Cardiothoracic Surgery Expert Witnesses in Pennsylvania

This highly qualified expert is board certified in interventional cardiology and has been practicing for 32+ years. He completed his residency training at the University of Michigan and his fellowship training at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University and the University of Heidelberg. He is a fellow of 5 professional associations, including the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions. He has been listed as one of the "Best Doctors in America" for 18 consecutive years and was honored with Harvard University's Rose Seegal Prize. He has published 31+ manuscripts on renowned medical journals and is the former director of interventional cardiology at Christiana Care Health System. Currently, he is a clinical professor of cardiology at a major university.

This highly qualified expert earned his MD and completed his Surgery residency and Thoracic Surgery fellowship from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. This expert is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Association for Academic Surgery. He has published 14 peer-reviewed journal articles, 4 books and has given multiple professional and scientific presentations. He serves as a reviewer for major surgery journals and is the current Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at a university-affiliated medical center.

This expert specializes in cardiology and internal medicine. She earned her BA in economics from Harvard College and her MD from New York University. She completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical Center before completing a fellowship in healthcare policy at the US Department of Health and Human Services. She then proceeded to complete a fellowship in cardiology and a fellowship in heart failure at Columbia University Medical Center. This expert is board certified in internal medicine, with subspecialties in cardiovascular disease and advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology. She is heavily involved in research, having authored several peer-reviewed scientific articles, presented posters at cardiology conferences, and been an invited speaker for numerous conferences. She was formerly an instructor of medicine at NYU. Currently, this expert is the director of heart failure service and an attending physician at a distinguished NY hospital system, as well as an assistant professor of medicine at a prominent medical school in NY.

This highly qualified expert holds three board certifications and specializes in interventional cardiology. She received her BS in biochemistry and molecular biology from Chestnut Hill College before going on to earn both her PhD in cardiovascular biology and her MD from Drexel University. She also received her MCR from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital. She then completed two fellowships at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: one in general cardiology and the other in interventional cardiology. This expert is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and interventional cardiology. She is active in her field as a member of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. She is also highly involved in research, having authored numerous articles and abstracts on cardiology. Currently, this expert serves as the associate director of structural and valvular heart disease, the co-director and co-founder of the maternal fetal medicine-cardiology joint program, and the program director for the interventional cardiology fellowship at a major medical school in New York.

This expert has extensive experience in pulmonary, sleep, and critical care medicine. He received his BA from Middlebury College before earning his MD from Columbia University. He then also completed a medical Spanish program through the AEC Spanish Institute in Costa Rica and a clinical research education program through the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He completed an internship and residency in the department of medicine and a fellowship in the pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine division at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He spent one year of his fellowship as the chief fellow and spent an additional year in the program specializing as a sleep fellow. This expert is quadruple-board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, critical care medicine, and sleep medicine. He is involved in research in the field, having authored several publications and abstracts. He has formerly served as a moonlighter in the adult day services cardiology telemetry unit and the respiratory care unit at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, as well as a hospitalist at Clutha Health First in New Zealand. Currently, this expert is an assistant professor of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at a distinguished university and a moonlighter in the inpatient oncology unit at a major hospital system in New York.

This highly-qualified acute care nurse has more than 15 years of experience in her field, specializing in cardiac surgery and pulmonary transplant in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She earned her ASN from Anne Arundel Community College, her BSN from the College of Notre Dame, and her MSN and DNP in acute care nursing from the University of Maryland. This expert is a licensed registered nurse practitioner and holds an additional certification in acute care nursing. She is active in her field as a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the American Society of Transplantation. She began her career as a clinical nurse intern on the medical/surgical unit at Johns Hopkins. She then served as a registered nurse in the coronary care ICU at Baltimore Washington Medical Center before serving as an acute care nurse practitioner in the cardiac surgery ICU and telemetry step-down units at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She is currently a senior acute care nurse practitioner in the pulmonary transplant unit at a major university-affiliated medical center in Maryland, where she also serves on the adjunct faculty.

She focuses on the clinical aspects of science, but also on quality and patient safety, which makes her a perfect fit for this case. She is a member of numerous institutional, national, and international professional societies, and has created societies as well. She has been published in medical journals and books over 60 times and holds editorial position for many medical journals. She’s presented to her peers and students over 75 times, and has research completed and ongoing. She’s also won many honors and awards such as her college of medicine’s Excellence in Teaching Award for the Department of Surgery. She does predominantly thoracic work and is very familiar with this issue and complication.

This double board certified thoracic surgeon has has practicing for nearly 20 years. An editor of six different academic journals, this expert is widely published and has presented extensively across the U.S. on esophagectomy and other esophageal complications. He is an Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery at a major medical university, as well as the Director of the Esophageal Surgery Program and the Chief of Thoracic Surgery and the same institution.

This board certified expert has been practicing for over 35 years. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center prior to completing both a fellowship in Cardiology and a Preceptorship in Cardiac Electrophysiology. Awarded the honor of Fellow of both the American College of Cardiology and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, he is currently a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at a top medical school, where he also serves as the Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine.

This highly qualified expert has almost 30 years of experience as a perfusionist. He received a B.S. in Biology from Nazareth College of Rochester and a M.S. in Education from the State University of New York in Albany. He is board certified in Cardiovascular Perfusion and has been elected as a Fellow to the American Academy of Cardiovascular Perfusion where he previously served as President. He has published many articles on various perfusion methods and currently serves as Associate Professor and Clinical Coordinator in the Department of Cardiovascular Perfusion at a medical university in New York.

This extremely qualified Interventional Cardiology expert is Fellowship trained in both Cardiovascular Medicine and Interventional Cardiology. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Endovascular Medicine, Interventional Cardiology and Nuclear Cardiology. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Cardiac Angiography. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at an Ivy League Medical School and Associate Director of Endovascular Services at a major university medical center.

This highly qualified expert is a board certified Pediatric Cardiologist who has practiced and taught at some of nation's top-ranking children's hospitals. He is the former Director of the Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, a leading institution in pediatric cardiology, and is the current Chair of Pediatric Cardiology at a major medical university.

This expert is the Chief of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic & Vascular Surgery, as well as the director of congenital and pediatric cardiac surgery and a Calvin F. Barber Professor of Surgery at his institution. He is board certified in surgery, thoracic surgery and congenital heart surgery specializing in valve repair and reconstruction, neonatal cardiac surgery, hybrid procedures complex biventricular repairs, and adult congenital heart surgery.

This board certified expert has been practicing for over 15 years. He completed a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Stanford University as well as a research fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles that have appeared in journals such as the "Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery" and the "Annals of Thoracic Surgery", while he serves as a reviewer for the "World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease", among others. He holds membership in the Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia of the American Heart Association, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and the Western Thoracic Surgical Association, and he has been presented at conferences such as the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association. Currently, this expert is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at a major medical university, as well as the Director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at a major children's hospital.

This highly qualified Professor of Cardiac Surgery is double board certified in general and thoracic surgery. He completed Fellowship training in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Congenital Heart Surgery, and Heart Transplant & Device Surgery at the prestigious UCLA Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology as well as a member of multiple professional organizations including the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery, and the American Heart Association. He has published 31 peer-reviewed journal articles and is frequently invited to lecture as a guest speaker both nationally and internationally.

This 3x board certified expert received his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University and his M.D. degree from Duke University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine, and his fellowship training in Clinical and Interventional Cardiology at NYPH-Cornell Campus. He also completed an advanced training in structural and peripheral vascular fellowship at Hahnemann University hospital. He is extensively published with 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and 6 books, book chapters, and abstracts. He has received numerous honors and awards, and he currently serves as an Assistant Professor at a top-ranking medical institution.