Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Interventional Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology
Area of Expertise: Interventional Radiology, Portal Hypertension, Interventional Oncology, Y90, TACE, Ablation, Nephrostomy Tube Placement, CT and Ultrasound biopsy, Abscess Drain Placement, TIPS, BRTO
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2015
City of Practice: KNOXVILLE
State of Practice: Tennessee
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: 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:
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: -
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: -
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Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $500
- $2000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: -
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $1500
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $750
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $3000
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $3000
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $6000
- For each additional day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $6000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $6000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $6000
- For each additional day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $6000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $6000
Case Responses
Portal vein thrombectomy injury (Case #178)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: It is hard to give a definite opinion on whether a medical error has been made here without more complete information such as the imaging from the procedure and more complete medical records. However...
- Causation Probability: 5 / 10
- Causation Summary: This is a more difficult question than whether a medical error occurred. It seems that the cause of death was from acute liver failure which from the short description of the case may have been cause...
- Expert Summary: An expert who routinely performs transhepatic procedures. These include transhepatic portal interventions such as in this case. However, there are other more common procedures such as percutaneous t...
- Similar Summary: Transhepatic portal interventions for thrombectomy of acute portal vein thrombus are rare. I do approximately 1 per year. The other transhepatic procedures that I describe above are more common. I ...
