Pain Management Expert Witnesses in California

This highly qualified, board certified expert earned his Bachelor's degree in Kinesiology from the California state University at Fullerton and then completed his Doctor of Chiropractic degree at the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic. This was followed by an internship at Glendal Chiropractic Clinic. This expert is a member of numerous chiropractic societies, and he was even elected as president of one of them. This expert has earned numerous awards for his contributions to the field of chiropractic. This expert has published 7 peer reviewed papers and 2 books and has been a reviewer for 2 chiropractic journals. This expert previously served as president of the International Chiropractors Association of California, and worked as a licensed chiropractor at multiple clinics. This expert also served as part of the sports medicine staff of numerous USA teams in cluding the LA Olympics. This expert currently serves as instructor of biomedical sciences and professional advancement at two different univeristies and also operates a chiropractic private practice.

This expert is triple board certified in Family Medicine, Addiction Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She earned her BS from Virginia Tech as well as Registered Dietitian License. From there she moved on to Stanford University, where she earned her MD. She completed a residency in Family Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. She has over 25+ years of diverse clinical experience as well as extensive experience teaching medical students, residents, and advanced practitioners (FNP, PA's). Her expertise includes the Primary Care Scope of Practice with special focus in the evaluation and treatment of acute pain, chronic pain and addiction. She is directly involved in Stanford's evolving Standards of Care for Opiate Prescribing due to a national prescription drug abuse crisis in our youth. She is a certified Mind Body Medicine Consultant through the Center for Mind Body Medicine in Washington DC. This included five year training in psycho-neuro-immunology, employing therapies such as yoga and other body work, guided-imagery, walking meditation, journaling and peer counseling as adjuncts to the Allopathic Medicine and traditional CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) approach. In addition to her clinical duties, she has authored peer reviewed journal article and 5+ book chapters. She serves on several committees at her university and is actively involved in an overdose preventino organization.

This expert is a Board Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner with a background in Primary Care and Mental Health. Since 2007, she's helped many hundreds of clients as a certified hypnotherapist, certified pain management hypnotist, transformational life coach, and intuitive spiritual coach. She teaches you how to release unwanted and stuck emotions and patterns through powerful mind-body healing techniques and based on concepts of energy psychology, hypnotherapy, neurolinguistic reprogramming ("NLP") and emotional freedom technique (EFT Tapping). She's also a certified and licensed Holistic Massage Practitioner. She offers a holistic and customized approach to mental health and well-being. This expert's foundation practice comes from a medical, intuitive healing, and spiritual place. She provides a professional, safe, non-judgmental, nurturing environment. She was former medic at Burning Man.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 10 years of experience in anesthesiology and interventional pain medicine. He earned his BS in physiology and BA in spanish literature at the University of California at Davis before completing his MD from the University of California Los Angeles. Additionally, he earned his Masters in Public Health from the University of California Los Angeles and completed his internship in internal medicine there as well. This expert completed his residency and fellowship in anesthesiology at Columbia University and did an additional fellowship in interventional pain medicine at the University of California Davis. He is dual board-certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine by the American Board of Anesthesiology and is a licensed physician in California and New York. He is a member of many prestigious organizations including the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the American Pan Society and the International Association for the Study of Pain. He has published 13 peer-reviewed journal articles, 6 textbook chapter and a number of abstracts and other publications. This expert formerly served as an assistant professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of California Davis. Currently, he is the director of the Cancer Pain Management and Supportive Care program and the director of the Pain Medicine Tele-Health program at a California medical university. Additionally, he is an associate professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine.

This board certified expert earned a BS from the University of Maryland, summa cum laude, and MD from Temple University School of Medicine. Residency and fellowship training were completed at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine, respectively. He is actively involved in research and is responsible for training and mentoring medical student, residents, and fellows in his clinical practice. Currently, he is a Clinical Assistant Professor, the Associate Division Chief of Education, and the Chair of the Clinical Competency Committee in the department of Anesthesiology, Pain & Perioperative Medicine at a major university affiliated medical center.

This expert is responsible for the creation of the Outpatient Occupational Therapy Program at St Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles, and was the first Certified Stroke Rehabilitation Specialist in the city. He has clinical experience in acute care, intensive care, transitional care, inpatient rehab, skilled nursing, assisted living, and home health occupational therapy. He previously served on the faculty of the occupational therapy program at the University of Southern California, and is currently an assistant professor of clinical occupational therapy at a school for allied health sciences in the Los Angeles area.

This expert, a native of Southern California, completed his undergraduate education at Pacific Union College before attending Loma Linda University School of Medicine where he received his MD degree in 2008. He completed an Internal Medicine internship followed by a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency and continued his specialization with a Pain Management fellowship, all at Loma Linda. He is double board certified in PM&R and Pain Medicine.

This highly-expert has 15 years of experience as an anesthesiologist, with extensive experience in hospital administration, acute pain management, and perioperative evaluations, as well as general, regional, and neuraxial anesthesia for infants, children, and adults. He earned both his BS in microbiology and molecular genetics and MD from UCLA before going on to complete a pediatric internship at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital. He subsequently completed an anesthesiology residency at Stanford University and a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. This expert is board-certified in anesthesiology with a subspecialty in pediatric anesthesiology. He also holds certifications in pediatric advanced life support and advanced cardiac life support. He has formerly served as a per diem anesthesiologist and sub-chief of pediatric anesthesia for Kaiser Permanente, as well as the founder and CEO of Dignified Housing Inc. Currently, this expert serves as a pediatric anesthesiologist for a major healthcare system, a pediatric dental anesthesiologist for a mobile anesthesia service in California, and a per diem anesthesiologist for an anesthesiology medical group in California.

This highly qualified expert in pediatric anesthesiology earned his BS and BA from the University of Rochester and his MD from SUNY Upstate Medical University. He then went on to complete an internship in medicine from St. John Hospital and Medical Center and two residencies in anesthesiology; one at Montefiore Medical Center of Albert Einstein University and the other at Maimonides Medical Center. He also completed a prestigious fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at UTSW's Dallas Children’s Medical Center. This expert is board-certified in anesthesiology and pediatric anesthesiology and is highly active in his field as a member of the American Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, the American Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine, and the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists. Formerly, he was an assistant professor of regional and pediatric anesthesiology at the University of Rochester as well as an anesthesiologist at St. Mary Healthcare. He is currently based in California working in a consultancy role for regional anesthesia at a healthcare institution.

This expert is an internal medicine physician with experience in musculoskeletal injuries and traumatic brain injury. He earned his BA in biology from the University of Virginia and his MD from George Washington University. He went on to complete his residency in internal medicine at George Washington University Medical Center and is now board certified in internal medicine. He formerly held a position at the University of California, San Diego as an associate professor of internal medicine and is currently an internal medicine physician at a private practice in California.

This expert has over 25 years of experience in healthcare administration with the majority of his experience focused on eldercare and senior living facilities. He has managed facilities ranging from 75 to 269 beds, in settings ranging from critical care to long term care including cardiology, orthopedics, rehabilitation services, dementia care, and assisted living. This expert is a licensed nursing home administrator and a certified residential care facility for the elderly administrator. Currently, he is the administrator of a skilled nursing facility with nearly 200 beds in California.

This qualified expert earned her BS in computer science from International Christian University in Japan before earning her DO from Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She subsequently completed an internship at Alameda County Medical Center, a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine, and a fellowship in pain medicine at UC San Diego. This expert is board-certified in both physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine, and holds certifications as an acupuncturist, a homeopath, and a massage therapist. For 5 years, she owned and operated Chi Fountain Integrative Medicine, an integrative medicine clinic located in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also has formerly served as a physician of physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine for Comprehensive Spine and Sports Center. This expert is currently based in California, where she serves as a qualified medical evaluator for a government department and as a physician of physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine for a medical group.

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 expert has over 10 years of experience as a physiatrist. He received his BA in mathematics and philosophy from Yale University before earning his MD from the University of California San Francisco. He subsequently completed an internship at Highland General Hospital and a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Stanford University, where he served as both academic chief resident and senior chief resident during his program. This expert is board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation. His expertise includes brain injury, amputations, polytrauma, spinal cord injury, burns, electrodiagnostics, pain management, musculoskeletal medicine, joint injections, botulinum toxin injection, nerve blocks, and rehabilitation from orthopedic surgeries. He formerly served as the medical director of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Palo Alto VA, an 18-bed acute inpatient rehabilitation unit that is 1 of 5 specialized centers in the US treating soldiers hurt in combat. This expert is currently a clinical assistant professor and the course director at a top medical school in California, as well as an attending physician at a polytrauma veteran rehabilitation center.