Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Neurology - Neurocritical Care
- Neurology - Neurocritical Care
Area of Expertise: stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, encephalopathy and encephalitis, status epilepticus, anoxic brain injury, intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2012
City of Practice: Los Angeles
State of Practice: California
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant:
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 2
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff:
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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Academic / Leadership Information
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Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $450
- $900
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: -
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $900
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $450
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $900
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $300
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $3600
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $900
- For each additional day: $3600
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $900
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): -
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $3600
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3600
- For each additional day: $3600
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3600
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): -
Case Responses
Failure to adequately monitor for increasing intracranial pressure following intracranial bleed (Case #280)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: 1) Should this patient have been more closely monitored for increasing ICP with non-invasive Invos Cerebral Somatic Spectroscopy Monitoring device/machine, that was available at the time in the neuro ...
- Causation Probability: 9 / 10
- Causation Summary: The patient clearly worsened neurologically and her ultimate exam and neurological deficits seem to be much worse than the exams leading up to the events of deterioration on 6/12 in the morning, and t...
- Expert Summary: I am a board-certified neurologist and neurointensivist in active clinical practice, with experience working in both academic and non-academic centers. I have extensive experience in the evaluation o...
- Similar Summary: I see AVM-associated hemorrhages between 5-10 times per year in my practice.
Anti-NMDA encephalitis -- mismanaged? (Case #315)
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: This patient seems to likely have met criteria for probable anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis as proposed by Graus et al. in Lancet Neurology in 2016 and should have been treated accordingly. A lumba...
- Causation Probability: 8 / 10
- Causation Summary: The lack of continuous EEG monitoring at the initial hospital makes it highly likely that she continued to have nonconvulsive seizures there and that they went untreated, leading to further brain inju...
- Expert Summary: I am board-certified neurologist and neurointensivist with 10+ years of experience in both academic and community medical centers. I have extensive experience in acute diagnosis and management of NMD...
- Similar Summary: Although these are rare cases, I have managed similar cases of new-onset refractory status epilepticus 3-4 times per year for the past 10+ years.
59yo F to ER for L sided weakness, dx new CVA, not seen by neurology for 5 days. (Case #384)
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: This case revolves around evaluation of the patient presenting with an acute ischemic stroke. Based on the provided description, it appears that the patient arrived in time to warrant an acute stroke ...
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: Based on the description, it seems that most likely the patient had symptoms immediately upon awakening. If her last known well time was >4.5 hrs from presentation, as it would almost certainly be if...
- Expert Summary: I am a board-certified neurologist and neurointensivist with extensive experience in the evaluation and management of acute ischemic stroke patients, administration of thrombolytics, evaluation for en...
- Similar Summary: I manage patients with acute ischemic strokes nearly every single day in my clinical practice, so I see similar patients regularly. Although I have not previously encountered a 5-day delay in neurol...
Bilateral hearing loss after significant hypoxic event/intubation (Case #455)
- Medical Probability: 5 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: It is hard to know as there are limited details provided here for the hours prior to him being found with hypoxia. I would need to see more of the chart to know what happened here.
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: I have never seen or heard of hearing loss in isolation from anoxic brain injury, but would be curious to know if there were any other neurological deficits noted after the anoxic event. Hearing loss...
- Expert Summary: As a board-certified neurointensivist, I regularly evaluate patients with anoxic brain injury and other acute neurological problems.
- Similar Summary: While I manage cases of anoxic brain injury, I have not previously seen hearing loss in this setting, which is why I think that they are not likely to be related.
