Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Anesthesiology - Critical Care Medicine
Area of Expertise: Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1995
City of Practice: Charlotte
State of Practice: North Carolina
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 1
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 3
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 2
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: Baylor College of Medicine
Year of Completion: 1990
Residency: VCU/MCV
Year of Completion: 1993
Fellowship: University of Pittsburgh
Year of Completion: 1995
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: Associate Professor,Director
Current Academic Affiliation: MUSC and WVU
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: -
Number of Publications on PubMed: 43
Professional Organizations: Many
Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $600
- $3000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: -
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $1500
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $750
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $3000
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $7500
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 MRSA Vertebral Osteomyelitis, Septic Shock, Cardiac Arrest, and Hypoxic Brain Injury (Case #588)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: First of all, given the decline in neurologic function in the face of new onset compression fracture, as well as evidence of spinal infection, neurosurgery should have been formally consulted for poss...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: Given the above, it is certainly possible that the infection spread leading to sepsis and cardiac arrest although this is not for certain. He certainly had risk factors for underlying heart disease.
- Expert Summary: I am board certified in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and have been in practice for over 30 years, primarily in large academic medical centers. In addition, I have been doing expert witn...
- Similar Summary: Once or twice a month on average.
