Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery - Congenital Cardiac Surgery
Area of Expertise: Congenital heart surgery, Pediatric thoracic surgery, Pectus excavatum, Pediatric heart transplant, Pediatric lung transplant, Button battery injury, Hyperhidrosis, Thoracic outlet
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2008
City of Practice: COLUMBUS
State of Practice: Ohio
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 3
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 1
- 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, 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: University of Nebraska
Year of Completion: 1999
Residency: University of Utah
Year of Completion: 2007
Fellowship: The Ohio State University
Year of Completion: 2010
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: Director clinical services
Current Academic Affiliation: The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: 10
Number of Publications on PubMed: 70
Professional Organizations: 3
Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $600
- $2400
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $600
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $600
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $600
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $2400
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $300
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $2400
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2400
- For each additional day: $2400
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1200
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $2400
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $3600
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2400
- For each additional day: $2400
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1200
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $3600
Case Responses
**PEDIATRIC CT SURG EXPERTS ONLY** PDA Closure failed, contraindicated equipment? (Case #504)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Use of ADO was against contraindications without contemporaneous documentation of either anatomic or other medical need to justify its use. Ironically this large duct would be a reasonable justificati...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: ADO I device was undersized for use in ‘large’ type c duct with operator measurements of 7.7 aorta and 6 mm PA. Would typically require a 10/8 minimum and long tubular type c PDA would better acce...
- Expert Summary: Unfortunately I do not perform PDA device closures.
- Similar Summary: I have encountered the need to retrieve 3 devices after displacement from PDA occlusion in the lab - both in the aorta and the PAs.
