Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree:
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Anesthesiology - Pain Medicine
Area of Expertise: Anesthesiology, Pain Management
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1986
City of Practice: Charlottesville
State of Practice: Virginia
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 1
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 10
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 1
- 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: No
Training and Additional Credentials
Medical School: -
Year of Completion: -
Residency: -
Year of Completion: -
Fellowship: -
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Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: -
Current Academic Affiliation: -
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: -
Number of Publications on PubMed: -
Professional Organizations: -
Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $400
- $750
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
Intra-operative hypotension resulting in decreased spinal cord perfusion and paraplegia (Case #136)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Bad outcome case. Surgeons and anesthesiologists would point fingers at each other, so details are all important. Surgeons often have bad outcomes from spine surgery even if everything (from a surgery...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: Intraoperative hypotension is the key feature of the case which points the finger at the anesthesia management. However, a much stronger case would be made if spinal cord imaging (MRI) is able to demo...
- Expert Summary: My anesthesiology training involved specialty focus on neuroanesthesia and spinal cord monitoring. (including somatosensory evoked potentials, or SSEP). My pain management training acquainted me with ...
- Similar Summary: I have seen an treated patients (in pain management) who have experienced poor outcomes from spinal surgery of various causes.
Endocarditis and lumbar osteomyelitis after epidural steroid injections (Case #180)
- Medical Probability: 9 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: There is a high probability that the epidural procedure introduced a bacterial infection. This may have occurred due to several possible reasons: 1. Sterile preparation and maintenance of sterile cond...
- Causation Probability: 9 / 10
- Causation Summary: If there is no proof of pharmacy contamination, then the source of staph bacteria being introduced into the disc space falls on the care provider who performed the epidural injection, by way of faulty...
- Expert Summary: I have been in the practice of interventional pain management from 1987 through 2015, currently retired. I taught residents and fellows in training for 12 of those years. I have performed literally hu...
- Similar Summary: In my 28 years of practice I have never experienced or been involved in a similar situation.
