Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Ophthalmology
Area of Expertise: ophthalmology, eye injury, cornea, corneal transplant
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2016
City of Practice: Salem
State of Practice: Virginia
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 2
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 1
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff:
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: Univeristy of South Florida
Year of Completion: 2012
Residency: Univerisity of South Florida
Year of Completion: 2016
Fellowship: Ohio state University
Year of Completion: 2017
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: Section Chief Ophthalmology
Current Academic Affiliation: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: 2
Number of Publications on PubMed: 25
Professional Organizations: 5
Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $500
- $5000
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
- Medical Probability: 9 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The provided records are scattered and difficult to follow. They fail to distinguish which lens was chosen and what the goal of surgery was. It appears patient agreed to toric IOL in both eyes and was...
- Causation Probability: 2 / 10
- Causation Summary: The implanted lens did not result in injury to the eye however it is reasonable to think that there was negligence in IOL implantation.
- Expert Summary: I perform hundred of cataract surgery and in academics, I am involved with resident training of cataract surgeries. The pre-operative discussion with the patient and surgical planning is absolutely cr...
- Similar Summary: Never, there must be a systems process flat in this practice for this sort of mis-implantation of the lens to happen. it is not common.
Cataract procedure, IOL placed with known cortical material not fully removed. (Case #460)
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: In this 69-year-old male with visually significant cataract and documented miotic pupil pre-operatively, the operative note confirms that a pupil-expanding device such as iris hooks, Malyugin ring wer...
- Causation Probability: 8 / 10
- Causation Summary: The patient’s current poor vision in the right eye (20/150+1) is plausibly linked to the cascade of events initiated during the first cataract surgery. The absence of a pupil expansion device in a p...
- Expert Summary: I have significant experience serving as an independent medical examiner and currently manage a full time surgical practice which includes cataract surgery. I have performed over 5000 cases and manage...
- Similar Summary: Routinely. I do approximately 15-18 cases weekly many of which include small pupil size and complicated cataracts.
