Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree:
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Neurological Surgery
Area of Expertise: spine surgery, minimally invasive spine surgery, traumatic brain injuries, cerebral aneursyms, personal injury, medmal/p[aintiff/defense, intracranial surgery, workmans comp/peer review
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1993
City of Practice: Boca Raton
State of Practice: Florida
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 50
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 80
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 5
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 15
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
Training and Additional Credentials
Medical School: -
Year of Completion: -
Residency: -
Year of Completion: -
Fellowship: -
Year of Completion: -
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: -
Current Academic Affiliation: -
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: -
Number of Publications on PubMed: -
Professional Organizations: -
Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $1250
- $3000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $2000
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $2500
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $1250
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $1500
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $750
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $3000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1500
- For each additional day: $3000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $8000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $8000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $4000
- For each additional day: $8000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $4000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $8000
Case Responses
Epidural abscess results in fall and paralysis (Case #124)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: As long as the PT was intact neurosurgeon could have intervened at the point of which pt just had numbness but remained neurologically intact
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: Results of wbc, And PT s. numbness are suggestive of spine infection. Longer you wait to communicate that clinical info to neurosurgeon, the less likely pt will have good outcome from surgery.
- Expert Summary: Testifying on one in Texas soon
- Similar Summary: I have encountered cases similar to this one a few times
Car Accident (Case #287)
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: in your brief history, there is not evidence of standard of care errors. bad outcomes are not infrequent in spine surgery and without demonstrable errors in diagnosis and technique, definitely not ...
- Causation Probability: 3 / 10
- Causation Summary: as stated in an earlier explanation, a bad outcome does not necessarily represent medmal.
- Expert Summary: I am honest but some attorneys like to go expert shopping til they get someone who. agrees with their thesis of their case. If you like to waste money and come up with a DEFENSE VERDICT, have at i...
- Similar Summary: Rare. Most experience plaintiff medmal attys know that simply having a bad outcome is not a case.
