Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Anesthesiology
Area of Expertise: Major Vascular Surgery, Transplantation Medicine, Transfusion Medicine
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1984
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: 2
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 1
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
- 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: -
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Fellowship: -
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Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: -
Current Academic Affiliation: -
Distinguishing Achievements
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Number of Publications on PubMed: -
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Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $400
- $1000
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: 3 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The patient's blood pressure was in the normal range immediately prior to induction of anesthesia, indicating that the patient had responded appropriately to the preoperative anti-hypertensive medicat...
- Causation Probability: 2 / 10
- Causation Summary: Of course it is difficult to comment fully without having seen the anesthesia/surgical record. But assuming there was no intraoperative hypotension of significance beyond what is provided in the case ...
- Expert Summary: 35 years experience with General Anesthesia in a major academic center. Member of the departmental QA committee.
- Similar Summary: This is an uncommon, but not rare, and very well described complication of spine surgery
