Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Surgery (General Surgery) - Surgical Critical Care
Area of Expertise: Trauma, Transfusion, Critical Care, Emergency Surgery, Respiratory Failure
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2012
City of Practice: HACKENSACK
State of Practice: New Jersey
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant:
- 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, 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
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Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $500
- $1000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: -
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $2000
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $1000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $2000
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $2000
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
- For each additional day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $2000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
- For each additional day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $2000
Case Responses
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy with CBD and R Hepatic Artery injury (Case #325)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: This patient had a bile duct injury in a case in which the bile ducts were abberant. There should have been a high index of suspicion and this could have been prevented by a cholangiogram or by openi...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: This patient should have been considered for a cholangiogram.
- Expert Summary: I have been practicing for over 10 years in acute and critical care surgery and have seen this injury a number of times.
- Similar Summary: I encounter complicated gallbladder cases weekly.
Stab wound, necrotizing fasciitis, death (Case #327)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: It's not clear what the original treatment of the deltoid wound was. I would need to see the imaging, if any, that was done for the deltoid injury, and the procedure note for the washout and closure....
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: It seems like the deltoid washout was not treated appropriately. Also, its unclear if trauma surgery was called, which should have been done for a wound in this region. The error in this case was cl...
- Expert Summary: I am a trauma surgeon with 10-12 years experience, chief of trauma at a level 1 trauma center. I have treated hundreds, possibly thousands of patients with penetrating trauma over my career.
- Similar Summary: I see cases of penetrating trauma at least weekly. I close emergency wounds daily.
Death from shock and multi-organ failure after motorcycle accident (Case #341)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: We often order IV contrast in patients who have iodine allergy, and it can be managed if they have anaphylaxis, with steroids and benadryl, IV fluid administration and additional resuscitation. If th...
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: It seems tat the patients workup and decision making tree was appropriate. This patient had blunt trauma and received appropriate workup and treatment. No error resulted in an injury, but there was ...
- Expert Summary: I am a trauma surgeon with 12 years experience and am the chief of trauma and emergency surgery at a large urban, academic level 1 trauma center. I sit on the blood bank committee. We treat over 4,0...
- Similar Summary: I am a trauma surgeon managing a level 1 trauma center - we have such cases daily.
bleeding from external iliac artery following endovascular procedure (Case #347)
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The bleeding itself post-access is a known complication of the procedure. However, if the patient had a drop in mental status at midnight, there should have been more rapid recognition of the bleedin...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: Again, I believe the medical error here is not to have high enough suspicion of injury and complication and the subsequent care. There is a technical error with the access site bleeding but it's diff...
- Expert Summary: I am an ICU intensivist who manages the complications of vascular procedures. I'm a general and trauma surgeon who also does open vascular surgery. I have managed abdominal compartment syndrome, he...
- Similar Summary: I take care of vascular patients daily to weekly, and manage the complications of endovascular procedures about once a month. I manage compartment syndrome patients several times a month and patients...
54 y.o. man dies of hemorrhagic shock after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (Case #354)
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The medical error I see here is in the first hospitalization. If a patient had a massive GI bleed, they had an indication for an EGD - this should not have been to follow up as an outpatient. The pa...
- Causation Probability: 4 / 10
- Causation Summary: I don't think a medical error caused the problems. The patient's marginal ulcer is a known complication of the gastric bypass procedure. It's unknown if the patient was prescribed ulcer medication, ...
- Expert Summary: I am a general surgeon and surgical intensivist. I manage GI bleeding frequently in both contexts and work in a bariatric center where we see these complications
- Similar Summary: Once ever 3-4 months, we will see a severe GI bleed in a bariatric patient. We see GI bleeding weekly, and bariatric patients weekly but not this particular complication.
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: This patient had a complex chest wall injury. He likely should have initially been upgraded to a trauma center and bypassed this hospital by EMS. This however, depends on the location, distance from...
- Causation Probability: 9 / 10
- Causation Summary: This patient required tertiary level care provided at a trauma center. The continuation of care at a less sophisticated medical center without specific expertise in multiple blunt trauma is an error ...
- Expert Summary: I am a level 1 trauma center director with 13 years of postresidency experience and see over 4,000 trauma patients annually, including transfers. I am an ATLS course director and instructor, and am i...
- Similar Summary: I see patients like this daily.
Bedside tracheostomy has multiple complications including esophageal perforation and repair procedures. (Case #372)
- Medical Probability: 8 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Although esophageal perforation is a known complication of tracheostomy, it is a rare complication. Bedside percutaneous tracheostomy is standard practice, however, at the time that the surgeon walke...
- Causation Probability: 8 / 10
- Causation Summary: The percutaneous tracheostomy procedure should not be technically difficult, and when there are technical difficulties, the patient should go for open exploration. The error here is in forcing the tu...
- Expert Summary: I am a trauma surgeon with more than 10 years experience. i have performed hundreds of tracheostomy tube procedures, both percutanous and open, and have had challenging procedures that resulted in co...
- Similar Summary: We have tracheostomy tubes weekly. Complications of tracheostomies are rare and I have only seen 2 esophageal perforations from perc trach in my career.
