Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Neurology - Vascular Neurology
Area of Expertise: stroke, TIA, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, cerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, stroke prevention, acute stroke treatment, thrombolytic therapy
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1986
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: 100
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 40
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 20
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 15
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: Medical College of Wisconsin
Year of Completion: 1981
Residency: University of Michigan Medical Center
Year of Completion: 1985
Fellowship: NIH Center for Stroke Research/Henry Ford Health Science Center
Year of Completion: 1987
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: SUNY Distinguished Professor & Executive Vice Chair Neurology
Current Academic Affiliation: SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: Best Doctors in America, multiple named teaching and clinical awards
Number of Publications on PubMed: 250
Professional Organizations: AHA, AAN, ANA
Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $750
- $1500
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $2500
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $2400
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $1200
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $2400
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $2400
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $7500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $7500
- For each additional day: $7500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3750
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $5000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $7500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $7500
- For each additional day: $7500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3750
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $5000
Case Responses
Failure to timely administer tPA to patient on Eliquis (Case #510)
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: package inset on DOAC says thrombolysis contraindicated if given within 5 days of last dose recently registry data suggests that benefit of thrombolysis on DOAC is similar to not on DOAC with not sig...
- Causation Probability: 2 / 10
- Causation Summary: no clear evidence that thrombolysis adds significantly to the effect of thrombectomy alone for LVO - perhaps a little
- Expert Summary: vascular neurologist with 40 years of academic clinical trials experience, part of the NINDS rt-PA Stroke Trial in the 1990s that led to FDA approval, current of this medical literature hard to fight...
- Similar Summary: several times a year, some of which it is unclear if they actually took the DOAC and some took it the same day and some 1-2 days prior
