Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Surgery (General Surgery) - Surgical Oncology
Area of Expertise: SURGICAL ONCOLOGY, MELANOMA, SKIN CANCER, MERKEL CELL CARCINOMA, SENTINEL NODE BIOPSY, LYMPH NODE DISSECTION, CUTANEOUS MALIGNANCIES, PEDIATRIC MELANOMA
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1988
City of Practice: TAMPA
State of Practice: Florida
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 4
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 40
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 1
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 4
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
- $600
- $2500
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: -
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $2500
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $600
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): -
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $500
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $7500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $7500
- For each additional day: $4000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): -
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $7500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $7500
- For each additional day: $4000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): -
Case Responses
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Based on the available information, it is highly likely that the lesion on the forehead the patient presented with in January 2018 was in fact basal cell carcinoma, as subsequently diagnosed in Octobe...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: Based on the information provided, it is at least more likely than not that the extent of surgery was far more extensive and potentially deforming than would have been required 2+ years previously if ...
- Expert Summary: I am an expert surgical oncologist with extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of cutaneous malignancies, and as director of a large multidisciplinary clinic exclusively for skin cancer p...
- Similar Summary: I frequently see skin cancer cases where there has been a substantive delay in diagnosis, most often on the part of the patient themselves. This is an unusually long period of time to treat a skin les...
