Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Pediatrics - Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Area of Expertise: Neonatology, Pediatrics
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1985
City of Practice: Santa Ana
State of Practice: California
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 20
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 80
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 5
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 20
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
- $500
- $3000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $500
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $600
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $300
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $1200
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1000
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1000
- For each additional day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $6000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1000
- For each additional day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $6000
Case Responses
An incapacitated minor (Case #318)
- Medical Probability: 1 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Etiology of neonatal encephalopathy was abdominal trauma 2 days prior to arrival to hospital. It is possible after full review of maternal records and FHR strips if there was a delay in delivery as f...
- Causation Probability: 1 / 10
- Causation Summary: Not sure of timing of neonatal blood transfusion and if a partial exchange was the source of treatment for severe anemia. It appears that seizures and altered tone occurred early in life and that the...
- Expert Summary: Expert in neonatal encephalopathy 40 years of experience as an academic clinical teacher
- Similar Summary: Infrequently. 10-20 cases over 40 years
Premie Blindness Due to Severe Glaucoma (Case #343)
- Medical Probability: 5 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: It is hard to interpret the eye photos but may be better appreciated by a pediatric ophthalmologist.. If the gestational age was less than 31 weeks then a screening eye exam was indicated prior to di...
- Causation Probability: 5 / 10
- Causation Summary: Answer depends on if there were cloudy corneas, enlarged corneas, or abnormal tearing while the newborn was present in the NICU.. Not sure of associated anomalies but primary congenital glaucoma can ...
- Expert Summary: 40 years of neonatal experience. Standard of care expert for proper discharge screening. if infant was born < 31 weeks gestation. A necessary expert would be a pediatric ophthalmologist
- Similar Summary: Very rare condition. I have seen only a few cases in my career.
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: It would have been prudent to have a chest radiograph done for those symptoms and desaturations. The symptoms were intermittent. The newborn was discharged from the hospital after how many hours of ...
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: Early onset infection more likely than not identified with chest radiograph and CBC at 12-24 hours of life. However, there were no risk factors for GBS infection. I would’ve anticipated that the...
- Expert Summary: Over 40 years' experience as a neonatologist. Expert in the field of malpractice for over 20 years
- Similar Summary: Cases of early onset sepsis is routine in neonatal clinical medicine
