Expert Information

Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes

Degree:

Specialty / Subspecialty:

  • Neurology  -  Neurocritical Care

Area of Expertise: Stroke, traumatic brain injury, intracerebral hemorrhage, brain injury, spinal cord injury, conscious pain and suffering, neurocritical care, subarachnoid hemorrhage

Year of Medical Training Completion: 2014

City of Practice: NEW YORK

State of Practice: New York

Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes

Type of Practice: Academic

  • Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 10
  • Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 10
  • Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 3
  • Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 3

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

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Fee Schedule

Medical Record Review:

Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation

  • $600
  • $2400

Independent Medical Examination:

Independent Medical Examination with written report

  • Per Hour: $1500

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): $1500

Trial (InState):

  • Initial day: $7500
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $7500
  • For each additional day: $7500
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $7500
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $7500

Trial (Out of State):

  • Initial day: $9500
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $9500
  • For each additional day: $7500
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $7500
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $7500

Case Responses

Cervical Injection/Spinal injury (Case #273)

  • Medical Probability: 7 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: There is MRI evidence of spinal cord injury. This would cause weakness, numbness, loss of balance etc. Radiography should be evaluated for a needle track puncture into the spinal cord which would expl...
  • Causation Probability: 7 / 10
  • Causation Summary: There is MRI evidence of spinal cord injury. This would cause weakness, numbness, loss of balance etc. Radiography should be evaluated for a needle track puncture into the spinal cord which would expl...
  • Expert Summary: I am a board certified neurologist and neurocritical care physician at an academic medical center. I take care of hundreds of patients with spinal cord injury per year and in doing so evaluate the cau...
  • Similar Summary: I take care of 100s of patients with spinal cord injury per year.

Failure to adequately monitor for increasing intracranial pressure following intracranial bleed (Case #280)

  • Medical Probability: 4 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: I am a board certified neurologist and neurocritical care physician at an academic medical center. To begin with, there is equipoise when treating patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, especially th...
  • Causation Probability: 4 / 10
  • Causation Summary: 1. No. those are not standard of care and have uncertain reliability. 2. There is equipoise. Some physicians believe Na should be kept elevated, some believe it should only be elevated when patients ...
  • Expert Summary: I am a board certified neurologist and neurocritical care physician at an academic medical center. To begin with, there is equipoise when treating patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, especially th...
  • Similar Summary: I take care of approximately 100 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage per year. I take care of approximately 100 patients with symptomatic intracranial hypertension per year.

Brain injury following AVM Hemorrhage (Case #281)

  • Medical Probability: 4 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: I am a board certified neurologist and neurocritical care physician at an academic medical center. To begin with, there is equipoise when treating patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, especially th...
  • Causation Probability: 4 / 10
  • Causation Summary: 1. No. those are not standard of care and have uncertain reliability. 2. There is equipoise. Some physicians believe Na should be kept elevated, some believe it should only be elevated when patients ...
  • Expert Summary: I am a board certified neurologist and neurocritical care physician at an academic medical center. To begin with, there is equipoise when treating patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, especially th...
  • Similar Summary: I take care of approximately 100 patients with ICH per year. I take care of approximately 100 patients with symptomatic intracranial hypertension per year.

Anti-NMDA encephalitis -- mismanaged? (Case #315)

  • Medical Probability: 5 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: Based on the information provided, I am uncertain. Typically patients with NMDA encephalitis have psychiatric manifestations, though this patient had a prior psych history making that difficulty to in...
  • Causation Probability: 7 / 10
  • Causation Summary: Again, there is too little information to provide an opinion at this time; however, earlier treatment typically improves the outcome.
  • Expert Summary: I am a board certified neurologist and neurocritical care physician at an academic medical center. I have taken care of 10s of patients with NDMA encephalitis and many more with other forms of autoimm...
  • Similar Summary: I have taken care of 10s of patients with NDMA encephalitis and many more with other forms of autoimmune encephalitis.

Bilateral Blindness after Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (Case #338)

  • Medical Probability: 5 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: Based on the sequence of events I am uncertain as to what happened. It would be highly unusual for IIH to cause a stroke. Perhaps she had a dissection as a result of chiropracty? Further records and i...
  • Causation Probability: 8 / 10
  • Causation Summary: Same answer as above. Based on the sequence of events I am uncertain as to what happened. It would be highly unusual for IIH to cause a stroke. Perhaps she had a dissection as a result of chiropracty?...
  • Expert Summary: I am a board certified neurologist and neurocritical care physician at an academic medical center. I have authored over 100 peer reviewed articles on neurological diseases. I have served as an expert ...
  • Similar Summary: I am a hospital based neurologist at an academic medical center. I take care of complex and high-risk patients such as this on a daily basis.

59yo F to ER for L sided weakness, dx new CVA, not seen by neurology for 5 days. (Case #384)

  • Medical Probability: 9 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: It seems as though there was a long delay for the neurologist to see the patient.
  • Causation Probability: 3 / 10
  • Causation Summary: Even though there was a delay in getting a neurologist to evaluate the patient, based on the information provided, I don't think it led to harm.
  • Expert Summary: I am a board certified neurologist and neurocritical care physician at an academic medical center. I have authored over 100 peer reviewed articles on neurological diseases. I have served as an expert ...
  • Similar Summary: I am a board certified neurologist and neurocritical care physician at an academic medical center. I take care of approximately 500 patients with stroke per year.

Delay in diagnosis of TIA/impending stroke, failure to treat? (Case #404)

  • Medical Probability: 2 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: This is a wake up stroke. He was neither a candidate for tPA nor thrombectomy. His only option anti platelet therapy which more likely than not was not going to change his outcome. Moreover, his sympt...
  • Causation Probability: 2 / 10
  • Causation Summary: This is a wake up stroke. He was neither a candidate for tPA nor thrombectomy. His only option anti platelet therapy which more likely than not was not going to change his outcome. Moreover, his sympt...
  • Expert Summary: I am a neurologist at a tertiary care academic medical center. I have authored over 100 peer reviewed articles on stroke. I have served as an expert on over 100 cases, both for the defense and plainti...
  • Similar Summary: Many times. This is a typical case of a posterior fossa stroke. I have seen cases like this many times.

Failure to timely administer tPA to patient on Eliquis (Case #510)

  • Medical Probability: 2 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: In 2025, current use of eliquis is a contraindication to tPA. Ongoing studies are investigating whether it can be given safely but right now giving tPA to a patient on Eliquis would not be standard of...
  • Causation Probability: 2 / 10
  • Causation Summary: See above. No SOC breach --> no causation.
  • Expert Summary: I am a board-certified neurologist at an academic medical center (one of the top neuroscience institute in country) and my role is a stroke attending.
  • Similar Summary: I take care of 100s of patients who present with acute stroke symptoms.