Expert Information

Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes

Degree:

Specialty / Subspecialty:

  • Internal Medicine  -  Medical Oncology

Area of Expertise: Oncology, Hematology, Delayed/Missed Diagnosis, Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy toxicity, Opioids, NEUROONCOLOGY, ADMINISTRATION MEDICINE

Year of Medical Training Completion: 1989

City of Practice: Monsey

State of Practice: New York

Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes

Type of Practice: Academic

  • Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 12
  • Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 32
  • Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 4
  • Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 18

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

  • $700
  • $3000

Independent Medical Examination:

Independent Medical Examination with written report

  • Per Hour: $1500

Deposition in office:

Deposition: Discovery/Evidence

  • First two hours: $1400
  • For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: -
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $700
  • Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1000

Trial (InState):

  • Initial day: $5600
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
  • For each additional day: $5600
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $5600

Trial (Out of State):

  • Initial day: $5600
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
  • For each additional day: $5000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $2000

Case Responses

Osteosarcoma (Case #133)

  • Medical Probability: 9 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: This is a young woman with an obviously rapidly progressing disease in 5 months, of which she died. Osteosarcoma is only curable at early stages, which it appears to be, based on a small size when it ...
  • Causation Probability: 9 / 10
  • Causation Summary: She dies if a disease which was not diagnosed or investigated, or followed. That established causation with a more likely than not probability. Localized disease has a survival of 70-75 percent and in...
  • Expert Summary: I am an academic oncologist with 30nyeara of experience and had been chief and director in several institutions. I have excellent writing and verbal skills and testified in about 25 cases in court.
  • Similar Summary: About 4 times a year. I practiced at one time in a university hospital with a bone cancer program, the only one in the state of NJ.

Delayed Diagnosis of high grade pleomorphic sarcoma (Case #138)

  • Medical Probability: 8 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: Sarcoma can present wtih bleeding. When the hematoma did not quickly resolve, a malignancy needed to be considered and could have been diagnosed with an MRI in October 2019. This means at least 4 mont...
  • Causation Probability: 8 / 10
  • Causation Summary: Prognosis is 77% at 5 years for patients with tumors arising on the trunk and extremities. The childhood variant appears have better prognosis. Now that it is metastatic, prognosis is that he will eve...
  • Expert Summary: The Hematologist/Oncologist who wrote this review had been Associate Professor of Medicine while a full-time attending at the University Hospital of a Medical School until 2009. Prior to 2004 had been...
  • Similar Summary: At one time, I worked at an institution with a Sarcoma service and saw one about every two weeks. Now - about 6 a year.

Massive DVT resulting in death (Case #181)

  • Medical Probability: 8 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: I am an niternist and a hematologist. Appendiceal cancers cause increased clotting as does postoperative immobilization. It is worthwhile to review what prophylaxis was done or not done before and ...
  • Causation Probability: 7 / 10
  • Causation Summary: Yes, the patient died, and that is the worst possible outcome. His baseline prognosis from appendiceal cancer should also be assessed.
  • Expert Summary: The Hematologist/Oncologist who wrote this review had been Associate Professor of Medicine while a full-time attending at the University Hospital of a Medical School until 2009. Prior to 2004 had been...
  • Similar Summary: Perioperative DVT is common and I see about one every other week.

Failure to identify/report visible abdominal metastasis (Case #475)

  • Medical Probability: 9 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: I am a medical oncologist and will testify on causation. Therefore, I will rely on the radiologist's testimony for the standard of care. For causation, this appears to be a fairly slowly growing canc...
  • Causation Probability: 8 / 10
  • Causation Summary: Addressed above. Much depends on the cancer type and its underlying prognosis.
  • Expert Summary: The Hematologist/Oncologist who wrote this review had been Associate Professor of Medicine while a full-time attending at the University Hospital of a Medical School until 2009. Prior to 2004 had been...
  • Similar Summary: Commonly, both a practicing physician for 35 years and an Expert.