Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Neurological Surgery
Area of Expertise: Complex Spine, Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Stimulators, Brain Aneurysms, Brain Tumors, Stroke, Spinal Pain Syndromes
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2012
City of Practice: New Orleans
State of Practice: Louisiana
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 8
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 4
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 3
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 2
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: -
Year of Completion: -
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: -
Current Academic Affiliation: -
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: -
Number of Publications on PubMed: -
Professional Organizations: -
Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $550
- $3000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $1200
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $3500
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $1000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $2000
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $2000
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $9000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
- For each additional day: $9000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $2000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $9999
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3000
- For each additional day: $9000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $3000
Case Responses
Failure to do duraplasty during decompression for Chiari I (Case #264)
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: There is a body of literature supporting Chiari decompression without duraplasty. The risk of recurrence is higher, but the morbidity is lower. Duraplasty involves additional risk as was evident by he...
- Causation Probability: 3 / 10
- Causation Summary: Causation in relation to the patient's reported decline would be very hard to demonstrate. The patient was diagnosed with Chairi malformation which is congenital and would have had pressure on the br...
- Expert Summary: I trained with the top experts in this surgery (Dr Edward Oldfield, former NIH Director of Neurosurgery). I have participated in detailed studies of the technique using intraoperative MRI to check the...
- Similar Summary: I perform 2-3 per month including revisions from other surgeons. I have encountered several hundred during my career.
