Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Obstetrics and Gynecology - Maternal and Fetal Medicine
Area of Expertise: preterm birth, preeclampsia, shoulder dystocia, fetal hypoxia
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2005
City of Practice: Provo
State of Practice: Utah
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 10
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 10
- 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: University of Rochester
Year of Completion: 1996
Residency: University of Arizona-Phoenix/Banner Good Samaritan
Year of Completion: 2000
Fellowship: University of North Carolina Hospitals
Year of Completion: 2003
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: Dept Chair/Director Southern Market
Current Academic Affiliation: University of Kentucky and University of Utah
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: ACOG Faculty Award x 2, Residents Award, Best Doctors, Castle and Connelly Best Doctors, Best of Utah
Number of Publications on PubMed: 20
Professional Organizations: FACOG, SMFM, FAIUM
Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $550
- $3500
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $550
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $1300
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $650
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $1300
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1300
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $4500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2500
- For each additional day: $4500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $1500
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $4500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2500
- For each additional day: $4500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $1500
Case Responses
Birth Injury (Case #448)
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The conditions as described are really too vague to elicit much of a confident opinion that there was medical error. In order to render a more definitive opinion that error was made, we need to dete...
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: 1. there is no definitive indication for early induction for suspected macrosomia, thus induction of labor at 39wk is very reasonable, regardless of GDM 2. If her GDM was well controlled with either ...
- Expert Summary: solicited for case review by over 30 different attorneys over the past 15 years. I do not advertise, but work from word of mouth. i have given over estimated 15 depositions and testified twice (once...
- Similar Summary: I am part of the QI/QA system, and help review all cases of potential birth injry/poor outcome
