Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Surgery (General Surgery) - Surgical Critical Care
Area of Expertise: Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Traumatic Brain Injury, Geriatric trauma, Ventilator management
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1992
City of Practice: Upland
State of Practice: Pennsylvania
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 1
- 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: -
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Residency: -
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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
- $500
- $3000
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
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Patient probably required intubation to decrease work of breathing. Broncoscopy also could have been facilitated and performed after intubation. Good possibility of significant bronchial injury and he...
- Causation Probability: 10 / 10
- Causation Summary: Sounds as though he was neglected, inappropriately under assessed and mistreated.He should have been transferred based on mechanism, initial stability and degree of chest injuries. He should have been...
- Expert Summary: 30 years of trauma/surgical critical care experience. One of my specific interest is in chest wall injury/rib fracture stabilization surgery.
- Similar Summary: Rib fractures almost daily, rib fractures with significant chest wall/lung injury and hemothorax several per month.
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: SBO was mismanaged! Seems as though they sat on high grade SBO too long. Patient in addition developed a stress gastritis that led to his UGIB in association with probable significant electrolyte imba...
- Causation Probability: 8 / 10
- Causation Summary: High grade SBO with electrolyte imbalance led to possible aspiration and stress gastritis. He failed conservative management and should have been in the OR. He was not going to ambulate in his debilit...
- Expert Summary: Acute care surgeon, trauma surgeon with critical care board certification. for about 30 yrs
- Similar Summary: Almost weekly we see SBO . Several times per month we see high grade SBO as well.
52yo female right thyroid lobectomy and isthmusectomy, has significant burn injury to neck. (Case #399)
- Medical Probability: 9 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Patient sustained a cautery burn perhaps when flap s were created or while obtaining hemostasis. Could have been excised at time of surgery! At minimum should have been disclosed in the recover room o...
- Causation Probability: 8 / 10
- Causation Summary: It’s an obvious cautery burn of the skin. Could have been dealt with at time of surgery completion under anesthesia!
- Expert Summary: Trauma surgeon that deals with neck injuries that required neck incisions and injury repairs within the neck
- Similar Summary: Rarely, but if I did, unless very unstable patient, would correct it at time of surgery
Failure to properly monitor patient for potential bowel perforation following MVA and discharging early. (Case #421)
- Medical Probability: 9 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Patient was a restrained driver in MVC, with typical presentation of hollow viscus injury/mesenteric injury after blunt trauma. He complained over time of lower abdominal pain that progressed over tim...
- Causation Probability: 8 / 10
- Causation Summary: He developed perforation with development of severe sepsis due to delay in laparotomy. Injury may have been fixable primarily, rather then need for colostomy and resection. He should have been observe...
- Expert Summary: I have been a Trauma Medical Director for many years, caring for many patients with this type of injury mechanism. Fellowship trained in Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.
- Similar Summary: 10 -20 cases/year of RD/MVC presenting with seat belt sign and abdominal pain.
