Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology
Area of Expertise: Gastroenterology, Acid reflux, Colon cancer, Difficulty swallowing, GI bleeding, PEG feeding tubes, Colon perforation
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1991
City of Practice: NEW YORK
State of Practice: New York
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 3
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff:
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 2
- 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: 1984
Residency: -
Year of Completion: 1987
Fellowship: -
Year of Completion: 1990
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: -
Current Academic Affiliation: New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: -
Number of Publications on PubMed: -
Professional Organizations: NYSGE, MSSNY, NYCMS, ANMS
Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $450
- $4000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $1500
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $1000
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $450
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $4500
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1500
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2500
- For each additional day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $4500
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2500
- For each additional day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $4500
Case Responses
Internal bleed resulting in death (Case #489)
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: This was a relatively late rebleed assuming she was stable prior to this final episode
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: There was likely no medical error. However I cannot be sure without review of records to see whether vital signs and routine CBC blood work were performed in the four days prior to the final bleeding...
- Expert Summary: Long term experience caring for patients with gastrointestinal bleeding
- Similar Summary: Infrequently now (less than one per year average) as my practice generally focuses on outpatient GI care
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: It is unclear why her emergency note documented an unremarkable abdominal examination given her PCP‘s finding of a tender abdomen with rebound. Was more than one abdominal examination performed duri...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: Appreciating the severity of her diverticulitis sooner might not have prevented the perforation, but might have led to earlier surgical intervention and perhaps a shorter hospitalization.
- Expert Summary: I am a gastroenterologist that treats patients with diverticulitis.
- Similar Summary: I see 1-2 patients a year with uncomplicated diverticulitis. I see complicated diverticulitis, with an abscess or perforation less commonly, perhaps one case every 4-5 years.
