Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: DO
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Orthopaedic Surgery
Area of Expertise: Spine
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2014
City of Practice: HOLLYWOOD
State of Practice: Florida
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 4
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 10
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 10
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
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Residency: -
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Fellowship: -
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Academic / Leadership Information
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Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $1000
- $1000
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
Severed ureter during anterior diskectomy and interbody fusion (Case #295)
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The standard of care is to identify the anatomy and protect it
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: This should have been easily seen prior to discharge
- Expert Summary: I’m a board certified Otho spine surgeon
- Similar Summary: Not often seen but has happened
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The wire misplaced and the prosthetic misplaced as well should have been noted during the surgery and investigates at the time. The injured vessel should have been addressed at that point as well as ...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: See above please. The wire hitting the artery would have caused a hematoma that should have been noticed prior to discharge. In addition. X-rays would show the prostheses in the incorrect position
- Expert Summary: I think a Joint surgeon is a better fit to be honest. I have experience in this area but not as of recent
- Similar Summary: Not often. This is not a common finding (misplacement of the prosthesis)
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: In a total knee patient especially a diabetic. Who presents with a health change. Period it is not acceptable to just apply ice. At the very minimum this. Patient should’ve had an ultrasound done. A...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: If she was diagnosed earlier. She most likely would’ve been taken to the operating room. And debrided. I’m uncertain if this would have ultimately prevented the amputation.
- Expert Summary: I’m in board-certified orthopedic surgeon. However, I do not do total knee replacements.
- Similar Summary: This is something that we have trained, and I’ve seen often during our training. The treatment remains the same for these infections.
Nicked lung during Kyphoplasty procedure. (Case #449)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The kyphplasty procedure requires identification of the bony anatomy. The needle must be targeted on an orthogonal views. And the needle must be placed into the bone with deployment of the balloon a...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: Prior to deployment of the cement. The surgeon must confirm the appropriate placement of the needle and the balloon. It appears from the description that this was not performed. Most likely due to ina...
- Expert Summary: I have done these procedures for many years. I’ve even been featured on the news for a new or more advanced technique called the spine system.
- Similar Summary: This is not a complication that I see often
46yo F Lumbar spine surgery: Missed Compression, Paralysis. Ortho spinal surgery only please. (Case #514)
- Medical Probability: 9 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: If the compressive source was postoperative hematoma and/or a fixed canal-compromising fragment (bone/bone graft/cement), earlier decompression (closer to onset or shortly after the 00:06 CT) more lik...
- Causation Probability: 9 / 10
- Causation Summary: failure to clearly document what was found and removed in the canal (hematoma volume/location, disc fragment, bone/bone graft/cement, hardware-related compression) is a documentation deficiency relati...
- Expert Summary: I’m a board certified orthopedic Spine Surgeon. I do these procedures on a weekly basis. Furthermore there should not have been a confusion between a spinal cord stimulator and a drain. These are ve...
- Similar Summary: These are not common findings. Surgeons are usually very attentive to the postoperative neurological changes of patience. These are very avoidable. Or at least treated nearly immediately in the postop...
