Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: D.O.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Pain Medicine
Area of Expertise: Pain Management, Pain Injections, Spine Procedures, Spine Injections, Kyphoplasty, Pain Medicine
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2016
City of Practice: PORT JEFFERSON
State of Practice: New York
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: No
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
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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Academic / Leadership Information
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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
- $750
- $1500
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: -
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $1500
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $750
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $1500
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $500
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
- For each additional day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $5000
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
Wrong-level kyphoplasty (Case #253)
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: This appears to be a very cut and dry case of wrong-site surgery. This results in harm to the patient as they were exposed to all the risks of the procedure and possibly anesthesia without any benefit...
- Causation Probability: 10 / 10
- Causation Summary: Performing the surgery at the wrong site is in itself an injury.
- Expert Summary: I have extensive experience performing kyphoplasties for over 6 years. I routinely perform them almost every week in my practice. I have experience with almost every major system on the market.
- Similar Summary: I personally have never performed a wrong-site kyphoplasty.
Possible intrathecal fentanyl overdose (Case #283)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Determining if a medical error occurred is difficult with the given information. To determine if the procedure was performed correctly I would need to examine the operative report as well as any i...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: Again I would need more information to determine.
- Expert Summary: I am a dual board-certified pain management with significant experience trialing, implanting, and managing pain pumps.
- Similar Summary: I perform pump trials on a regular basis every few months.
60yo Male has "plasma rhizotomy" for chronic hip pain, has immediate evidence of nerve injury (Case #388)
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The procedure in question that was performed is a deviation of the standard of care in pain management. From the operative description, it seems this surgeon performed a variation of a standard radiof...
- Causation Probability: 10 / 10
- Causation Summary: In the operative report it is noted that ultrasound guidance was used to identify and mark out the femoral neurovascular bundle to avoid injury during the procedure. This is standard best practice. Ho...
- Expert Summary: I am a pain management physician with over 10 years of experience and routinely perform radiofrequency ablation procedures similar to the procedure in question.
- Similar Summary: This procedure is a variation on traditional radiofrequency ablation, a procedure I perform on a weekly basis in my practice.
- Medical Probability: 5 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Based on the limited available information I have, I am unable to make a clear determination of medical error. The op report indicated general anesthesia was used, which would be a deviation of standa...
- Causation Probability: 5 / 10
- Causation Summary: Again, I am unable to make a determination of error from the available information with any certainty.
- Expert Summary: I am a board-certified pain management physician with over 10 years experience performing spinal cord stimulator trials and implants. I am on faculty for multiple spinal cord stimulator device compani...
- Similar Summary: Fortunately, I have never performed a spinal cord stimulator trial or implant that resulted in injury.
