Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease
Area of Expertise: Infectious diseases
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2012
City of Practice: NEW YORK
State of Practice: New York
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: No
Type of Practice: Academic
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
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Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $400
- $-
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
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Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
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- 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):
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- 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):
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- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
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- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
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Case Responses
Cryptococcus neoformans (Case #142)
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: It is difficult to make that judgement based on the case details. Patients with cryptococcal meningitis typically present with fever, neck stiffness, photophobia, and other signs of CNS infection, an...
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: As details above, a medical error seems unlikely based on the provided details.
- Expert Summary: I am an infectious diseases physician who has treated 20-30 cases of cryptococcal infection.
- Similar Summary: I see a new patient with a cryptococcal infection every 2-3 months.
Serratia marcescens bacteremia and death (Case #182)
- Medical Probability: 5 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Serratia infections may sometimes occur in hospitalized patients who are severely ill for other reasons, and the presence of this infection does not necessarily suggest a medical error. More informati...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: Again, it is not clear from the details provided if a medical error occurred, but it seems like the infection did lead to the patient’s death.
- Expert Summary: I am a practicing infectious diseases physician with 7 years of experience caring for critically ill hospitalized patients. I have treated Serratia infections many times.
- Similar Summary: I treat bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients almost every day.
Delay in treatment of p. falciparum malaria -- did it make a difference? (Case #265)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: I think the major issues in this case are the time between when the parasite smear was sent and when a result returned, and the time to start artesunate. A parasite smear is a simple test that only...
- Causation Probability: 5 / 10
- Causation Summary: I don't think it's possible to definitely argue that, since the risk of complications is high with that degree of parasitemia even when starting effective therapy sooner.
- Expert Summary: I'm an infectious diseases physician in practice for 9 years.
- Similar Summary: I see malaria rarely, about once per year.
SBO – Intra-op small bowel tear w/ Rapid Deterioration, Sepsis, and Death w/in 36 Hours (Case #312)
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: There are many details and decision points presented for this case. In regards to the issue of peri-operative antibiotic timing, I do not think that the time from small bowel perforation to the initia...
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: As detailed above, I don’t think that there is sufficient evidence to say that an error has occurred
- Expert Summary: I frequently care for patients with infectious complications following surgery.
- Similar Summary: I encounter cases like this on a weekly basis.
- Medical Probability: 2 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: While cefepime may lower the seizure threshold and predispose to encephalopathy and non-convulsive status epilepticus, the choice of cefepime in this case seems to have been appropriate, and, per the ...
- Causation Probability: 1 / 10
- Causation Summary: As stated above, I do not see evidence of a medical error in the given text. Furthermore, cefepime-induced encephalopathy typically resolves after cessation of the drug, so there may have been other f...
- Expert Summary: I am a practicing infectious diseases physician with over 10 years of experience caring for inpatients with severe infections, including critically ill patients admitted to the ICU. I have prescribed ...
- Similar Summary: I encounter cases similar to this patient's initial presentation at least once per week.
