Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Surgical Critical Care
Area of Expertise: Trauma, Burn, Critical care, Wound healing, General Surgery
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1998
City of Practice: SEATTLE
State of Practice: Washington
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 2
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff:
- 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: -
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
- $950
- $950
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $950
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $3000
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: -
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): -
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1000
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: $6000
- 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
Death after tracheostomy (Case #320)
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: It seems that this patient had postoperative increase, secretion and potential pneumonia. The cuff pressure and endotracheal position based on the report appear to be appropriate. The initial blood ti...
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: If this was a tracheal innominate fistula, which an autopsy or a CT angiogram would have shown it, then, as long as the two boys placed appropriately, it is a complication that was not preventable. I...
- Expert Summary: I am a surgical, critical care and trauma surgeon that deals with these issues commonly
- Similar Summary: These are uncommon cases. However, I deal with tracheal complications a lot of times.
