Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D., MBBS
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Internal Medicine - Cardiology
- Internal Medicine - Interventional Cardiology
Area of Expertise: Interventional cardiology, Cardiology, Internal medicine, heart failure, advanced heart failure, medical imaging, cardiac imaging
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2012
City of Practice: WORCESTER
State of Practice: Massachusetts
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: 1
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 1
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
Awards: -
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: $500
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $1000
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $600
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $3000
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1000
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3000
- For each additional day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $3000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $8000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $5000
- For each additional day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $4000
Case Responses
Failure to properly read CT Angiogram leads to unnecessary surgical procedure (Case #258)
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The coronary CT angiogram provides different information than the invasive coronary angiogram. In the CT , the wall of the vessel can be visualized and frequently coronary artery disease can be notice...
- Causation Probability: 2 / 10
- Causation Summary: No. The medical error did not result in injury. The person making the decision to proceed with the heart catheterization made the judgment call and we many times do not proceed with cardiac catheteriz...
- Expert Summary: I am currently appointed as co-director of cardiac imaging and have training in Cardiac CT and MRI. I work in an academic institution where we read several hundreds of CT scans every year and therefor...
- Similar Summary: We frequently encounter this in our practice. This is not an uncommon scenario.
SFA reocclusion with amputation (Case #288)
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: This is an 81 year old female who has been developing recurrent SFA disease managed by the interventional cardiologist from 2018 - 2022. Over the course, it appears that the interventional cardiologis...
- Causation Probability: 9 / 10
- Causation Summary: 1. The indication for starting IV heparin therapy is not clear. 2. There is delay in obtaining imaging and evaluation of the limb
- Expert Summary: I will make a good expert because 1. I am interventional cardiologist with experience in treating the patients with vascular disease 2. I believe that patient or doctor should be properly represent...
- Similar Summary: This particular occurrence is a rare occurrence however, many of these peripheral disease patients around 5-10% would develop acute limb thrombosis like this patient did. The degree of bleeding on hep...
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Documentation confirms the placement of a 7 F sheath in the severely diseased common femoral artery. Initial diagnostic imaging was performed using 4 F sheath which is a much smaller sheath and was ap...
- Causation Probability: 10 / 10
- Causation Summary: Yes, causation is evident in this case. During the diagnostic angiogram, the operator observed significant disease. However, they focused solely on addressing the inflow disease while neglecting the d...
- Expert Summary: I am an interventional cardiologist with vascular training. I have performed these procedures and have been working as an interventional cardiologist for 6+ years.
- Similar Summary: I often encounter such cases in my practice.
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: In January, the patient's echocardiogram showed abnormal valve gradients that were already quite high. It’s unclear why there was a delay in evaluating the patient until March. By March, the records...
- Causation Probability: 10 / 10
- Causation Summary: There was a delay in this patient's management and treatment. The treatment depends on the symptoms of the patient. If there is documentation or evidence that the patient was symptomatic at the time ...
- Expert Summary: I regularly perform TAVR procedures as well as coronary angiogram/coronary artery stents. I have been doing them since 2017.
- Similar Summary: This situation is not unusual when a patient first shows signs of severe disease who has not been following up with a heart doctor for a while. According to current guidelines, the valve should be mon...
