Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Orthopaedic Surgery - Surgery of the Hand
Area of Expertise: Hand Surgery, Peripheral Nerve Surgery, Elbow Surgery, Shoulder Surgery, Shoulder Reconstruction, Orthopaedic Surgery
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2014
City of Practice: WASHINGTON
State of Practice: Washington DC
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 50
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 1
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 15
- 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
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
- $1500
- $1500
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $1350
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $2000
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $1200
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $2000
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $2000
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $9999
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $9999
- For each additional day: $9999
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $9999
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $10
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $9999
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $9999
- For each additional day: $9999
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $9999
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $9999
Case Responses
Possible lunate injury from chondroplasty - caused CRPS? (Case #298)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: There is a large defect in the lunate and in the lunate facet of the radius. Cannot say how it got there, but it would not be standard for an arthroscopy to produce this defect. Need to see the CT ...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: Again, cannot determine without seeing the radiographs/CT prior to the wrist arthroscopy. I cannot think of a situation where that degree of bony debridement would be appropriate. Would also need to r...
- Expert Summary: I am a fellowship trained hand surgeon with extensive experience treating TFCC tears and performing wrist arthroscopy. Was the chair of the ASSH Evidence Based Practice committee for several years.
- Similar Summary: Radius fractures? Several per week. TFCC tears, weekly. I perform wrist arthroscopies 1-2x/month on average.
Orthopedic surgeon (upper extremity specialist) failure to perform proper physical assessment or MRI (Case #300)
- Medical Probability: 2 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: MRI is NOT indicated as a first or second line study for shoulder pain. XR, physical exam and PT are standard and appropriate responses. Only were PT to fail would an MRI be indicated. The fact that t...
- Causation Probability: 1 / 10
- Causation Summary: see above. There is no medical error, so there is no injury related to this supposed claim, unless there are significant details in the history that have not been provided.
- Expert Summary: I treat these injuries on a daily basis, have assisted in creating and vetting all of the AAOS Clinical Practice Guidelines and Appropriate Use Criteria, for rotator cuff injuries among other topics.
- Similar Summary: Frequently. I perform distal biceps repairs and shoulder arthroscopy and rotator repairs routinely and treat patients with similar presentations on a daily basis.
Partial left hand amputation post IV extravasation (Case #324)
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: A terrible outcome, but hematoma at the site of an IV with someone with history of thrombotic disease now on anticoagulation is not uncommon, nor is it an error. You needed an IV. The bleed was probab...
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: Again, this patient had a longstanding history of difficult IV sticks with multiple failed IV's. She's a vasculopath. Another IV getting blown is an eventuality more than a possibility.
- Expert Summary: I am a hand surgeon who sees compartment syndrome often.
- Similar Summary: Leading to amputation? Rarely. Compartment syndrome and rule-out compartment syndrome - every few months.
- Medical Probability: 2 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: In severe contracture, full extension of the PIP joints is unlikely to be achieved, and certainly is not a given. When the patient has chronically stretched out extensors from contracture, there will ...
- Causation Probability: 2 / 10
- Causation Summary: There is no injury and no violation of standard of care that you have identified.
- Expert Summary: I am an experienced medical expert, a national expert in evidence based medicine, Section Leader for Clinical Practice Guideljne development at AAOS, on the Editorial Panel for the AMA Guides to the E...
- Similar Summary: I see 10-15 Dupuys patients a week and operate on 30-40 a year in addition to extensive use of needle aponeurotomy and Xiaflex.
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Instability/dislocation of a silicone MP arthroplasty is not uncommon. If it were ignored or improperly treated, that would potentially be below the SOC. Here, it seems like the surgeon managed it app...
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: Instability/dislocation of a silicone MP arthroplasty is not uncommon. If it were ignored or improperly treated, that would potentially be below the SOC. Here, it seems like the surgeon managed it app...
- Expert Summary: 15 years of experience as a hand surgeon. Performed dozens of silicone arthroplasties. Experienced arthroplasty surgeon. Expert in evidence-based hand and upper extremity surgery, former chair of the ...
- Similar Summary: Weekly. I see carpal and cubital tunnel multiple times a day, same with MP joint arthritis.
