Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Disease
Area of Expertise: Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Internal Medicine, Occupational Exposures related to inhalants, Tobacco
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2013
City of Practice: BALTIMORE
State of Practice: Maryland
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 3
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 11
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 1
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 Maryland School of Medicine
Year of Completion: 2010
Residency: Johns Hopkins
Year of Completion: 2013
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins/NIH
Year of Completion: 2018
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: MD, Associate Professor
Current Academic Affiliation: Johns Hopkins
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: Best Doctor for Maryland, 2024
Number of Publications on PubMed: 129
Professional Organizations: American College of Chest Physicians
Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $600
- $1000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $600
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $1000
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $600
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $1000
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $500
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $1200
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
- For each additional day: $1000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $1000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
- For each additional day: $3000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $1000
Case Responses
Potential improper prescription for steroids given history of aortic aneurysm. (Case #573)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: My concern with so much steroid involvement is what was the prescribing physician targeting, given a patient with likely significant cardiopulmonary disease. Coughing is non-specific; the fact it was ...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: Without an identification of what the provider felt they were treating and the lack of further testing (imaging, sputum sample, blood work), my concern is steroids were a reflexive intervention driven...
- Expert Summary: I'm a pulmonary physician, specializing in obstructive lung diseases, refractory chronic cough syndromes, and occupational exposures. In addition, I assist with rare diseases in our arteriovenous malf...
- Similar Summary: Often. Very often. This could easily have been one of my patients.
Potential negligent treatment of acute pancreatitis resulting in multiorgan failure. (Case #575)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: My main concern in reading this, from the lens of being a critical care physician, is the failure to appropriately risk stratify the patient. Such delays create harder to manage cases, as evident by t...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: Failure to risk stratify results in poor management of a patient's clinical phenotype and delay of care. That is what we saw in this case where the patient was not appropriately risk stratified, then ...
- Expert Summary: I'm a critical care physician that practices in medical ICUs, oncology ICUs, and consults in surgical ICUs.
- Similar Summary: Often. Again, this patient could easily have been one in my ICU.
