Dr Stephen Morley

Dr Stephen Morley trained at the Kings College Hospital London and qualified in 1993. After a medical rotation he specialised in clinical biochemistry and then trained as an Analytical and Clinical/Forensic Toxicologist. Dr Morley is currently the clinical lead for Clinical and Forensic Toxicology at the University Hospital Leicester.

Dr Morley has a broad forensics and clinical toxicology workload. He has a particular interest in post-mortem toxicology, cases involving drugs and driving, drug facilitated crimes, and those of murder and manslaughter. He is often instructed where there is a clinical treatment, such as insulin affecting function and possible leading to death, acting as an expert in two Court of appeal cases (R v Winzar and R v Norris (Campbell)), as well as cases of salt poisoning in children, dehydration, or where a clinical chemistry laboratory has not followed guidelines that have contributed to deaths.

Much of Dr Morley’s research is based around the effects of emerging drugs (such as SPICE and the nitazenes). He is also a Supervisor of three PhD students who are investigating insulin toxicology, and the demographics and epidemiology of drugs deaths, thought a research group called NPSAD.

Dr Morley is a visiting lecturer for the Masters course in analytical toxicology at the Kings College London, and a visiting lecturer on the Forensic Masters course in Jamaica. He has lectured internationally including Europe, USA, Asia, and the Caribbean.

Dr Morley has over 50 publications and 70 meeting abstracts. He has also co-authored national guidelines for clinical, forensic, and post-mortem toxicology investigations.

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Dr Morley founded the UK Clinical Toxicology Network which is wiring guidelines for hospital investigations of poisonings in the UK. He was the chair of the UK toxicology group, LTG (formerly the London Toxicology group).