Expert Information

Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes

Degree: MD

Specialty / Subspecialty:

  • Pediatrics  -  Critical Care Medicine
  • Pediatrics  -  Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Area of Expertise: Pediatric Critical Care, Pediatric Trauma, Pediatric Hospice & Palliative Care, Pediatric Respiratory Failure, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Pediatric Sepsis

Year of Medical Training Completion: 2012

City of Practice: Amarillo

State of Practice: Texas

Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes

Type of Practice: Academic

  • Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 1
  • Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 40
  • Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
  • 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
  • $2000

Independent Medical Examination:

Independent Medical Examination with written report

  • Per Hour: $150

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): -
  • Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): -

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

Death of 3 y/o following MVA complications (Case #330)

  • Medical Probability: 6 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: I believe there are multiple potential areas of care that require in depth examination in the medical record. There may have been a missed injury/delay in diagnosis of that injury. There is a tremendo...
  • Causation Probability: 6 / 10
  • Causation Summary: There may have been a missed injury/delay in diagnosis of that injury. There may have been intraoperative misadventures, or ones in the ICU surrounding any of the airway managements, or communication...
  • Expert Summary: I have over 20 years (post-fellowship training) of experience caring for children just like this child in Pediatric Trauma Centers, both Level I and Level II, in addition to 3 years of PICU fellowship...
  • Similar Summary: Frequently during the warmer months Spring through Fall, when children are outside playing and in the winter months around the Holidays when families are traveling via motor vehicles over long distanc...

A case of kernicterus and resultant neuro injury (Case #450)

  • Medical Probability: 9 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: I refer to the Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in the Newborn Infant 35 or More Weeks of Gestation1 (attached), as that was the standard of care in place at the time. Since that time, Guidelines were...
  • Causation Probability: 9 / 10
  • Causation Summary: 1. Was it a departure to take the wait and see position when the bili levels began to decrease while the child was receiving phototherapy? On 8/13 (Monday) when level was 25 at pediatrician’s office...
  • Expert Summary: Pediatric Intensivist since 2004. I have multiple board certifications. I was PICU Medical Director and wrote policies and clinical practice guidelines. I have chaired Quality and Safety committee...
  • Similar Summary: These are exceedingly uncommon due to advances in technology and monitoring protocols and practice guidelines and advances in resident education. That being said, it has been more than a decade since ...