Expert Information

Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes

Degree:

Specialty / Subspecialty:

  • Orthopaedic Surgery

Area of Expertise: Hip and Knee Replacement

Year of Medical Training Completion: 2016

City of Practice: HAYS

State of Practice: Kansas

Previous Experience As Expert Witness: No

Type of Practice: Non-Academic

Available to Review Cases: Yes, only for the defendant

Available to Be Deposed: Yes, only for the defendant

Available to Testify In Trial: Yes, only for the defendant

Training and Additional Credentials

Medical School: Columbia University

Year of Completion: 2008

Residency: Howard University Hospital

Year of Completion: 2013

Fellowship: New England Baptist Hospital

Year of Completion: 2014

Academic / Leadership Information

Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: Clinical Assistant Professor

Current Academic Affiliation: University of Kansas

Distinguishing Achievements

Awards: -

Number of Publications on PubMed: 5

Professional Organizations: AAOS, AAHKS

Fee Schedule

Medical Record Review:

Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation

  • $750
  • $2500

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

Right Total Knee Replacement Surgery Follow-Up Care (14 Years Later) - Hardware Washout and Reinserting Same Hardware (Case #487)

  • Medical Probability: 6 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: Medical error if procedure truly involved removing the polyethylene liner and then reimplantating the removed liner
  • Causation Probability: 6 / 10
  • Causation Summary: Medical error if procedure truly involved removing the polyethylene liner and then reimplantating the removed liner. This is more so if the patient had a washout which is a procedure for infection.
  • Expert Summary: Hip and knee replacement surgeon with experience performing revision surgeries to include knee washouts
  • Similar Summary: Never encountered a case where the removed polyethylene liner was removed and replanted in a case of a washout…presumably for infection

anterior hip replacement that resulted in a nerve root injury with severe disability, sciatic and femoral nerve dysfunction and foot drop (Case #515)

  • Medical Probability: 5 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: Would need more information to be able to say for sure. However, it is extremely rare to have a sciatic nerve injury from an anterior approach hip replacement as the sciatic nerve is in a posterior lo...
  • Causation Probability: 5 / 10
  • Causation Summary: As above. Would need more information. However, the symptoms described involving the entire lower extremity are not consistent with injury to the sciatic nerve at the level of the hip joint. This is a...
  • Expert Summary: I am a fellowship trained hip and knee replacement surgeon with over 10 years of experience, and routinely perform hip replacement surgeries through the anterior and posterior approaches.
  • Similar Summary: I have never encountered a case of sciatic nerve palsy from the anterior approach.