A consultant surgeon who sexually harassed junior female colleagues has been suspended from the medical register for 12 months after a High Court judge ruled that his original eight months suspension had been too lenient.1
James Gilbert was regarded as the “golden boy” of his department at the Oxford Transplant Centre, one of the women who gave evidence against him told the medical practitioners tribunal that suspended him last August. The tribunal found that he had touched female colleagues inappropriately without consent, including squeezing one woman’s thigh between his own thighs under the operating table, and made sexually motivated and racist remarks.2
Gilbert had told the tribunal that he was a “different person …
