Expert Information

Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes

Degree: M.D.

Specialty / Subspecialty:

  • Dermatology  -  Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery
  • Dermatology  -  Pediatric Dermatology

Area of Expertise: Dermatology, Skin Cancer

Year of Medical Training Completion: 2006

City of Practice: HICKSVILLE

State of Practice: New York

Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes

Type of Practice: Non-Academic

  • Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 6
  • Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 6
  • 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: -

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Residency: -

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Academic / Leadership Information

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Distinguishing Achievements

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Fee Schedule

Medical Record Review:

Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation

  • $650
  • $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: -
  • 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

Delay in surgery for squamous cell carcinoma? (Case #304)

  • Medical Probability: 6 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: This patient had a large KA, which is a variant of an SCC. KA's have a complex history in the literature. Historically, many physicians would observe these as they do have the potential to spontaneo...
  • Causation Probability: 6 / 10
  • Causation Summary: A delay in definitive treatment could have resulted in the deeper and peri-neural involvement of this aggressive KA. However, it should be noted that this cancer was large and aggressive at the time ...
  • Expert Summary: I have extensive experience with KA, SCC, etc, and am a board certified Mohs surgeon
  • Similar Summary: Often... though we would not have observed the cancer. We would have excised it with Mohs, or discharged the patient from our practice.

Skin lesion ruled out cancer w/ Dermtech. 5 months later, invasive stage 2 melanoma. (Case #466)

  • Medical Probability: 7 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: This case is really questioning two different components of the care. The first question is “can dermtech be used as a monitoring tool in lieu of a biopsy.” The answer to this question is that i...
  • Causation Probability: 5 / 10
  • Causation Summary: The question to ask here is how much might a melanoma have progressed between the initial visit in June and the follow up approximately five months later. My suspicion is that the results would have b...
  • Expert Summary: I am a dual board certified Dermatologist and Mohs surgeon with extensive experience in dermatological oncology, treatment, and management
  • Similar Summary: We diagnose and treat melanomas frequently in our practice. We also have extensive experience using Dermtech

Vascular insufficiency resulting in need for amputation (Case #553)

  • Medical Probability: 3 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: Based on my review of the available medical records, pathology, and clinical photographs, I do not find a deviation from the standard of care by dermatology in the management of this 71-year-old male ...
  • Causation Probability: 3 / 10
  • Causation Summary: To a reasonable degree of medical probability, the dermatology care at issue was not the cause of this patient’s eventual limb loss. The patient had significant preexisting vascular disease, includi...
  • Expert Summary: I am a board-certified dermatologist with substantial experience in the diagnosis and management of complex cutaneous ulcers, inflammatory dermatoses, skin cancer, and lower extremity wounds. My pract...
  • Similar Summary: In my clinical practice, I encounter pyoderma gangrenosum with relative frequency as part of the spectrum of inflammatory ulcerative skin disease seen by dermatologists. By contrast, progression to li...