Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: D.O.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Internal Medicine - Cardiology
Area of Expertise: Interventional cardiology (PCI/STEMI/CTO/OCT/IVUS/Atherectomy), Structural cardiology (TAVR, mitral clip, PFO closure), Nuclear cardiology (SPECT/PET), Echocardiography (TEE/TTE), RPVI (peripheral non- invasive testing), Peripheral intervention, General cardiology
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2010
City of Practice: AMITYVILLE
State of Practice: New York
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: No
Type of Practice: Non-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
Training and Additional Credentials
Medical School: New York college of osteopathic medicine
Year of Completion: 2005
Residency: St Vincent’s catholic medical center
Year of Completion: 2008
Fellowship: Winthrop’s university hospital - now NYU LANGONE LONG ISLAND
Year of Completion: 2014
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: -
Current Academic Affiliation: -
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: -
Number of Publications on PubMed: 4
Professional Organizations: -
Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $600
- $3500
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: -
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $5000
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: -
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $2000
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1000
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
Preoperative clearance prior to elective hysterectomy. (Case #429)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: I’m not sure why the decision to preform surgery while still not controlled with BP. Were there any other issues - coagulopathy, other risk factors. Did IR do a consult? Can that be provid...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: I’m not sure why there was an urgency to preform hysterectomy when BP was still not relatively controlled. I feel IR would have been the more sensible choice to temporize until things were more sta...
- Expert Summary: I have >10 years of experience as an interventional cardiologist. I am boarded in cardiology, interventional cardiology, echo, and nuclear cardiology. My perspective comes because I am not boxed int...
- Similar Summary: Often enough, I take roughly 100 stemi calls a year and deal with life/death situations regularly. I believe in motivation of risk to patients.. I’m a second generation cardiologist - I work with ...
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The heart rate should have triggered an ekg or further evaluation
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: Earlier diagnosis might have meant earlier treatment and not transplant
- Expert Summary: I’m an interventional cardiologist
- Similar Summary: It’s rare - twice in my ten years - but we’re early detections and treatment however.
AV fistula during venous venoplasty and stenting of left common Iliac vein & left external Iliac vein. (Case #539)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: I think it’s very start to have a fistula for stenting of the left iliac, was this measured/ivus?
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: I’m not sure how you can’t fix this open
- Expert Summary: I treat May Thurner and symptomatic fistulas
- Similar Summary: Haven’t seen cases like this. But I’ve seen procedures to fix these issues
Cardiology Plan of Care (Case #567)
- Medical Probability: 5 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The man is in very poor overall health. The fact that the troponin, which if it is HS-troponin - is elevated, but not at the level of an NSTEMI and certainly not a stemi However - the cardiologist...
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: Patient is very poor protoplasm
- Expert Summary: I’m an interventional cardiologist - seen this happen many times
- Similar Summary: Just had a similar case - but I put in impella due to a very high lvedp - patient ended up with surgery - he is still alive
Potential negligence in the management of cardiogenic shock (Case #572)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: In someone with a severe cardiac, the and a flutter with rapid ventricular raid, a beta blocker would be probably the better option. Calcium channel blockers may not be indicated, given the severe car...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: It doesn’t seem like anyone is really paying attention other than to try and get the heart rate to be lower. Without regard to the biventricular dysfunction, I think that this may yield to him havin...
- Expert Summary: I would go over every aspect to see where the errors occurred and to see how this was negligent
- Similar Summary: When people are sick and people do not pay attention to what’s going on bad things happen, more often than not - things are swept under the rug
