Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: M.D.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Pediatrics - Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Area of Expertise: Infectious Diseases, Hospital acquired infections, Pediatric and adolescent infections, Newborn and congenital infections, Epidemiology
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1995
City of Practice: JACKSONVILLE
State of Practice: Florida
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 10
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 6
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 2
- 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: -
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Residency: -
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Fellowship: -
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Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: -
Current Academic Affiliation: -
Distinguishing Achievements
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Number of Publications on PubMed: -
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Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $500
- $3000
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: -
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
Failure to send urine sample to lab; infant positive for CMV. (Case #365)
- Medical Probability: 4 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: If there was congenital CMV infection treatment with Valganciclovir would not have made a difference.
- Causation Probability: 1 / 10
- Causation Summary: Once congenital CMV infection occurs chances of improvement are minimal. Also there are no recommendations and no data to support Valganciclovir treatment in this situation.
- Expert Summary: I have 33 years of experience as an infectious diseases specialist and 30 year experience as Hospital Epidemiologist and Chair of Infection Prevention and Control Committee. I have been a clinical inv...
- Similar Summary: All the time. We are regularly consulted for newborns who test positive for CMV with or without clinical manifestations
