Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Otolaryngology
Area of Expertise: Allergy, Ultrasound guided fna, Thyroid nodules, Migraine, Rhinitis, dizziness, hearing loss
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2004
City of Practice: Scarsdale
State of Practice: New York
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant:
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff:
- 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, only for the defendant
Available to Testify In Trial: Yes, only for the defendant
Training and Additional Credentials
Medical School: -
Year of Completion: -
Residency: -
Year of Completion: -
Fellowship: -
Year of Completion: -
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
- $600
- $4000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $600
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $4000
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $600
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $4000
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $2000
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $8500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $4250
- For each additional day: $8500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $4250
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $8500
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $9000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $9000
- For each additional day: $9000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $9000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $9000
Case Responses
Failure/Delay in Diagnosis of Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma (Case #165)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The finding of unilateral facial pain is a tumor until proven otherwise. I am unsure as to the specialties of the initial evaluating providers - likely neurology, but in the face of many multiple type...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: There was ultimately a delay in diagnosis, but given the type of lesion, its location, and no findings as to its pathologic grade, one cannot assess whether this would have been a likely outcome if it...
- Expert Summary: You need two different types to be most effective, one who is a more general ENT or neurology that can talk about the differential of her facial pain and an oncologist or ENT Head and Neck surgeon who...
- Similar Summary: These are extremely rare and most offices a once in a career type of case.
Incomplete stapedectomy worsens hearing loss (Case #351)
- Medical Probability: 1 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The surgeon made a decision to proceed with the surgery with the idea he could fenestrate the footplate. In many patients the facial nerve can be retracted or worked around. In this instance the...
- Causation Probability: 1 / 10
- Causation Summary: Likely adequate discussion of risks benefits. Known risk of procedure would be to abort procedure. If patient developed facial paralysis may have case, but simply worsening hearing is not.
- Expert Summary: Otolaryngologist with 20 years of clinical practice
- Similar Summary: No not otologist better someone who does regular stapes surgery
