Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Surgery (General Surgery)
Area of Expertise: General surgery, Bariatric surgery, Acute care surgery, Robotic surgery, Minimally invasive surgery, Foregut surgery, Endoscopy
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2012
City of Practice: PORTLAND
State of Practice: Oregon
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 1
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 2
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff:
Available to Review Cases: Yes, only for the defendant
Available to Be Deposed: Yes, only for the defendant
Available to Testify In Trial: Yes, only for the defendant
Training and Additional Credentials
Medical School: -
Year of Completion: -
Residency: -
Year of Completion: -
Fellowship: -
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Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: -
Current Academic Affiliation: -
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: -
Number of Publications on PubMed: -
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Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $500
- $2500
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: -
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $1000
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: -
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $2000
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1500
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
54 y.o. man dies of hemorrhagic shock after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (Case #354)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Because on 4/11/23 when the pt came in to the ED, He was hypotensive and tachycardic in the setting of a gastric bypass 4 months earlier. There is a definite inherent concern for a marginal ulcer here...
- Causation Probability: 5 / 10
- Causation Summary: The lack of earlier further evaluation in the OR or endoscopy suite did not cause the ulcer or bleeding from the ulcer. However, not investigating at an earlier time led to a delay in eventual needed ...
- Expert Summary: A surgeon who deals with post bypass or sleeve bleeds, one who is comfortable with performing EGD and one who knows the right time to initiate whatever intervention is necessary.
- Similar Summary: Occasionally, as bleeding marginal ulcers, especially ones that lead to such Hemo dynamic compromise are rare.
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: I believe there is an injury that was initiated, if not overly caused by the surgeon during the initial operation. There is no reason a bleeding vessel on the lesser curvature should cause such a mass...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: The initial injury to the yet unnamed artery leading to the profound hypotension and cardiovascular shock, necessitated urgent, central line placement in a depleted vasculature.
- Expert Summary: Because I perform robotic gastric bypasses every week, and have been doing it in roughly the same way for the last 11 years.
- Similar Summary: I have never encountered a severe arterial injury in a gastric bypass case that I have ever done
