Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree:
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Surgery (General Surgery)
Area of Expertise:
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1994
City of Practice: Boston
State of Practice: Illinois
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant:
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 4
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 3
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: -
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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
- $500
- $3000
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
Necrotizing Pancreatitis s/p lap chole (Case #115)
- Medical Probability: 1 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The US before the operation showed a normal caliber CBD without stones. In addition the LFTs were normal before the operation. Therefore no cholangiogram was indicated. The cholangio is done in these ...
- Causation Probability: 1 / 10
- Causation Summary: Since there was no medical error, there is no causation. More likely than not the pancreatitis was not the result of any medical negligence. The MRCP showed no CBD dilatation or stones so I assume...
- Expert Summary: This is one of my areas of expertise.
- Similar Summary: Every week.
Lap Colectomy: failure to recognize transection of ureter (Case #118)
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: "Are ureteral injuries uncommon during colectomy procedures?" These injuries are rare but not uncommon. What makes me believe that this might be a medical error is that in "easy" cases this complic...
- Causation Probability: 9 / 10
- Causation Summary: The ureter should have been visualized during surgery. If not, all efforts should have been made to keep the dissection very superficial, as this was not a cancer operation that would have involved t...
- Expert Summary: I provide the full spectrum of general surgery and I have done these operation and witnessed these complications in my practice
- Similar Summary: Probably twice to 5 times a year
