Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Surgery (General Surgery) - Surgical Oncology
Area of Expertise: Melanoma, Sarcoma, Skin cancer, Surgery, Pancreas cancer, Liver Cancer, Colon cancer, Surgical Oncology
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2017
City of Practice: Columbus
State of Practice: Ohio
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 3
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 2
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 1
- 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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Academic / Leadership Information
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Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $300
- $300
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $200
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $400
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $200
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $200
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $200
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $1000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $200
- For each additional day: $1000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $200
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $300
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $1500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $200
- For each additional day: $1000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $200
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $300
Case Responses
Elective sigmoidectomy breakdown and death (Case #293)
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The first error in this case was an error in judgement. Clearly the patient should have had a diverting loop ileostomy at the same time of his initial operation. Diverting loop ileostomies have been s...
- Causation Probability: 8 / 10
- Causation Summary: Specifically, not creating a diverting loop ileostomy the first operation in the setting of such inflammation as manifest by a white blood cell count of 17.7 resulted in the patient requiring reoperat...
- Expert Summary: I'm a very detailed surgeon who takes very good care of complex patients. There are important nuances in caring for patients and their complications, especially elderly patients. There are many detail...
- Similar Summary: We very frequently manage patients with colon resections from outside hospitals who developed complications due to the complexity of care we provide as a tertiary referral center.
Colon perforation while inpatient (Case #316)
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Her hospital course is very protracted and I wonder if the general surgeon should have been consulted earlier. Typically if diverticulitis is managed medically the patients will recover quickly. It so...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: The patient’s diverticulitis progressed to perforation. It’s difficult to know whether her perforation was caused by her medical care because it does not state what kind of antibiotics she was on ...
- Expert Summary: I am a complex gastrointestinal surgeon, board-certified in general surgery and in complex surgical oncology. I have published any papers on failure to rescue and surgical quality. I am currently an a...
- Similar Summary: We often manage colitis as part of the complex care for a patient population. As a tertiary referral center, our patients are the sickest of the sick.
No Surgery for Abdominal Bleed (Case #321)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: There appears to be a significant delay in the reversal of anticoagulation for this patient (administration of protamine after the CT scan was several hours )In addition, the surgeon should not delay ...
- Causation Probability: 2 / 10
- Causation Summary: Intramuscular hematomas are known complications of anticoagulation. These incidences are difficult to predict. However, once diagnosed should be managed aggressively, especially in patients with low p...
- Expert Summary: Hemorrhagic shock is something taken care of, and managed by many general surgeons. I serve at a tertiary referral center that takes care of many patients with hemorrhagic shock from multiple etiologi...
- Similar Summary: As a complex surgical oncologist and board-certified general surgeon, we often take care of both medical and surgical bleeding. These events should be managed in a multidisciplinary fashion and an ex...
Surgical Resection- Mass in Colon (Case #348)
- Medical Probability: 5 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: I Don’t believe there was a medical error on the part of the surgeon. It is strange that the mass would be 15 cm and he would have divided the colon 8 cm proximal to that. You wonder if he transecte...
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: This is a very odd case, and that there are discrepancies in the surgical findings and the endoscopy report. It’s difficult to ascertain whether medical era contributed to this complication, because...
- Expert Summary: I’m a complex surgical oncologist who specializes in complex G.I. surgery and take care of patients with both benign and malignant processes of the colon.
- Similar Summary: Multiple times weekly. I stated above, I am a complex Gastro enterology, surgeon, and surgical oncologist, who cares for patients with both benign and malignant processes of the colon.
Patient Death following Cholecystectomy (Case #355)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Given the degree of cirrhosis, as well as the hypercoagulable state, I do not think it was in the best judgment to proceed with surgery. These livers can be very brittle and bleed significantly. In ad...
- Causation Probability: 8 / 10
- Causation Summary: Yes, surgical bleeding, and ultimately lead to this patient’s demise. In addition, the timing in the return to the operating room seems to be very delayed in this case.
- Expert Summary: I’m a complex general surgical oncologist who performs cholecystectomy‘s, as well as have extensive robotic training. I take care of patients frequently who are anemic, including Jehovah’s Witne...
- Similar Summary: Is a complex general surgical oncologist I perform both open and minimally invasive approaches weekly. This includes patients with cirrhosis.
Abdominal bleed/anastomotic leak (Case #357)
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The patient presented in stage 3/4 hemorrhagic shock and should’ve been taken to the operating room or to interventional radiology or to the G.I. endoscopy suite immediately. The fact that this pati...
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: Anastomotic bleeding is a known complication as is a Perry anastomotic abscess. The biggest issue was a failure to rescue this patient and in a significant delay, in an intervention, to save their lif...
- Expert Summary: I’m a board-certified surgeon and complex general surgical oncologist, who takes care of patients with complex abdominal surgeries. I’ve published nearly 100 publications and run an active practic...
- Similar Summary: I deal with these types of patients on a weekly to monthly basis as an active practicing surgeon in complex general surgical oncologist.
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The esophageal perforation likely happened during the second operation, the exploratory laparotomy/take back. It is not clear from this operative note when the wrap was taken down in order to perform ...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: Several observations mentioned in the operative note are inconsistent, and don’t paint a clear picture of the events necessary to perform, said procedures.
- Expert Summary: I’m an academic surgeon at a tertiary referral center who is fellowship trained in complex surgery,, robotics, and laparoscopy.
- Similar Summary: I take care of gastro intestinal and foregut pathology frequently as part of my duties, ass an assistant, professor of surgery at Ohio State University.
Failure to Diagnose and Inform of Tongue Cancer (Case #425)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: This scan should have been reviewed with the patient and a specific follow up plan discussed. While it is also on the onus of the patient to follow up with things, this should be documented clearly.
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: By delaying a diagnosis and complete evaluation the cancer likely progressed and was diagnosed at a later stage.
- Expert Summary: I am a board certified surgical oncologist who care for patients with head and neck cancers and lymphadenopathy.
- Similar Summary: I see patients with lymphadenopathy weekly in my practice.
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: My biggest concern with this case is that the patient was likely under resuscitated just prior to taking the patient to the operating room. Induction of anesthesia likely caused a further reduction in...
- Causation Probability: 8 / 10
- Causation Summary: Hypovolemic shock secondary to nasal gastric tube losses and dehydration, could have been made worse by induction of anesthesia.
- Expert Summary: I am an associate professor of surgery, complex general surgical oncologist and board certified general surgeon who cares for patients with bowel obstructions frequently.
- Similar Summary: Many times in a given year I manage patients with acute and/or acute on chronic bowel obstructions.
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: This patient refused standard of care therapy. Any time breast conserving surgery is performed. It should be accompanied by radiation. Otherwise the patient should’ve had a mastectomy and sentinel n...
- Causation Probability: 2 / 10
- Causation Summary: This patients poor outcome was a direct result of their decision-making, and not due to the care provided by the practitioner.
- Expert Summary: I’m a board certified surgical oncologist at a major academic institution
- Similar Summary: I am bored, certified and maintenance of certification is up-to-date. This is bread-and-butter general surgery.
