Expert Information

Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes

Degree: M.D.

Specialty / Subspecialty:

  • Pediatrics  -  Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Area of Expertise: Neonatology, Pulmonary Hypertension, Birth Asphyxia, Standards of Care in Neonatology, Neonatal Lung Diseases, general Pediatrics Standards of Care, Hospital and NICU standards

Year of Medical Training Completion: 1980

City of Practice: CHICAGO

State of Practice: Illinois

Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes

Type of Practice: Academic

  • Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 10
  • Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 20
  • Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
  • 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

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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

  • $450
  • $5000

Independent Medical Examination:

Independent Medical Examination with written report

  • Per Hour: $450

Deposition in office:

Deposition: Discovery/Evidence

  • First two hours: $1200
  • For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $600
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $5000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $500

Trial (InState):

  • Initial day: $5000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
  • For each additional day: $5000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $5000

Trial (Out of State):

  • Initial day: $6000
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1000
  • For each additional day: $5500
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1000
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $6000

Case Responses

Failure to resuscitate in NICU (Case #276)

  • Medical Probability: 10 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: Baby Aiden 1. The standard of care is to give antenatal steroids in cases of imminent preterm delivery if the baby is considered to be viable. The research data show that even 12 hours of exposure to...
  • Causation Probability: 10 / 10
  • Causation Summary: Aiden 1. Lack of antenatal steroids definitely did not give the possibility of some degree of maturation of the lungs 2. The hours of ineffective ventilation would have definitely worsened the lung...
  • Expert Summary: I am a tenured Professor of Pediatrics and Neonatology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Previously I worked at the University of California San Francisco and then at UCLA for 24 years. I am a...
  • Similar Summary: WE do not have such cases in our in-born babies as I have always worked in an academic center however they do occur often in our outborn cases

Failure in NICU (Case #279)

  • Medical Probability: 5 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: Based on the short history and summary provided I am unclear as to what the basis for proposed litigation is. What is the damage or injury to the baby? The notes do not describe what the baby has suf...
  • Causation Probability: 5 / 10
  • Causation Summary: Please read my questions above. If the answers to those questions reveal more information that is pertinent then there may be evidence of mismanagement
  • Expert Summary: I am a tenured Professor of Pediatrics and Neonatology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Previously I worked at the University of California San Francisco and then at UCLA for 24 years. I am a...
  • Similar Summary: These sorts of cases are very common and often I do see mismanagement as the initial care is often provided by a general pediatrician or an APN or a resident

An incapacitated minor (Case #318)

  • Medical Probability: 8 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: The main issue in this case is whether the baby was delivered promptly after the mother came in with a complaint of being kicked in the abdomen and she felt decreased movements of the fetus. This is...
  • Causation Probability: 7 / 10
  • Causation Summary: If delivery of the fetus was delayed.
  • Expert Summary: I have over 40 years of experience as a neonatologist and have served on many such cases as an expert. The lawyers who have used me as an expert have all been very satisfied with my expertise. Please...
  • Similar Summary: I am at a tertiary center with mainly in-born babies so such problems occur infrequently however we do referrals from outside about 5-10 times a year

Premie Blindness Due to Severe Glaucoma (Case #343)

  • Medical Probability: 10 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: Part of a normal newborn exam is to check for red reflexes in the eyes In congenital glaucoma it is absent
  • Causation Probability: 10 / 10
  • Causation Summary: Early diagnosis would have led to earlier treatment
  • Expert Summary: I am a neonatologist with >40 years of experience I have a lot of experience in providing expert testimony
  • Similar Summary: This ia a rare condition but all pediatricians a trained to check for red reflexes every time they examine a baby so the condition should have been picked up early

Newborn has respiratory symptoms prior to DC, no apparent intervention/testing, dies next morning, was 3 days old. (Case #428)

  • Medical Probability: 10 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: As an experienced neonatologist of >40 years now, one of the first things I teach all health care providers is to take any symptomology in the newborn in the first 24-48 hours, very seriously. Respira...
  • Causation Probability: 10 / 10
  • Causation Summary: I lecture on the topic of Respiratory distress in the immediate newborn and I emphasize that infection must be considered and ruled out always. This is because the consequences of missing infection in...
  • Expert Summary: I am a very experienced neonatologist with a stellar career as a fcaulty member in top institutions such as UCSF, UCLA and UIC. I was the Head of the division of neonatology at Harbor-UCLA and Head of...
  • Similar Summary: Such cases are encountered quite frequently. Cases of respiratory distress in the immediate newborn period with a work up of rule out sepsis is common (1-2 per 100 live births).

Premature child has necrotizing enterocolitis after rapid advancement in feeding schedule. (Case #462)

  • Medical Probability: 9 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: It is well established with many clinical studies that too rapid advancement of feeds in a premature baby, and not responding to any sign of intolerance to feeds, is very likely to lead to NEC. This ...
  • Causation Probability: 9 / 10
  • Causation Summary: NEC does not develop in babies who are not fed. So feeding is a prerequisite fot the development of NEC. If feeding is not stopped, or advancement of feeds slowed down appropriately, when a baby sh...
  • Expert Summary: I am neonatologist with close to 40 years of clinical experience. I have managed many cases of NEC. I have served as an expert on many similar cases. Please refer to my biosketch.
  • Similar Summary: In our academic center, we avert serious cases of NEC by responding to the frst sign of threatened NEC. We do get severe cases transferred to us from other centers.

5yo M Delayed Appendicitis Diagnosis, Rupture, Resection (Case #524)

  • Medical Probability: 6 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: If a child comes with complaints of abdominal pain for 2 days and the mother brings the child to an urgent care center, then the symptoms of pain must have been significant. The child had a high hear...
  • Causation Probability: 6 / 10
  • Causation Summary: The delay in the diagnosis led to rupture of the appendix, which is much more severe than a simple acute appendicitis. If the proper physical exam had been done, the child would have received antibi...
  • Expert Summary: I am a pediatrician who was in charge of a Children's hospital and had to be sure that all the pediatricians working there were followings established standards of care.
  • Similar Summary: Not often, as my clinical practice has been mainly in neonatology. However, as the Physician-in-Chief of our Children's Hospital, I had to review the care of every child in the hospital.