Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree:
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery - Congenital Cardiac Surgery
Area of Expertise: congenital cardiac surgery
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2003
City of Practice: CHICAGO
State of Practice: Illinois
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 20
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 30
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 5
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: Catholic University of Rome
Year of Completion: 1991
Residency: Stanford University
Year of Completion: 2002
Fellowship: GOSH London UK
Year of Completion: 2003
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: Professor of Surgery
Current Academic Affiliation: University of Chicago
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: -
Number of Publications on PubMed: 130
Professional Organizations: All pertinent societies in my field
Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $500
- $2000
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
**PEDIATRIC CT SURG EXPERTS ONLY** PDA Closure failed, contraindicated equipment? (Case #504)
- Medical Probability: 3 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Two issues are at stake here: 1] appropriateness of the device chosen. Utilizing an ADO is not apparently contraindicated, and waiting longe for the "child to be bigger" would not have made a differ...
- Causation Probability: 10 / 10
- Causation Summary: causation is fairly straightforward (see above). Clearly the Anoxic brain injury occurred because of the location of the device embolization. If the device had embolized in one of the branches or eve...
- Expert Summary: I am a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon with subspecialty certification in congenital cardiac surgery, with 23 years of experience post-training. I have retrieved a fair amount of embolized dev...
- Similar Summary: 5 cases (at least). i have retrieved devices from the left heart, aorta, pulmonary artery and right ventricle
