Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Surgery (General Surgery)
Area of Expertise: Bariatric Surgery, Gastroesophageal Surgery, Anti Reflux Surgery, Hernia Surgery, Medical Education, Gastric Cancer
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2012
City of Practice: Reno
State of Practice: Nevada
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Non-Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 1
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 1
- 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
- $750
- $2000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $1000
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): $1000
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1000
- For each additional day: $2000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $5000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $5000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1000
- For each additional day: $2000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $500
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $5000
Case Responses
- Medical Probability: 7 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: There likely was an injury to the gastric vessel in question during dissection of the stomach or manipulation of tissue for positioning of organs for anastomosis, etc.
- Causation Probability: 7 / 10
- Causation Summary: Yes, attention wasn't paid to the tissue being manipulated or dissected which resulted to the injury to this gastric vessel.
- Expert Summary: Experienced, fellowship-trained, regionally recognized robotic bariatric surgeon with more than 700 robotic cases performed (and more than 2000 bariatric cases overall). Vice-president of my state's c...
- Similar Summary: Rarely, usually less than 1-2 per year (as a transfer from another hospital for my assistance with management of these cases).
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: This is a purely technical error and a known, albeit rare, complication of establishing laparoscopic access by using a Visiport technique. The injuries sustained in this cases were to the intraperiton...
- Causation Probability: 10 / 10
- Causation Summary: The inability to recognize when the appropriate plane was reached and then surpassed (e.g. the medical error) led to the injury to the aforementioned structures when the port traversed the abdominal c...
- Expert Summary: Expert bariatric surgeon with numerous publications, presentations, lectures, and seminars in my past. Current vice-president of the California/Nevada chapter of the American Society of Metabolic Bari...
- Similar Summary: Never in my personal practice, but have encountered similar cases in the facilities where I have practiced.
