Autopsy Expert Witnesses

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Autopsy expert witnesses practice in a variety of fields, including forensic pathology, clinical pathology, and medicolegal death investigation. Some of the most common specialties include cause of death analysis, injury pattern interpretation, toxicology correlation, and time-of-death estimation. They can opine on the effects of trauma, disease, drugs, medical errors, and environmental factors on mortality.

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Average Autopsy Expert Witnesses Court Fees

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  • Review Fee $450/hr
    Deposition Fee $450/hr

    This expert is board certified in pathology, with a particular focus on head and neck, cytopathology and ocular pathology. Recognized in her field for her research and clinical work, she has been published in over 50 peer-reviewed journals. She currently works at a top medical school as a practioner and researcher. Her clinical focuses include cytopathology, ocular pathology and head and neck pathology.

    Director, A Top University-Affiliated Medical Center in MA

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Waltham,

    Massachusetts

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  • Review Fee $400/hr
    Deposition Fee $500/hr
    Court Fee $600/hr

    This board certified expert has been practicing for over 40 years. A former Fellow of the College of American Pathologists, he is currently an Associate Editor for the Atlas of Pathology - Non-Tumor Diagnostic Surgical Pathology, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of both Modern Pathology and Fetal and Pediatric Pathology. Currently, this expert is a Professor in the Department of Pathology at a major medical university, where he has been a full professor for 18 years.

    Emeritus Professor, A Medical University in MD

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), Northwestern University

    Bethesda,

    Maryland

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  • Review Fee $700/hr
    Deposition Fee $700/hr
    Court Fee $700/hr

    This board-certified and fellowship-trained expert has over 15 years of experience as a pathologist. He has presented both nationally and internationally and has authored over 50 publications on the topic of pulmonary pathology. Elected as a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists, he currently serves as a tenured Associate Professor of Pathology and Staff Pathologist at a major university medical center.

    Pathologist, Major University Medical Center

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), Georgetown University School of Medicine

    Durham,

    North Carolina

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  • This board certified pathologist has been practicing for more than 35 years. He is extremely well established and respected in the field, having authored more than 175 publications on pathology and having spoke at a number of prestigious conferences and symposiums in the field. He is a leading member of several pathologic societies and currently serves as a professor of pathology and immunology at a top university medical center.

    Emeritus Professor of Pathology, A university medical center

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), Cairo University

    California

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  • Review Fee $250/hr
    Deposition Fee $250/hr

    This expert is board certified in internal medicine with a subspeciality in transplant hepatology. He earned his BS from Indiana University and his MD from the University of Chicago. He completed residency training at the University of Pennsylvania and St. Luke's Hospital, and fellowship training in liver diseases at Mount Sinai Hospital. He has authored more than 20 publications in the hepatology and liver disease fields, and belongs to a number of prestigious societies in the space, including the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Currently, this expert serves as the Clinical Director of Hepatology and Co-Director of Transplant Hepatology at a top university medical center.

    Co-director of Transplant Hepatology, Major NY Medical Institution

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), The University of Chicago Pritzker

    New York,

    New York

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  • Review Fee $800/hr
    Deposition Fee $800/hr
    Court Fee $800/hr

    This incredibly well credentialed expert is widely heralded as the utmost authority on gynecological pathology. He has over 30 years of experience at some of the most prestigious clinical and academic positions in the country. He is board certified in both anatomical and clinical pathology with an emphasis on gynecological pathology. He was a former professor and attending pathologist at USC medical school and Yale University Medical school as well as the associate director of the Pathology and Immunohistochemical lab at USC. He then moved on to the be director of both the gynecologic pathology department and director of the gynecologic fellowship program at Yale. He is currently a tenured full professor of pathology and gynecology, the director of the gynecological pathology program, and attending pathologist at a major university medical center, as well as the co-director of the tissue acquisition and cellular/molecular analysis shared service at a major cancer treatment center where he has published a plethora of peer reviewed journal articles, a book and many book chapters, and abstracts on the various topics in the field of gynecologic pathology and gynecologic oncology.

    Director, A Medical School in TX

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), Shanghai Medical University

    Irving,

    Texas

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  • This expert is Board Certified in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Pathology, completing Fellowships in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/BMT and Transfusion Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and the American Society of Hematology, and has 50 publications in the field of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. She is a former Assistant Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics at Emory University, and currently is the Medical Director of Blood and Tissue Services, along with being an Associate Professor of both Pathology and Pediatrics at a top medical university.

    Director of Clinical Research, Georgia-based university center for Transfusion and Cellular Therapies

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of South Florida College of Medicine

    Georgia

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  • Review Fee $700/hr
    Deposition Fee $900/hr

    This highly qualified pathologist and cancer research scientist has more than 45 years in active clinical medical practice delivering patient care and conducting laboratory-based biomedical research. This places him in a unique position to evaluate causation of disease, including occupational exposures. He also has considerable medico-legal experience. Board-certified in the UK, his clinical proficiency includes expertise in specialized areas including pulmonary, cardiac, breast, urological, and neurological diseases at a number of prestigious university medical centers. He is the former director of the University of California - San Diego's comprehensive cancer and has authored more than 300 publications in the field. This expert is currently a professor of pathology at a major university medical center in California.

    Emeritus Director, A Major University Medical Center in CA

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Oxford University

    San Diego,

    California

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  • Review Fee $500/hr
    Deposition Fee $600/hr
    Court Fee $600/hr

    This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of combined academic and field experience in Cytogenetics. She holds a master's degree in biology and a doctoral degree in human genetics, from highly respected institutions. She is a member of various genetics professional societies including the American Society of Human Genetics. She has been invited to lecture on topics such as Chromosome Translocation and is published in respected journals such as "Genes, Chromosomes, and Cancer". She earned her BA at Reed College, M.S. in Population Biology at Stanford University, and PhD in Human Genetics at the University of Maryland at Baltimore.

    Clinical Associate Professor II, Major University

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Maryland at Baltimore

    Ann Arbor,

    Michigan

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  • Review Fee $600/hr
    Deposition Fee $600/hr

    This qualified, board certified pathology expert has remained in active practice for over 20 years. He has a vast body of grant-funded research and publication experience in the field of surgical pathology with expertise in thoracic pathology (lung, pleura and mediastinum), endocrine pathology (thyroid) and soft tissue tumors. He has served in such high ranking departmental positions as Director of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology for the Ohio State University Hospitals and is currently a Chairman of Pathology at a major medical school in the USA.

    Chairman, A medical college in WI

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), The Catholic University School of Medicine, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Delafield,

    Wisconsin

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  • Review Fee $650/hr
    Deposition Fee $650/hr
    Court Fee $650/hr

    This board-certified and fellowship-trained expert has 16 years of experience in forensic pathology. After receiving her M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, she finished a fellowship in Anatomic Pathology at the University of North Carolina and a fellowship in Forensic Pathology at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A member of the National Association of Medical Examiners and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, she has experience working at various offices, including Galveston County, Indiana University School of Medicine and the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office, as a medical examiner and forensic pathologist. Her primary practice is as a consultant in forensic pathology. She is President and Consultant for a forensic pathology consultation company, providing expertise in all types of death cases.

    Owner and Forensic Pathologist, A Forensic Pathology Consulting Firm in TX

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

    Houston,

    Texas

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  • Review Fee $500/hr
    Deposition Fee $500/hr

    This board certified expert has been practicing for over 20 years. He completed his Pathology residency at the Holy Mercy Hospital of Sao Paulo and a second Pathology residency at the University of Texas - Houston prior to completing a Fellowship in Surgical Pathology at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and a Gastrointestinal Pathology fellowship at Yale University. He is widely published in journals such as "World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology", "The International Journal of Gynecological Pathology" and "The American Journal of Surgical Pathology" and holds membership in multiple distinguished pathological societies. He has received the 'Attending of the Year in Anatomic Pathology" award multiple times. A former Assistant Clinical Professor of Pathology at Yale University, he is currently an Associate Professor of Pathology and the Surgical Pathology Director at another major medical university.

    Associate Professor of Pathology, Major Medical University

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Pernambuco (Brazil)

    New York,

    New York

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  • Review Fee $200/hr

    This highly experienced Professor of pathology is board certified in Anatomic Pathology and completed fellowship training in both Oncologic Anatomic Pathology and Experimental Pathology. He has received multiple awards for his contributions to his field. He is a member of several professional societies including the International Academy of Pathology and the American Association for Cancer Research. He has served on the review boards of multiple medical journals and has published over 50 peer reviewed journal articles himself. He is highly active in the research community having won millions of dollars in grants for his projects.

    Professor of Pathology, A Michigan based university

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), Second Medical School, Naples, Italy

    Detroit,

    Michigan

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  • Review Fee $400/hr
    Deposition Fee $400/hr
    Court Fee $500/hr

    This accomplished expert is a highly experienced pathologist who completed medical school in India and went on to complete a residency in Pathology at The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The expert has examined about 25000 liver, kidney and gastrointestinal biopsies in his career.He has been invited to speak over 200 times on topics ranging from hepatitis C, diseases of the kidney, and viral infections in transplant patients.internal fluid illnesses following organ transplants to viral infections. He is experienced in writing reports and testifying for medicolegal cases.

    Professor, A University in PA

    Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Delhi University

    Pittsburgh,

    Pennsylvania

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  • Review Fee $600/hr
    Deposition Fee $700/hr
    Court Fee $700/hr

    This extremely qualified expert is board certified in pathology and has been practicing for 20+ years. He completed his internship training at Rohtak Medical College, India, and his residency training at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University, where he also pursued further postdoctoral training focusing on breast pathology. He is a member of multiple professional associations, including the American Association for Cancer Research, the Cancer and Leukemia Group and the US and Canadian Academy of Pathology. He has published 60+ peer-reviewed journal articles and serves as a reviewed for 6+ renowned medical journals. He lectures both nationally and internationally and was honored for his teaching by Georgetown University in 2002. He is a current professor of pathology at a major university and the current director of surgical pathology, immunohistochemistry and breast pathology at a major hospital in New York.

    Director, Major Hospital

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), All India Institute of Medical Sciences

    New York,

    New York

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  • Review Fee $300/hr
    Deposition Fee $300/hr

    This board certified expert earned a BS from the University of Pittsburgh and her MD from New York Medical College. She completed her residency at Yale New Haven Hospital and subsequently pursued fellowships in Forensic Pathology and Perinatal & Pediatric Pathology. She is actively involved in teaching, supervising, and mentoring medical students and residents. Currently, she serves as a staff pathologist at a prominent Southeastern medical center and lectures on topics in forensic pathology, perinatal pathology, and death certification.

    Assistant Professor of Forensic Pathology, A University Affiliated Medical Center

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), New York Medical College

    Johnson City,

    Tennessee

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  • Review Fee $600/hr

    This senior pathologist is Board Certified in neuropathology and anatomic pathology, and trained in forensic pathology. He earned his M.D. and a Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology from the University of Chicago. The expert spent the major part of his career in academia including positions as a professor of pathology and vice chairperson of the department of pharmacological and physiological sciences at the University of Chicago, as the chair of the department of pathology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and as an endowed professor of pathology and neurology at Emory University. he has coauthored over 140 publications and is a member of several relevant medical associations, including the American Association of Investigative Pathology, the American Association of Neuropathologists, and the International Academy of Pathology. Since 2010 this expert practiced forensic pathology in several major metropolitan offices. He has been qualified as an expert and testified in numerous criminal and civil trials. He currently works privately as an expert consultant in anatomic, neuropathology and forensic pathology.

    Consultant, Neuropathology, Forensic Pathology, General Pathology, PA

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Chicago

    Columbus,

    Pennsylvania

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  • Review Fee $600/hr
    Deposition Fee $600/hr
    Court Fee $600/hr

    This highly qualified expert has spent over 50 years working in blood banking and transfusion medicine. He earned his M.D. from UCLA, where he also completed his internship. The expert finished his residency in medicine in the San Francisco area, at UC Hospitals and San Francisco General Hospital. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Blood Banking, and he is licensed in California and New York. The expert previously served as the Medical Director and Chief Executive Officer at BloodSource, a multi-location blood bank in California, from 1983 until 2004. He was also a Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and Georgetown University School of Medicine; he continues to teach at a university in California. The expert is a member of the American Association of Blood Banks and a Past President of the International Society of Blood Transfusion.

    Medical Director, A Medical Laboratory in CA

    Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of California Los Angeles

    Walnut Creek,

    California

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  • This qualified expert of Gynecology and Obstetrics Pathology obtained his MD from Taipei Medical University and his PhD in Pathology from University of Pennsylvania. He holds the Endowed Chair position of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Directorship of the Gynecologic Pathology Research Program, and the Co-directorship of the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Program at a top university school of medicine. He completed his Post Doctorate in Cancer Biology at The Wister Institute and his Residency in Pathology, his Fellowship in Gynecologic Pathology, and his Research Fellowship in Oncology at Johns Hopkins University. He is Board Certified in Anatomic Pathology and is a member of the prestigious Association for Cancer Research, American Society for Investigative Pathology, and the International Association of Gynecologic Pathologists. He has 300+ Publications on Gynecology and Obstetrics Pathology and is currently a distinguished Professor of Gynecology/Obstetrics, Pathology and Oncology. He has been a consultant for legal cases for many years.

    Co-Director, A Top Medical School in MD

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Pennsylvania

    Baltimore,

    Maryland

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  • Review Fee $150/hr
    Deposition Fee $150/hr
    Court Fee $150/hr

    This expert is a third generation Funeral Director at a family run funeral home in GA. He is a 1995 Graduate of John Milledge Academy, and is a Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer. He is a 1999 Graduate of Gupton - Jones College of Funeral Service where he was Parliamentarian on the Student Council and a member of the Theta Chapter of Pi Sigma Eta, which is the National Academic Honor Fraternity for Funeral Directors. He is a member of the Georgia Funeral Directors Association, The Independent Funeral Directors of Georgia, The Academy of Graduate Embalmers of Georgia, The American Society of Embalmers, The National Funeral Directors Association, and the International Conference of Post Mortem Reconstructive Surgery, as well as having completed the ICCFA University's School of Advanced Embalming Technique. In the Spring of 2008, he was appointed by the Secretary of State's Office and The Georgia State Board of Funeral Service to serve as a Subject Matter Expert.

    Funeral Director, A family run funeral home

    Graduate, ICCFA University's School of Advanced Embalming Technique

    Barnesville,

    Georgia

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Related Specialties

What Can an Autopsy Expert Witness Opine On?

External Examination

Visual inspection of the body surface.

Internal Examination

Dissection to assess internal organs.

Tissue Sampling

Collecting samples for histological analysis.

Cause of Death Determination

Identifying the primary cause of death.

Documentation and Reporting

Recording findings for legal purposes.

Toxicology Analysis

Testing for substances in bodily fluids.

FAQs for Autopsy Expert Witnesses

What is a autopsy expert witness?

An autopsy expert witness is a forensic pathologist who analyzes postmortem findings to determine cause and manner of death. They assist by reviewing autopsy records, preparing reports, and testifying to clarify medical and forensic issues.

What types of cases can an autopsy expert witness provide assistance with?

An autopsy expert witness assists with homicide, suspicious death, medical malpractice, wrongful death, toxicology, trauma, child abuse, and in-custody death cases.

How can an autopsy expert witness strengthen causation arguments in wrongful death litigation?

An autopsy expert witness strengthens causation arguments in wrongful death litigation by linking medical findings to the death, clarifying mechanisms of injury, and rebutting alternative causes.

What credentials should attorneys prioritize when retaining an autopsy expert witness?

Attorneys should prioritize an autopsy expert witness with board certification in pathology, extensive autopsy experience, clear testimony history, and strong medico-legal credentials.

How does an autopsy expert witness evaluate consistency between injuries and alleged mechanisms?

An autopsy expert witness evaluates consistency by comparing injury patterns, internal findings, and medical records with the alleged mechanisms using forensic pathology principles.

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