Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Internal Medicine - Geriatric Medicine
Area of Expertise: Geriatric Medicine, Disorders of cognition, Prognosis and life expectancy, Functional assessment and disability, Fall-related injuries
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1994
City of Practice: NEW HAVEN
State of Practice: Connecticut
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 30
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 15
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 00
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 1
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
- $610
- $4000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $1000
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $950
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $950
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $2000
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $2000
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $7000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3500
- For each additional day: $7000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $3500
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $7000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3500
- For each additional day: $7000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $3500
Case Responses
Death After Bowel Obstruction (Case #345)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: After 2 episodes of projectile vomiting, the patient, who could not provide a good history because of likely dementia, should have been evaluated by a physician in the nursing home or should have been...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: If the bowel obstruction was diagnosed after 2nd episode of projectile vomiting, he could have been treated medically, probably in a hospital setting, forestalling his death. He may not have been a s...
- Expert Summary: I am an internationally recognized expert in geriatric medicine and have worked effectively with both defense and plaintiff attorneys.
- Similar Summary: My clinical practice is currently hospital-based, serving as the attending physician to about 10-14 acutely ill persons aged 65 years or older, most of whom have multiple chronic conditions and many ...
