Expert Information

Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes

Degree: MD

Specialty / Subspecialty:

  • Pediatrics

Area of Expertise: pediatrics, adolescent medicine, newborn care, infectious disease, injury, developmental pediatrics, behavioral pediatrics, trauma

Year of Medical Training Completion: 1998

City of Practice: NEWTOWN

State of Practice: Connecticut

Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes

Type of Practice: Academic

  • Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 1
  • Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 1
  • Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
  • 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

  • $500
  • $2000

Independent Medical Examination:

Independent Medical Examination with written report

  • Per Hour: $1000

Deposition in office:

Deposition: Discovery/Evidence

  • First two hours: $5000
  • For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $1
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $5000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1500

Trial (InState):

  • Initial day: $5000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
  • For each additional day: $5000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $5000

Trial (Out of State):

  • Initial day: $5000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
  • For each additional day: $5000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $5000

Case Responses

VKDB (Case #119)

  • Medical Probability: 1 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: 1. Injectable vitamin K is recommended 2. If oral vitamin K is used —as a substandard alternative— and is unavailable, then the argument is not whether the physician has the obligation to r...
  • Causation Probability: 1 / 10
  • Causation Summary: No medical error. No causation.
  • Expert Summary: 25 years of experience Academic pediatrician Prenatal visits when these issues are discussed. Have become an advocate insisting that home births by midwives and local birthing centers specificall...
  • Similar Summary: Regularly at prenatal visits, questions such as these come up.