Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Dermatology
Area of Expertise: Dermatology
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2008
City of Practice: PHILADELPHIA
State of Practice: Pennsylvania
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 1
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 1
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 1
- 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: -
Year of Completion: -
Residency: -
Year of Completion: -
Fellowship: -
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Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: -
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Number of Publications on PubMed: -
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Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $600
- $2000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $600
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $1200
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $600
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $1200
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $2000
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $5000
- For each additional day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $5000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $5000
- For each additional day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $5000
Case Responses
Kenalog Injection results in need for extensive surgery (Case #122)
- Medical Probability: 9 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: I believe that the error here has to do with the way the physician dermatologist performed the injections (too deep), considering that the need for scar improvement was superficial.
- Causation Probability: 8 / 10
- Causation Summary: A plastic surgeon would be able to better speak to this, as I am not familiar with the possible causes of breast implant rupture. The mitigating circumstances in this case would be the other possible...
- Expert Summary: I have been consistently doing dermatology medical expert witness work since 2014, while maintaining an excellent, top-of-the-line reputation.
- Similar Summary: This would be a first ... but not the first time I've been an expert on a case that's "a first."
Failure to diagnose squamous cell carcinoma (Case #237)
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Earliest picture is 3/14/2011. Latest picture is 11/12/2012. This should've been biopsied after roughly 6 months due to its longstanding / recalcitrant / worsening nature. With the pictures provide...
- Causation Probability: 10 / 10
- Causation Summary: For sure, delay in proper diagnosis led to a much more involved / significant treatment, including putting the patient at increased risk for metastasis.
- Expert Summary: I've served as an expert witness on numerous dermatology-related cases, both for plaintiffs and defendants. I've done everything from reviewing cases for merit to depositions to testifying.
- Similar Summary: In practice, I encountered venous ulcers a couple of times per year. However, cutaneous SCC on the other hand, was seen and/or treated on a nearly daily basis.
