Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Emergency Medicine
Area of Expertise: Emergency Medicine, Administration
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2002
City of Practice: Valley Stream
State of Practice: New York
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 3
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff:
- 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
Medical School: SUNY Downstate Medical School
Year of Completion: 1997
Residency: NYU School of Medicine
Year of Completion: 2001
Fellowship: -
Year of Completion: -
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: Associate Professor
Current Academic Affiliation: Zucker Hofstra School of Medicine
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
- $500
- $2000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: -
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: -
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: -
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): -
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): -
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $4000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
- For each additional day: $1000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $4000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $4000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
- For each additional day: $2000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $4000
Case Responses
15-year-old with adverse drug reaction (Case #308)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Repeat visits despite treatment and lack of response from treatment along with fever. New medication and symptoms should have raised the suspicion of DRESS syndrome. Although rare, the multiple vis...
- Causation Probability: 5 / 10
- Causation Summary: Error of omission. Failure to recognize a rare syndrome.
- Expert Summary: I am board certified in Emergency Medicine.
- Similar Summary: The presentation is common. The diagnosis is rare.
ED visit with abdominal pain, elevated WBC, discharged yet returns later same day with perforated appendix (Case #431)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Based on the initial presentation and evaluation, the patient had an appropriate workup but did not have her appendix visualized on CT. Perhaps there was an opportunity to move to a different modality...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: The radiology read needs to be reviewed.
- Expert Summary: I have over 25 years of experience in Emergency Medicine and have had oversight over the quality programs at 3 different departments over the years.
- Similar Summary: I review hospital cases almost daily. Our department sees over 120 patients per day, and I also review hospital cases as the president of our medical leadership and medical board.
13yo left testicular torsion resulting in orchiectomy (Case #589)
- Medical Probability: 5 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: I would like to believe there was a testicular exam performed in this patient. Considering a normal exam was documented, it will be difficult to prove. Despite a normal exam, there may have been a de...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: The index of suspicion needs to be high in adolescent men. This warrants a careful assessment t with the awareness this is a frequent under diagnosis.
- Expert Summary: I have taken care of patients for over 25 years. I am board certified and an ABEM examiner
- Similar Summary: We see cases where the differential includes torsion.
