Expert Information

Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes

Degree: MD

Specialty / Subspecialty:

  • Neurological Surgery

Area of Expertise: Pediatric Neurosurgery, Pediatric Brain Tumors, Hydrocephalus, Congenital Brain Conditions, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Pediatric Brain Tumors, Pediatric Brain Tumors, Congenital Brain Conditions, Hydrocephalus, Congenital Brain Conditions, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Pediatric Brain Tumors, Pediatric Brain Tumors, Congenital Brain Conditions, Hydrocephalus, Pediatric Brain Tumors, Congenital Brain Conditions, Congenital Brain Conditions, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Pediatric Brain Tumors, Hydrocephalus, Congenital Brain Conditions, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Pediatric Brain Tumors, Hydrocephalus, Congenital Brain Conditions

Year of Medical Training Completion: 2019

City of Practice: CHICAGO

State of Practice: Illinois

Previous Experience As Expert Witness: No

Type of Practice: Non-Academic

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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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

bilateral craniotomy for scaphocephaly (Case #398)

  • Medical Probability: 6 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: If the child's head was positioned properly, in the appropriate head holder, and with the appropriate padding precautions, this injury should not have occured. Also, the duration of the case seems a b...
  • Causation Probability: 6 / 10
  • Causation Summary: Yes, depending on the positioning, padding, and surgical technique (and length), if in error, these would be a direct cause of this injury.
  • Expert Summary: I am a dual board certified pediatric neurosurgeon (ABNS, ABPNS 2019) with experience treating sagittal synostosis successfully and without complication.
  • Similar Summary: I treat 5-10 cases of craniosynostosis a year, plus numerous additional pediatric cases (tumor resection, chiari decompression) that require prone positioning and hence attention to prevention of this...

19yo male VP Shunt Failure Resulting in Death (Case #525)

  • Medical Probability: 6 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: Need more info about patient's baseline ventricular size and morphology, and etiology of HCP. Has the shunt failed in the past and if so did ventricles increase in size? Proximal flow on a shunt tap d...
  • Causation Probability: 6 / 10
  • Causation Summary: It sounds like this patient died from hydrocephalus, which is most likely from shunt malfunction, which was not fully ruled out in the workup.
  • Expert Summary: I am a dual boarded pediatric and adult neurosurgeon with specialty experience in complex hydrocephalus with a range of etiology.
  • Similar Summary: Almost daily - I was trained in one of the top centers for pediatric hydrocephalus - congenital, IVH related, and spina bifida. We saw many many patients with complex shunt systems and failures where ...

Surgeon performed a C7-T1 fusion that was not consented to by the patient. (Case #550)

  • Medical Probability: 10 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: The surgeon admits to fusing the wrong anatomic level. This is a serious medical error. Standard of care mandates that the surgeon determines and verifies surgical levels at multiple points throughout...
  • Causation Probability: 10 / 10
  • Causation Summary: Fusion across the C-T transition (i.e. C7-T1) as a stand alone construct is also considered high risk as junctional levels subsequently bear a greater biodynamic strain and hence often require multi-l...
  • Expert Summary: I am a dual board certified pediatric and adult neurosurgeon having performed 100s of cases like these.
  • Similar Summary: I focus mainly on children now, but I had many many cases like this in my training.