Expert Information

Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes

Degree: M.D.

Specialty / Subspecialty:

  • Internal Medicine  -  Infectious Disease

Area of Expertise: Infectious diseases, Microbiology, Vaccines, Tropical medicine, Malaria, Parasites, Internal medicine, International health

Year of Medical Training Completion: 1994

City of Practice: NEW HAVEN

State of Practice: Connecticut

Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes

Type of Practice: Academic

  • Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 4
  • Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 4
  • Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 1
  • Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 2

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: -

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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: -

Professional Organizations: -

Fee Schedule

Medical Record Review:

Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation

  • $650
  • $3250

Independent Medical Examination:

Independent Medical Examination with written report

  • Per Hour: $1000

Deposition in office:

Deposition: Discovery/Evidence

  • First two hours: $2600
  • For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $1300
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $1300
  • Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1300

Trial (InState):

  • Initial day: $6000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3000
  • For each additional day: $2000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1000
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $3000

Trial (Out of State):

  • Initial day: $9000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $4500
  • For each additional day: $6000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3000
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $6000

Case Responses

Serratia marcescens bacteremia and death (Case #182)

  • Medical Probability: 4 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: Cases of nosocomial bacteremiia due to Serratia most often would be related to a line infection. Other sources could be mediastinitis after sternotomy. The source of infection was not defined in the s...
  • Causation Probability: 5 / 10
  • Causation Summary: See above. We do not have have sufficient information about the case given the above to be able to make a judgment about medical error.
  • Expert Summary: Extensive experience in highly complex cases such as this, and an effective, clear and concise objective communicator. I also have substantial experience advising attorneys on complex cases such as th...
  • Similar Summary: 6-12 times per year. Such scenarios are fairly common in my experience.

MRSA epidural abscess (Case #257)

  • Medical Probability: 4 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: It is likely and plausible that the initial MRSA during the first hospital stay seeded the back to cause the second identified infection. The duration and type of antibiotics need to be identified and...
  • Causation Probability: 4 / 10
  • Causation Summary: See above. I think that this patient had bad luck and unlikely was victim of medical error. Unless the antibiotic duration was not enough or back pain was ignored I don’t (yet) evidence of medical e...
  • Expert Summary: I have seen hundreds of similar cases. I have been an extraordinarily effective expert in supporting the side that picks me; following the facts my position as a Yale professor evidently is very convi...
  • Similar Summary: Several times monthly. This syndrome is common in my practice.

BBL with septic thromboemboli. (Case #263)

  • Medical Probability: 9 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: This is a case of a 34 year old woman who died from infectious complications of a lipoplasty procedure, with evident mismanagement throughout the case. There appears to be malpractice and poor surgica...
  • Causation Probability: 9 / 10
  • Causation Summary: It seems that there was lack of proper diagnostics--imaging--, surgical drainage. I would need to know more about what microbiological results were obtained, and what was missing, what antimicrobial s...
  • Expert Summary: I am a highly accomplished infectious disease expert with particular strengths in complex cases such the one described. I am expert in clinical practice and in microbiology. I write well and commun...
  • Similar Summary: often--this is pretty standard stuff, this case is particularly notable for the bad outcome, I have seen probably 20-30 such cases in 20 years of practice--I practiced for 15+ years in San Diego, CA, ...

Delay in treatment of p. falciparum malaria -- did it make a difference? (Case #265)

  • Medical Probability: 5 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: This patient had plasmodium falciparum malaria. There was a modest Delay in treatment but I don’t think that treatment started four or eight hours earlier would’ve led to a difference in clinical ...
  • Causation Probability: 5 / 10
  • Causation Summary: See above this is an unfortunate outcome of this case of malaria it is not uncommon in probably is standard of care in a community where Larry is a very rare disease.
  • Expert Summary: I am one of the leading malaria experts in the United States. I’ve seen many cases of malaria and Principal investigator of a nih funded Malaria center of excellence based in South America for the p...
  • Similar Summary: Once to twice a year In the United States but also in Peru where I work as well where I see more cases in the field setting in the Amazon