Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: D.O. M.P.H.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Clinical Informatics
- Community/Behavioral Health
- Home Health
- Internal Medicine - Geriatric Medicine
- Public Health and General Preventive Medicine
Area of Expertise: Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Informatics, Public Health
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2020
City of Practice: CHICAGO
State of Practice: Illinois
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 2
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 2
- 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, only for the plaintiff
Available to Testify In Trial: Yes, for either the defendant or the plaintiff
Training and Additional Credentials
Medical School: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Year of Completion: 2008
Residency: Harvard/Cambridge Health Alliance/MGH
Year of Completion: 2011
Fellowship: University of Michigan Geriatrics
Year of Completion: 2013
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: Adjunct Clinical Professor, Northwestern Medicine
Current Academic Affiliation: University of Illinois
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: Crains 40 under 40, Harvard Kennedy School Public Service Award, Teaching Award for Residents, Crains Notable in Health Carre, Presidential Leadership Scholar, Aspen Health Innovator
Number of Publications on PubMed: 35
Professional Organizations: American College of Physicians, American Public Health Association, Cook County Health System, UnidosUS, Society of General Internal Medicine, National Academy of Medicine
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
Post cervical laminectomy, possible delayed diagnosis of CSF infection (Case #441)
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Given the symptoms and history there should have been a set of cultures done with csf fluid and evaluation of the leak. With clear imaging and rising white count on the visit after initial discharge, ...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: If the infection was caught earlier, they could’ve been on the correct treatment for the correct organism that would’ve avoided the follow up visit and decline.
- Expert Summary: I’ve seen patients in the hospital with similar postop complications and infections that have emerge. I’ve also seen them in my outpatient practice and follow up. Were we immediately sent the pati...
- Similar Summary: Encounter cases in which I have to do hospital follow up weekly. I have encountered cases just like this with complications from a procedure that may be infection or other impacts on kidney and organ ...
