Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Pediatrics - Pediatric Pulmonology
Area of Expertise: Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, airway, Respiratory failure, pulmonary hypertension, ventilator, cough, foreign body
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2000
City of Practice: PENSACOLA
State of Practice: Florida
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 10
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 10
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 5
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 5
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: -
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Fellowship: -
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Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: -
Current Academic Affiliation: -
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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
- $5000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: -
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: -
- 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):
- 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
Death of 16 Year Old / Possible HHT (Case #207)
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: A chest x-ray should have been ordered in September/October by the pediatric pulmonologist. This would have helped to diagnose the patient many months earlier. An ECHO of the heart would have been don...
- Causation Probability: 10 / 10
- Causation Summary: If patient was diagnosed in September/October 2018 treatment would have started earlier. Pulmonary hypertension is a progressive disease and initiation of early treatment is life saving. Patient might...
- Expert Summary: I have many years of experience in cases like this. I treated many kids with pulmonary hypertension and also involved in their lung transplantation. I served as the medical director of one of the larg...
- Similar Summary: Not very often since this is a rare disease but I would say around 2-3 per year.
6yo Recurrent Pediatric Asthma Episodes Ending in Sudden Death (Case #519)
- Medical Probability: 1 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Patient improved with treatment and was released from ER properly
- Causation Probability: 1 / 10
- Causation Summary: Same response as above. Patient improved with treatment and was released from the er properly
- Expert Summary: I’m a board certified pediatric pulmonologist with 26 years of experience
- Similar Summary: Frequently , I see similar cases all the time
5yo M Delayed Appendicitis Diagnosis, Rupture, Resection (Case #524)
- Medical Probability: 2 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Because abdominal exam was normal, soft nontender
- Causation Probability: 2 / 10
- Causation Summary: Abdomen was soft and nontender
- Expert Summary: I’m a board certified pediatrician
- Similar Summary: Not too often but I do see this
