Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree:
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Vascular Surgery
Area of Expertise: Vascular Surgery
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1998
City of Practice: Brooklyn
State of Practice: New York
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 4
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 3
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 1
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 1
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
- $400
- $2000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $450
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $800
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $400
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $2000
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1000
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $2000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1500
- For each additional day: $1500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1400
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $2000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $3000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2500
- For each additional day: $2000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1400
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $2000
Case Responses
Failure of femoral to femoral bypass graft resulting in death (Case #135)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: From the story given above, my best opinion is that the femoral-femoral graft did not take in consideration the obesity and anatomic changes that would occur with sitting up. Likely the anastomoses t...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: As above - the surgery itself as well as the process of dealing with the hemorrhage.
- Expert Summary: I’ve been practicing vascular surgery since 1997, and I’ve been involved with resident and fellow education through most of my career.
- Similar Summary: Usually two to three patients a month with similar pathology.
- Medical Probability: 3 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: If the left renal artery stenosis were significant, the kidney would have atrophied. Seldom do we intervene on renal artery narrowing without actively clinically significant hypertension. It also is ...
- Causation Probability: 3 / 10
- Causation Summary: See above. See above See above
- Expert Summary: I am a vascular surgeon that performs EVAR’s as well as renal artery interventions.
- Similar Summary: EVARs and AAA, ~30 per year, renal stenosis 1-2 cases per year. The combination is rare. Renal disease is a very common part of my practice, although rarely from stenosis and the narrowing of the ...
