of Expert Witnesses, or on request.
He is able to provide an opinion on most ophthalmological matters, including those relating to cataract surgery, trauma, and eyelid surgery (including cosmetic surgery).
He is available for consultation in London and Taunton and am usually able to see claimant’s within three to four weeks, with a report turnaround time of two weeks.
Publications
PUBLICATIONS
1) "MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE - INTRACRANIAL DAMAGE ASSOCIATED
WITH A PERFORATING EYE INJURY."
KN Hakin.
British Medical Journal 1988; 296: 429-30.
2) "ANTERIOR TUCKING OF THE IRIS CAUSED BY POSTERIOR CHAMBER
LENSES WITH POLYPROPYLENE LOOPS"
KN Hakin, M.Batterbury, N.Hawksworth, P Khaw, JI McGill.
Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery 1989; 15: 640-3.
3) "ACUTE DIFFUSE CORNEAL ENDOTHELIITIS"
KN Hakin, JKG Dart, E.Sherrard.
American Journal of Ophthalmology 1989; 108: 509-15.
4) "TOPICAL FLURBIPROFEN, A USEFUL TREATMENT FOR EPISCLERITIS ? :
A DOUBLE-BLIND CONTROLLED TRIAL COMPARING G.FLURBIPROFEN,
G.PREDNISOLONE, AND G.N.SALINE"
CJ Lyons, KN Hakin, PG Watson.
Eye 1990; 4: 521-5.
5) "HEMIFACIAL ATROPHY : AN UNUSUAL CAUSE OF ENOPHTHALMOS"
KN Hakin, C Yokoyama, JE Wright.
British Journal of Ophthalmology 1990; 74: 496-7.
6) "SYSTEMIC ASSOCIATIONS OF SCLERITIS"
KN Hakin, PG Watson.
International Ophthalmology Clinics Summer 1991; Vol 31, no.3.
7) "BINOCULAR DIPLOPIA IN UNILATERAL APHAKIA : THE ROLE OF
BOTULINUM TOXIN"
KN Hakin, JP Lee.
Eye 1991; 5: 447-50.
8) "THE USE OF ORBITAL FLOOR STEROIDS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF
PATIENTS WITH UNIOCULAR NON-NECROTIZING SCLERITIS"
KN Hakin, J Ham, S Lightman.
British Journal of Ophthalmology 1991; 75: 337-9.
9) "THE USE OF CYCLOSPORIN A IN THE MANAGEMENT OF STEROID-
DEPENDENT NON-NECROTIZING SCLERITIS"
KN Hakin, J Ham, S Lightman.
British Journal of Ophthalmology 1991; 75: 340-1.
10) "MANAGEMENT OF THE SUBLUXED CRYSTALLINE LENS"
KN Hakin, M Jacobs, P Rosen, D Taylor, RJ Cooling.
Ophthalmology 1992; 99: 542-5. KN Hakin CV Jan 22
11) "SYMPATHETIC OPHTHALMIA : VISUAL RESULTS WITH MODERN
IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY"
KN Hakin, RV Pearson, SL Lightman.
Eye 1992; 6: 453-5.
12) "PRIMARY VITRECTOMY FOR RHEGMATOGENOUS RETINAL
DETACHMENTS"
KN Hakin, MJ Lavin, PK Leaver.
Von Graefe's Archive of Ophthalmology 1993; 231: 344-6.
13) "CHRONIC CANALICULITIS"
TJ Sullivan, KN Hakin, N Sathanthan, GE Rose, IF Moseley.
Aust NZ J Ophthalmol 1993; 21: 273-4.
14) "PAEDIATRIC DACRYOCYSTORHINOSTOMY"
K.N.Hakin, T.J.Sullivan, A.Sharma, R.A.N.Welham.
Aust NZ J Ophthalmol 1994; 22: 231-5.
15) "SPONTANEOUS RECTUS MUSCLE HEMORRHAGE"
KN Hakin, TJ Sullivan, AA McNab.
Ophthalmology 1994; 101: 1631-4.
16) “COMBINED CONGENITAL DACRYOCOELE AND ANTERIOR ORBITAL HYDRENCEPHALOCOELE”.
KN Hakin, GE Rose, TJ Sullivan
Orbit 2000 March, 19(1): 1-5
17) “CORNEAL MELT AND PERFORATION SECONDARY TO FLOPPY EYELID SYNDROME IN THE PRESENCE OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS”
JD Rossiter, R Ellingham, KN Hakin, JM Twomey
Br J Ophthalmol. 2002 April, 86(4):483.
18) “A 10 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE SURVEY OF CATARACT SURGERY AND ENDOPHTHALMITIS IN A SINGLE EYE UNIT: INJECTABLE LENSES LOWER THE INCIDENCE OF ENDOPHTHALMITIS”
E Mayer, D Cadman, P Ewings, JM Twomey, RH Gray, KG Claridge,
KN Hakin, AK Bates
Br J Ophthalmol July 2003, 87:867-869
19) “IS VISUAL OUTCOME COMPROMISED WHEN NEXT DAY REVIEW IS OMITTED AFTER PHACOEMULSIFICATION SURGERY? A RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIAL.CG Tinley, A Frost, KN Hakin, W McDermott, P Ewings
Br J Ophthalmol. 2003 Nov; 87 (11): 1350-5
20) "METASTASIS OF ACINIC CELL CARCINOMA OF THE PAROTID GLAND TO THE CONTRALATERAL ORBIT"
Saleh TA, Hakin KN, Davidson MJ
Arch Ophthalmol. 2003 Dec; 121(12):1783-6 KN Hakin CV Jan 22
21) “EYELID SKIN ATROPHY ASSOCIATED WITH THE CHRONIC USAGE OF OPHTHALMIC STEROID OINTMENT AND ITS SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT WITH THE VERSAPULSE LASER”
VM Phua, KN Hakin.
Eye 2001; 15:559 - 60
22) “CONTACT LENS WEAR AND IOL POWER CALCULATION BEFORE
CATARACT SURGERY: A CAUTIONARY TALE.”
Nguyen DQ, Hakin KN
J Refract Surg. 2006 Feb; 22 (2):204
23) “CHALLENGES OF PRIVATE PROVISION IN THE NHS: TREATMENT
CENTRES AND THEIR EFFECT ON SURGICAL TRAINING.”
Guly C, Sidebottom R, Hakin KN, Bates AK.
British Medical Journal 2005 Dec 3; 331(7528):1338
BOOKS
"OCULAR INVOLVEMENT IN SYSTEMIC IMMUNE DISORDERS"
K.N.Hakin, S.Lightman.
Chapter in "Pathobiology of Ocular Disease", ed: Garner & Klintworth, 1994
(Marcel Dekker inc, New York)
REVIEW JOURNAL
"CURRENT MEDICAL LITERATURE : OPHTHALMOLOGY"
(quarterly review journal).
Editor 1991-93. KN Hakin CV Jan 22
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