Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Orthopaedic Surgery - Surgery of the Hand
Area of Expertise: Hand Surgery, Worker's Compensation, Dupuytrens disease, CRPS, Maritime
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2013
City of Practice: Houma
State of Practice: Louisiana
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 100
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 100
- 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
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
- $5000
- $5000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $5000
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: -
- 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
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Failure to diagnose. Incomplete workup of wrist complaints noted. If patient concerns continued, appropriate advanced imaging would have helped to diagnose the proper reason, rather than writing pain ...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: Patient was not properly diagnosed, and therefore, inappropriately managed. Timely and appropriate management would have helped to minimize the injury and sequelae.
- Expert Summary: Board certified orthopedic hand surgeon with extensive worker's compensation experience. Fair and honest opinions given. Patient base throughout the Southeast US.
- Similar Summary: I encounter cases similar to this one on a weekly basis, if not more often.
Ultrasound guided carpal tunnel surgery (Case #492)
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Unqualified physician doing procedure out of his scope of practice. Ultrasound guided CTR is not good standard and not widely accepted as safe. Transected median nerve is a complication, higher likel...
- Causation Probability: 10 / 10
- Causation Summary: Medical error and failure to recognize and treat complication caused permanent damage to median nerve which is unable to be fully recovered at this point. Permanent and severe nerve damage that is irr...
- Expert Summary: Board certified orthopedic hand surgeon who has performed endoscopic carpal tunnel and median nerve surgeries for more than 15 years. Highly experienced with tertiary referrals for median nerve repair...
- Similar Summary: I treat median nerve cases like this monthly.
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Recurrent dislocation is not normal after an operative repair of volar plate and/or capsular structures.
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: First attempt at relocation should have been operative instead of "closed reduction" as closed would be unexpected to fix the issues of dislocation. Axonal injury to nerves is not a normal complicatio...
- Expert Summary: Orthopedic hand surgeon, 14 years of hand surgery experience, multiple mcp arthroplasties per year in my practice.
- Similar Summary: 4-6 similar cases per year normally
