Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: MD
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Pediatrics - Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Area of Expertise: travel medicine, lyme disease, rocky mountain spotted fever, vaccines, tropical diseases, parasites, malaria, epidemiology
Year of Medical Training Completion: 2007
City of Practice: DURHAM
State of Practice: North Carolina
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 1
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 2
- 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: UConn
Year of Completion: 2000
Residency: UConn
Year of Completion: 2004
Fellowship: Harvard / Boston Children's
Year of Completion: 2007
Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: Professor
Current Academic Affiliation: Professor at Duke University School of Medicine
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
- $700
- $3500
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 diagnose and treat CMV infection in a newborn (Case #416)
- Medical Probability: 2 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: 1) The case synopsis gives no evidence that the child had CMV in the neonatal period. The differential diagnosis of these radiographic findings is not limited to CMV or even limited to "TORCH" infecti...
- Causation Probability: 2 / 10
- Causation Summary: As mentioned above, we lack data that therapy for CMV would have changed any of the child's outcomes.
- Expert Summary: Pediatric infectious diseases specialist, I see CMV in my clinic, I have numerous scientific publications about congenital CMV epidemiology and policy.
- Similar Summary: I see newborns with CMV frequently.
- Medical Probability: 3 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: (1) There is no information about the plastic object that was found in her bronchus. If it were known to be a medical device or a broken part of a medical device that is used in the mouth then I would...
- Causation Probability: 3 / 10
- Causation Summary: Without an obvious medical error I cannot conclude that there was causation.
- Expert Summary: Infectious diseases practitioner, also many years prior experience in hospital medicine.
- Similar Summary: I don't encounter cases like this.
5yo M Delayed Appendicitis Diagnosis, Rupture, Resection (Case #524)
- Medical Probability: 6 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: I am an infectious diseases specialist, so I would not comment on the standard of care of other specialties.
- Causation Probability: 6 / 10
- Causation Summary: This opinion is contingent upon what the standard of care would have dictated had it been followed. I would need to know the SOC expert's opinion to opine on whether an alternative course of treatment...
- Expert Summary: I am a board certified pediatric infectious diseases specialist.
- Similar Summary: Infectious diseases physicians are not typically consulted for appendicitis.
