Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree:
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Internal Medicine - Cardiology
Area of Expertise: interventional cardiology, Biliary surgery, Hernia surgery
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2008
City of Practice: New York
State of Practice: New York
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant:
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 12
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 9
Available to Review Cases: Yes, for either the defendant or the plaintiff
Available to Be Deposed: Yes, for either the defendant or the plaintiff
Available to Testify In Trial: Yes, for either the defendant or the plaintiff
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Academic / Leadership Information
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Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $500
- $2000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: -
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: -
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: -
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): -
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): -
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: -
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
- For each additional day: -
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): -
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: -
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
- For each additional day: -
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): -
Case Responses
Retroperitoneal hematoma results in compartment syndrome of the lower extremities (Case #91)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: This patient presented with the classic signs ands symptoms of phlegmasia cerulea dolens, the result of massive DVT. Phlegmasia cerulea dolens is a medical and surgical emergency, but in this case a d...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: I believe if a fasciotomy had been performed immediately after admission this patient would have had a good chance of saving his legs. There are two facts that support my opinion. 1. When a fasciotomy...
- Expert Summary: I work in a large referral center. I often deal with complex clinical scenarios such as the one described, that require multidisciplinary approach and close collaboration with different medical specia...
- Similar Summary: Retroperitoneal hematomas are not unfrequent in anticoagulated patients, and I am consulted for this type of cases almost every month. However a retroperitoneal hematoma resulting in massive DVT is qu...
Injury to the Common Bile Duct (Case #92)
- Medical Probability: 9 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: There are a number of strategies that a surgeon can use to avoid injuries to the CBD, such as completion of an intra-operative cholangiogram, verification of critical view of safety, intra-operative...
- Causation Probability: 8 / 10
- Causation Summary: A transection of the CBD would have been avoided if the surgeon had re-evaluated the anatomy upon review of the intra-operative cholangiogram. In a sense, at the time of the cholangiogram the CBD ha...
- Expert Summary: As a general surgeon I am very familiar with this type of surgery. I perform major hepato-biliary surgery. I have also served in the past as an expert witness for other cases of CBD injury
- Similar Summary: I perform about a cholecystectomy a month
Delayed diagnosis of GIST (Case #108)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: A 2.6-cm lesion should have been identified by the radiologist in 2012. From your summary it sounds like at that time the radiologist missed the GIST, which allowed the tumor to grow without treatment...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST) are malignancies of the gastrointestinal tract, typically found in the stomach and small intestine. Prognosis is based on size, location and mitotic rate (dupli...
- Expert Summary: While not a medical oncologist I am trained in surgical oncology and I see patients with GIST quite frequently. Surgery is typically the initial treatment modality for GISTs.. I also routinely discuss...
- Similar Summary: GIST are relatively rare tumors. Because I work in a tertiary referral academic center I see at least 10 GIST each year.
