Expert Information

Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes

Degree:

Specialty / Subspecialty:

  • Ophthalmology

Area of Expertise: Vitreoretinal Surgery, Uveitis, Anterior Segment Surgery, Cataract Surgery, Ocular Trauma

Year of Medical Training Completion: 2001

City of Practice: Nashville

State of Practice: Tennessee

Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes

Type of Practice: Non-Academic

  • Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 4
  • Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 9
  • Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 1
  • 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: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Year of Completion: -

Residency: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Year of Completion: -

Fellowship: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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

  • $900
  • $3600

Independent Medical Examination:

Independent Medical Examination with written report

  • Per Hour: $900

Deposition in office:

Deposition: Discovery/Evidence

  • First two hours: $3600
  • For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $900
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $3600
  • Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1800

Trial (InState):

  • Initial day: $7200
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3600
  • For each additional day: $7200
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3600
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $7200

Trial (Out of State):

  • Initial day: $7200
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3600
  • For each additional day: $7200
  • Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3600
  • Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $7200

Case Responses

Retinal detachment following cataract surgery. (Case #314)

  • Medical Probability: 6 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: The real question is whether there was a breach in the standard of care. It is unclear from the information given if due diligence in the examination was performed, and no details of the intraoperati...
  • Causation Probability: 6 / 10
  • Causation Summary: A retinal detachment following a complicated cataract surgery is most likely caused by the cataract surgery It is a known consequence of vitreous loss.
  • Expert Summary: I have performed thousands of cataract and retinal surgeries. I am fellowship trained in both anterior and posterior segment surgery.
  • Similar Summary: I commonly encounter cases of complicated cataract surgery with retinal implications.

Cataract surgery with no cataracts? (Case #317)

  • Medical Probability: 4 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: Everyone develops cataracts. Traditionally, we have made the decision to remove cataracts as a function of the contribution of the cataract to diminishing or scattering light and the ultimate effects ...
  • Causation Probability: 7 / 10
  • Causation Summary: If the patient is having unexpected complications there is a reasonable chance a deviation in the standard of care occurred after the decision to perform cataract surgery such as in the intraocular le...
  • Expert Summary: I have done thousands of cataract surgeries and have been retained as an expert witness over 50 times in the last four years.
  • Similar Summary: I remove cataracts about 5 times a month.

Loss of vision post corneal transplant (from donor) and Endophthalmitis, bacterial infection. (Case #382)

  • Medical Probability: 6 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: It all comes down to the dropping of the corneal tissue. Rinsing with an antibiotic solution would not suffice even if it appears to have landed endothelium up, and it is not clear what the surgeon m...
  • Causation Probability: 6 / 10
  • Causation Summary: See above. The patient’s problem was from an infection and the medical error may have cuased the infection.
  • Expert Summary: I have done about 2,500 corneal transplants during and after my corneal fellowship and I am now a full-time vitreoretinal surgeon.
  • Similar Summary: I see about one to two endophthalmitis cases per month.

Delayed Diagnosis of Retinal Detachment/Tear (Case #427)

  • Medical Probability: 5 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: The patient may not have had a tear on examination with the first PVD. There is not a 100% correlation between symptoms of PVD and a tear. That said, it sounds as if there might have been reason to ...
  • Causation Probability: 7 / 10
  • Causation Summary: Delayed diagnoses of RD often counterfactually create damages.
  • Expert Summary: I have been retained in over 100 cases in the last six years and I almost exclusively actively practice vitro-retinal surgery.
  • Similar Summary: I see situations similar to this weekly.