Expert Information

Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes

Degree: M.D.

Specialty / Subspecialty:

  • Pediatrics  -  Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Area of Expertise: Pediatrics, Pediatric infectious diseases, HIV, CMV, MRSA, Vaccines, Antibiotics, Lyme disease

Year of Medical Training Completion: 2009

City of Practice: Albany

State of Practice: New York

Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes

Type of Practice: Academic

  • Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 1
  • Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 3
  • Testified in a Trial For the Defendent:
  • 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

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Residency: -

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Fee Schedule

Medical Record Review:

Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation

  • $400
  • $2000

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: 8 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: An infant with IUGR and a failed hearing screen should, as a matter of standard of care, be evaluated for congenital CMV (cCMV). You have up until a month of age to start treatment so while there was ...
  • Causation Probability: 7 / 10
  • Causation Summary: As above, you have a month after birth to determine the degree to which cCMV is symptomatic, and initiate treatment. The only data supporting Ganciclovir or Valganciclovir use is in infants with sympt...
  • Expert Summary: I have cared for numerous infants with cCMV and am currently one of the site PI's for a NY state long-term CMV outcome study. I have also done numerous medicolegal reviews (>10 cases) with some deposi...
  • Similar Summary: We see a handful of congenital CMV patients each year. In my 11.5 years of practice as an attending I have seen more than I can count.

Failure to diagnose and treat CMV infection in a newborn (Case #416)

  • Medical Probability: 8 / 10
  • Medical Error Summary: An infant with petechiae and a platelet count of 11,000 (if real and not spurious) should prompt a workup for TORCH infection including CMV. If urine CMV had been done and had been positive, a head ul...
  • Causation Probability: 6 / 10
  • Causation Summary: If congenital CMV with neurological findings had been diagnosed at birth or shortly after, the infant would have received treatment—at least 6 weeks of treatment with IV ganciclovir which was standa...
  • Expert Summary: I am a board certified pediatric infectious disease specialist. I have been an attending physician for 13 years, not including the 6 years in training before that. As a pediatric infectious disease ph...
  • Similar Summary: See above—not infrequently. Congenital CMV occurs in 1/200 live births and infants symptomatic at birth are 10% of those, so about 1/2000 births. I have seen many infants with congenital CMV and tre...