Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Orthopaedic Surgery
Area of Expertise: Spine Surgery
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2006
City of Practice: Livonia
State of Practice: Michigan
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 300
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 10
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 2
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 3
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
- $1000
- $3000
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: -
- 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
Severed ureter during anterior diskectomy and interbody fusion (Case #295)
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Ureteral transaction, especially in a revision setting, is a known complication. It can be difficult to diagnose initially, however, a delay in diagnosis typically does not have long-term sequela. The...
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: This is a known complication, and not a medical error.
- Expert Summary: I am a board-certified, fellowship trained orthopedic spine surgeon in my 19th year of active practice. I have extensive clinical, forensic, and medical expert testimony experience. I have previous...
- Similar Summary: It is now my preference to do all my lumbar surgeries from a poster approach in order to avoid complications, such as this, and others, such as abdominal and vascular injuries. However, it is within t...
