Waney Marian Valerie Squier MBChB, MRCP, MRCPath, FRCPath, FRCP

Dr. Waney Squier is a Consultant Neuropathologist at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals and Honorary Clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford. She has been a consultant neuropathologist since 1984, having trained at the Institute of Psychiatry and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. She is a member of the British Neuropathological Society and the British Pediatric Neurology Association. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. During her 24 years in Oxford, she has specialized in the pathology of the developing brain in the fetus and neonate. Her other areas of interest are developmental causes of epilepsy and muscle pathology. She has been involved in research into the nature and timing of brain damage due to intrauterine and perinatal insults, the effects of asphyxia on the immature brain, the correlation of imaging and anatomic pathology in the pre-term human brain, and the neuropathology of cerebral palsy in children. She has published widely on these subjects in peer-reviewed journals and has edited a book on the timing and causation of developmental brain damage. She has an interest in the neuropathology of sudden unexpected death in infancy, including babies thought to have been intentionally injured. She has prepared reports in many cases both for the prosecution and the defense and has appeared in court as an expert witness on many occasions.