Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology
Area of Expertise: endoscopy, gastroentertology
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2004
City of Practice: INDIANAPOLIS
State of Practice: Indiana
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 6
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 4
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 1
- 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: -
Residency: -
Year of Completion: -
Fellowship: -
Year of Completion: -
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: director, professor
Current Academic Affiliation: Indiana University
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: master endoscopist award
Number of Publications on PubMed: 340
Professional Organizations: ASGE, AGA, ESGE, ACG
Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $650
- $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
57yo M Colonoscopy Complicated by Perforated Viscus (Case #546)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: use of hot biopsy technique has been abandoned a long time ago due to risk of perforation. multiple devices used t remove small polyps? should not be the case--only cold snares
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: use of hot biopsy technique has been abandoned a long time ago due to risk of perforation. multiple devices used t remove small polyps? should not be the case--only cold snares
- Expert Summary: extensive endoscopy expertise, professor, medical director and long history of legal reviews, extensive publication record
- Similar Summary: a few a year --colonoscopy related perforations are rare in good hands but in a busy practice can be seen
Potential negligent treatment of acute pancreatitis resulting in multiorgan failure. (Case #575)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: I believe this patient showed signs of severe disease from the beginning so should have been monitored very closely in an ICU setting (volume status, I/O, Hct, kidney Fxn and intravascular volume whic...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: Intensive early monitoring and anticipation of serious adverse events was warranted from the beginning.
- Expert Summary: 20+ years of pancreatology and advanced endoscopy, Director of one of the largest pancreas units in the country and Professor of medicine with tenure with experience in legal case reviews.
- Similar Summary: we trate patients with severe complicated pancreatitis on weekly to every other week basis and have the full spectrum of support services needed (surgery endoscopy ICU nutrition support... etc)
