Dr Julius Bourke is an experienced expert in somatic syndromes, such as chronic fatigue and chronic pain syndromes, which lie at the interface between general medicine, surgery and psychiatry. He is frequently instructed in the provision of expert medico-legal opinion on psychiatric disorders, head injury and post-concussion syndromes.Dr Bourke obtained his medical degree from Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. He then went on to work in emergency medicine and neurology in East London and hyperbaric medicine in Egypt. He pursued his psychiatric training in East London and then at The Maudsley Hospital.Outside of his clinic, Dr Julius Bourke serves as a clinical senior lecturer in neurophysiology and clinical psychiatry at the Queen Mary University of London. His specialist research interests are in the neurophysiology of chronic pain, the functional somatic syndromes and related disorders.Dr Bourke is active and interested in research. He has given numerous talks and presentations on both a national and an international basis. He has been widely published on an array of subjects in his field. He has also co-authored a textbook on psychiatry and has contributed chapters to numerous others, including a world-leading textbook on internal medicine.