Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Family Medicine
Area of Expertise: primary care, hospital medicine, wilderness medicine, emergency medicine, surgical evaluation, primary care, hospital medicine, wilderness medicine
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1996
City of Practice: Weston
State of Practice: West Virginia
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 4
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 12
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 2
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 5
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
- $400
- $1500
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $600
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $1600
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $800
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $1500
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $500
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $1800
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
- For each additional day: $1800
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $1500
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $2500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
- For each additional day: $2500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $500
Case Responses
Delay in diagnosis/treatment of acute appendicitis (Case #299)
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Yes, should have immediately referred for in office H&P or sent to ER. Abbreviated Alvarado Score could have been done to predict probability of appendicitis. Surgical consultation and immediate dia...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: We never can state definitely yes or definitely no in medicine, but all the evidence repeated demonstrates the earlier we diagnose and treat appendicitis the more likely we are to have positive outcom...
- Expert Summary: Have 27 years experience, in multiple settings from outpatient to inpatient large and small. I have testified on behalf of defense and plaintiff alike and have represented a similar case of missed ap...
- Similar Summary: Abdominal pain is a daily thing and appendicitis always, always needs to be considered for just this reason.
