Dr Edwin Osakwe

Dr Edwin Osakwe is a Consultant Paediatrician and expert witness at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where he has been a consultant since 2011, alongside his specialist role in eating disorders at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust since 2017. His principal areas of expertise include general and acute paediatrics, safeguarding and child protection, complex healthcare, developmental paediatrics and the medical management of children and young people with eating disorders.

With over fifteen years’ post-CCT experience, Dr Osakwe manages children and young people across general paediatric, emergency and outpatient settings. His practice encompasses medically and psychosocially complex presentations, with day-to-day experience caring for patients from birth, alongside specialist interests in developmental paediatrics, health monitoring and the interaction between physical and mental health in younger patients.

A particular focus of his practice is the assessment and management of the physical complications associated with eating disorders, including work at the interface between paediatric and mental health services. Dr Osakwe also has extensive experience in safeguarding and child protection. His wider professional responsibilities include clinical governance, serious incident learning and service development, alongside his roles as a Consultant Appraiser, Educational and Clinical Supervisor and Medical Student Tutor at the University of Oxford.

Dr Edwin Osakwe commenced medico-legal practice in 2026 and provides expert paediatric opinion in Clinical Negligence and Family matters. His experience includes claimant instructions and the preparation of screening and advisory opinions, breach of duty assessments, causation reports, and condition and prognosis reports.

His medico-legal practice encompasses general and acute paediatrics, safeguarding and child protection, developmental paediatrics, complex healthcare and paediatric emergency presentations. He is also able to provide specialist opinion in cases involving children and young people with eating disorders, including their physical health and medical complications. Drawing on his experience of safeguarding, statutory healthcare and the management of medically and psychosocially complex children, Dr Osakwe provides focused paediatric opinion on standards of care, clinical decision-making, causation and outcome within his areas of expertise.

Dr Osakwe’s clinical practice centres on the assessment and management of children and young people with acute, general and complex paediatric presentations. His day-to-day work includes evaluating children presenting through emergency and outpatient services, monitoring their health and development, and managing conditions requiring coordinated input across paediatric and other specialist services.

He has particular expertise in safeguarding and child protection, including the assessment of children with complex health and social care needs and cases requiring interaction with statutory health, social care and police services.His practice also encompasses developmental paediatrics, with clinical experience spanning the assessment and management of children from birth onwards.

A specialist focus of Dr Osakwe’s work is the physical health of children and young people with eating disorders. He assesses and manages the medical complications associated with these conditions, including ongoing health monitoring, and works at the interface between paediatric and mental health services to support patients with combined physical, psychological and psychosocial needs.