Expert Information

Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes

Degree: M.D

Specialty / Subspecialty:

  • Emergency Medicine

Area of Expertise: Emergency medicine

Year of Medical Training Completion: 2014

City of Practice: Loma linda

State of Practice: California

Previous Experience As Expert Witness: No

Type of Practice: Academic

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: -

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Fellowship: -

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Academic / Leadership Information

Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: -

Current Academic Affiliation: -

Distinguishing Achievements

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Number of Publications on PubMed: -

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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: $500

Deposition in office:

Deposition: Discovery/Evidence

  • First two hours: $2000
  • 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: -
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
  • For each additional day: -
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): -
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): -

Trial (Out of State):

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

Case Responses

Delayed diagnosis of appendicitis? (Case #294)

  • Medical Probability: 5 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: Patient presented with symptoms of likely early appendicitis. His CT did not show definitely appendicitis. His labs don't support appendicitis either. If the patient is able to eat and drink then he n...
  • Causation Probability: 5 / 10
  • Causation Summary: I dont think there was an error. I think that with good return precautions (I would like to see them) the patient would have come back sooner. Morphine can mask pain but not for 4 days. I believe the ...
  • Expert Summary: I work in the ER and see patients with similar presentations all the time.
  • Similar Summary: I encounter several patients presenting to the ER with abdominal pain. Based on history, labs and possibly imaging the decision is made if the patient is stable to go home. Usually a patient who is no...

Foot infection after foreign body leads to gangrene, toe amputations (Case #311)

  • Medical Probability: 5 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: This is a complicated case. First ED visit: foreign body found, it was removed. Some infection noted. Antibiotics prescribed and follow up instructions given. Consider checking a blood sugar in some...
  • Causation Probability: 5 / 10
  • Causation Summary: The time frame between the second and third visits is 11 days. There is a possibility that the patient may have waited to long by the time a large blister formed. I think unless the blister formed ove...
  • Expert Summary: Emergency physician practicing at a busy academic center seeing similar patient presentations regularly.
  • Similar Summary: Patients presenting with foreign bodies: several times a month Patients with infections: every shift Patients with hypertension and diabetes: every shift.