MSACL Presenter Biography

Lewis Couchman
King's College Hospital

Lewis began work at The Medical Toxicology Unit, London, in 2003. After returning to Loughborough University to complete his undergraduate degree, he returned to work a the MTU in 2005, before undertaking a formal four-year clinical scientist training programme and a part-time MSc degree specialising in analytical toxicology, during which time he moved to King’s College Hospital, London. He successfully completed the degree and training programme and now works as a registered clinical scientist at King’s College Hospital in the departments of clinical biochemistry and toxicology. He is involved with research and analytical method development/validation using HPLC, and LC-MS(/MS) for a range of toxicology- and biochemistry-related analytes. He has published reviews on LC-MS in analytical toxicology, the use of LC-MS in steroid analysis, the use of TurboFlow technology, and on the analysis