Anesthesiology Expert Witnesses

This expert has over twenty five years of experience as a nurse anesthetist (CRNA). Over his career, this CRNA worked for multiple independent anesthesia firms providing anesthesia services to various hospitals across Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky. Much of his work is done in CRNA-only rural hospitals and surgery centers. This expert has also worked as a clinical instructor at Arkansas State University and Union University in the nurse anesthesia programs. Currently, this CRNA works in a small community hospital providing anesthesia services for multiple surgical specialties and obstetrics. Additionally, this expert provides services for a free-standing GI center.

This double board certified nurse practitioner has been practicing for over a decade in acute and critical care. A member of many professional nursing societies, including the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, this expert is also a member of the ANCC Board Examination Acute Care Content Expert Panel and a reviewer for the journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Not only is this expert currently an Assistant Professor of both Nursing and Anesthesiology at a major medical university, but he is also the Director of the ACNP program at the same institution.

This double board certified expert has been practicing for 25 years. He obtained his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, completed an Anesthesiology residency at Columbia University, and completed a Pain Management fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University. Extensively published in the field, he sits on the Editorial Boards of "Pain", "Anesthesiology", "Anesthesia & Analgesia", "Pain Medicine", "Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine", and "Pain Physician", among others, while he is also a member of the Advisory Board of the American Pain Foundation. Currently, this expert is a Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at 2 major medical universities. He has received both government and private funding for numerous studies, including for facet pain, neck pain, sacroiliac joint pain, epidural steroid injections and headaches. He also serves as the Director of Pain Research at a major medical center and the Chief of Anesthesia and Operative Services at another major hospital.

This expert currently serves as Medical Director for a pain treatment physicians group and as Staff Anesthesiologist for three medical centers in North Carolina. He received a M.D. from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and finished a fellowship in Pain Management at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. A member of various professional organizations including the American Society of Anesthesiologists , he serves as a peer reviewer for various insurance carriers related to pain management and anesthesia. He has experience as an expert witness relating to anesthesia and pain management. He also serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors for a pain medicine association.

This board certified Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at a major university completed internship at Yale University School of Medicine and residency at University of Virginia. He is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the International Anesthesia Research Society and the Virginia Society of Anesthesiologists. He won the Anesthesiology Faculty Annual Resident Teaching Award for two consecutive years for his outstanding contribution to academia.

This expert is a board certified pain management physician who has been practicing for over 15 years. He is a member of the American Pain Society and the American Medical Association, and has over 50 journal articles published in the field. He is the Chief of Pain Medicine at a major university in California, and he is the author of pain management book, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

This highly qualified Professor of Anesthesiology received a bachelors degree from Harvard University before gaining her medical degree from the prestigious Yale University School of Medicine. She is Fellowship trained in Obstetric Anesthesiology and board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology . This expert is a member of numerous professional organizations including the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Society of Anesthesia. She has published eight peer-reviewed journal articles as well as four textbooks. She is a former Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Columbia University.

This highly qualified, fellowship trained expert has over twenty years of experience in anesthesiology. She is a member of numerous anesthesiology societies, and has held various leadership positions in many of them. She has been presented with multiple awards for her research on obstetric anesthesia, and has over seventy peer reviewed articles and published abstracts on various anesthesiology topics. In her current position as a professor, this highly qualified expert has focused her educational vision around the need to develop a new division of Obstetric Anesthesia at a Washington State medical center. With the goal to build a strong clinical anesthesia program for a particularly high-risk obstetric service providing care to the sickest population in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, she recruited academic anesthesiologists, each with specific skills and expertise, to train obstetric anesthesiologists for a career in academic medicine. She was able to achieve this goal by demonstrating innovative leadership and mentorship, and being a role model as a clinical educator.

This expert has been preforming endotracheal intubations since 1974 and have been teaching the skill since 1978. He was the supervisor for paramedic training in New York City prior to going to medical school and performed and taught endotracheal intubation to paramedic students and intubated on the streets of the Bronx. For the last twenty years, he has taught two advanced trauma life support (ATLS) courses per year to emergency medicine and surgical residents and attending physicians.

This expert has been a practicing CRNA for 10+ years in both NY and VA working in large medical centers. She received her medical training at among the nation's top healthcare programs, and holds both a clinical doctorate and PhD. She is published and has lectured nationally and internationally. Additionally, she is adjunct faculty and a clinical preceptor for a nationally ranked Nurse Anesthesia program.

This double board certified expert has been practicing for over 10 years. Fellowship trained in Pain Medicine and a member of multiple prestigious professional societies, he is adept at managing intrathecal pain pumps. He is not only an Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at a major medical university, but also the Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine at the same institution and the DIrector of the Center for Pain Management at his institution's affiliated hospital.

This board-certified Anesthesiologist is currently the Medical Director of Pain Medicine at one of the nation's most prestigious University Medical Centers, as well as an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the same university. He earned his MD from Tufts University School of Medicine, completed his fellowship in pain medicine from Weill Cornell Medical College, completed his Anesthesia residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center, and completed his Medicine Internship at Caritas Carney Hospital. This expert is a member of numerous societies in the fields of anesthesiology and pain medicine. He has also been published more than 10 times in the relevant fields.

This highly qualified expert is board certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine and has years of practice. He completed his internship training at New England Medical Center and his residency training in anesthesiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital before concluding a fellowship in pain management at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is the president of the Massachusetts Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and a member of various other professional associations, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. He is a former instructor of anesthesiology at Harvard University and the former director of the acute postoperative pain service at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Currently, he is an assistant professor of pain management at a top 5 university, where he also directs the interventional pain service.

This fellowship trained, board certified expert earned his BA from Johns Hopkins and his MD from Drexel University School of Medicine. He completed both a residency and fellowship in Anesthesiology at Thomas Jefferson University. This expert is boarded in both anesthesiology as well as pain management. Formerly, this expert served as Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Drexel University and as the Chief of Anesthesiology at Northeastern Hospital. He remains engaged in his field as member of multiple societies, including The American Academy of Anesthesiology and The American Academy of Pain Management. Currently, this expert serves as a pain management physician in a successful private practice.

Among other positions, this highly qualified and board-certified expert currently serves as Professor of Anesthesiology at University of Alabama at Birmingham and Chief Anesthesiologist at The Birmingham VAMC in Alabama where he also works as the Operating Room Director. He received a M.D. from the Cairo University School of Medicine and finished a fellowship in Obstetric Anesthesiology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. A member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, he is very active in committees including the Veteran Administration National Anesthesia Quality Improvement Project and the Perioperative Assessment Task Force.

This expert is practicing Anesthesiologist in the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario, Canada. He is the former Corporate Chief of Anesthesia and co-Medical Director of the Surgical Program at William Osler Health System. He graduated from McMaster Medicine in 1994 then completed my Anesthesia residency at the University of Toronto in 1999. He has Prepared over 450 comprehensive Medical Legal reports in the domains of medical malpractice (plaintiff and defense), personal injury (plaintiff, defense, accident benefits, non-earner, and tort), long-term disability, and Workman's Compensation Board. He is a Diplomate of the Canadian Academy of Pain Management and also a member of the Chronic Pain Section of the Canadian Anesthesiologists Society and the American Society for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners (ABIME) to use the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment 6th Edition. He has received the Ontario Medical Association Section on Anesthesiology's Distinguished Service Award.

This board certified expert has been practicing for over 30 years. Fellowship trained in Pediatric Anesthesiology, he has published over 170 peer-reviewed articles, textbook chapters, and abstracts and sits on the Editorial Boards for two Anethesiology publications. He has been an invited lecturer at a multitude of national conferences and proceedings, as well as at international conferences such as the meeting of the World Congress of Anesthesiologists. This expert is currently a Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at a major medical university, where he is also the Section Chief of Pediatric Anesthesiology and the Director of the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship.

This double board certified Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery is a member of numerous prestigious professional societies such as the International Anesthesia Research Society, Society for Technology in Anesthesia and the American Society of Anesthesiologists. He has published widely in a variety of medical journals including the Journal of Critical Care, Respiratory Care and Educational Synopses in Anesthesia and Critical Care. In addition to his articles , this expert has authored two textbooks and multiple textbook chapters.

This double board certified expert has a BS in Biochemistry from Hartwick College and an MD from Harvard Medical School. He is a member of American Pain Society, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and International Association for the Study of Pain. Previously, he was Attending Anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and currently he is Assistant Professor, Attending Anesthesiologist and Pain Specialist at a major university medical center in NY. His expertise is in acute and chronic pain management, anesthesiology, regional anesthesia, perioperative medicine.

This highly qualified and board certified Pediatric Anesthesiology expert received her medical degree from Northwestern University and went on complete post-graduate training in Pediatric Anesthesia at the University of Chicago Medical Center. This expert is member of several professional organizations including the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. She has published in highly regarded peer-reviewed journals. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at a top University, where she also serves as the Co-Division Chief of Pediatric Anesthesiology.