Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Otolaryngology
Area of Expertise: Aerodigestive, Airway, Aspiration, Tracheostomy, Pediatrics, Dysphagia
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2014
City of Practice: New Hyde Park
State of Practice: New York
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant:
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 1
- 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: -
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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: -
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Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $650
- $1800
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: -
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $1300
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $650
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $1800
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1500
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $8000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $8000
- For each additional day: $8000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $4000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $2000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $8000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $8000
- For each additional day: $8000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $5000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $4000
Case Responses
Unilateral Hearing Loss - Possible Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (Case #208)
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: When the patient presented with dizziness and hearing loss, likely a prompt referral to an audiologist and/or an ENT could have revealed a SSNHL and earlier intervention might have improved the patien...
- Causation Probability: 3 / 10
- Causation Summary: Unlikely that the delay in care actually caused the SSNHL, this was a natural progression of either the viral or bacterial ear disease. The PCP initially gave antibiotics for both infections which wa...
- Expert Summary: I am a pediatric otolaryngologist and see patients similar to this scenario. Unfortunately SSNHL does happen and I have myself given steroids and intratympanic steroids for SSNHL. I am in academic pr...
- Similar Summary: I would say in the pediatric population luckily this is rare. We may seen 1-2 of these per year.
Incomplete stapedectomy worsens hearing loss (Case #351)
- Medical Probability: 3 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: This is a known potential intra-operative finding and the expert opinion is to abort procedure so as not to cause a facial nerve paralysis. What is not clear is if the stapes fenestration encountered...
- Causation Probability: 3 / 10
- Causation Summary: Again need to know if a PLF was created and whether the worsening hearing loss is conductive or sensorineural.
- Expert Summary: I am an otolaryngologist and have done these procedures in the past. Admittedly I no longer do these cases but I am able to at least opine based on the surgical knoweldge.
- Similar Summary: This is well described and discussed at national meetings. I do not do these cases any longer.
