Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Area of Expertise: Congenital heart surgery
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2008
City of Practice: RICHMOND
State of Practice: Virginia
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 20
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 10
- 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: Univ of Cincinnati college of medicine
Year of Completion: 1995
Residency: Indiana university
Year of Completion: 2003
Fellowship: Emory university
Year of Completion: 2004
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: Chief of numerous congenital heart programs
Current Academic Affiliation: Children’s hospital of Virginia at VCU
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: -
Number of Publications on PubMed: 150
Professional Organizations: Sts, aats, wts, stsa, chss
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: -
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: Device migration is a known complication of PDA device placement. The specifics of the device should be addressed by a pediatric Cardiologist/interventionalist Once the device migrated the congeni...
- Causation Probability: 3 / 10
- Causation Summary: I do not believe there was necessarily a medical error. Again device embolization is a known risk of PDA device closure. That being said the migration of the device likely led to the subsequently ...
- Expert Summary: I have been a practicing congenital heart surgeon for over twenty years. Much of that time has been at one of the largest programs in the country. I have done numerous case reviews on both the pl...
- Similar Summary: This particular event is common but does not usually lead to an adverse event. Most often the device migration is inconsequential and the device is retrieved by the interventional Cath team I h...
