Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Surgery (General Surgery)
Area of Expertise: General Surgery, Bariatric Surgery
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1996
City of Practice: WARMINSTER, Pa and Quincy Illinois
State of Practice: Illinois
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 35
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 8
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 10
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 4
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
- $600
- $1500
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $1
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): $3500
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $1500
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $7500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $7500
- For each additional day: $7500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $7500
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $7500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $7500
- For each additional day: $7500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $7500
Case Responses
- Medical Probability: 3 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Post operative bleeding is a known complication after any bariatric surgery. Post operative pain is common in most patients post operatively. The location in this case is unusual as it was not in the...
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: The inadvertent placement of the central line into the left carotid artery did result in left water shed infarction/ ischemic stroke. This is a known complication that occurs when the carotid artery i...
- Expert Summary: I am a general and bariatric surgeon. as well as a director of an MBSAQIP center. 85% of my practice is bariatric surgery. I have done over 4,500 bariatric procedures. I have been doing all of my pro...
- Similar Summary: I have done over 850 gastric bypass procedures. I have been doing them robotically since 2020.
Bedside tracheostomy has multiple complications including esophageal perforation and repair procedures. (Case #372)
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: As described, the percutaneous tracheostomy attempt was difficult requiring multiple passes with the needle guide and more than the usual force. The procedure should have been abandoned before multip...
- Causation Probability: 9 / 10
- Causation Summary: In order to create an esophageal injury, the force used was enough to perforate the trachea posteriorly and injure the esophagus. This much force and degree of difficulty should give a surgeon pause a...
- Expert Summary: I am a general surgeon. In the past I have performed tracheostomy percutaneously and open.
- Similar Summary: Over the last 15 years my number of tracheostomy cases are few as I stopped doing trauma.
