Child Abuse and Neglect Expert Witnesses in Texas

This double board certified psychiatrist has been practicing for more than a decade. He completed residency training in general psychiatry at the University of New Mexico, and fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the same institution. He is currently a child psychiatrist at a major university medical center, where he also serves as an associate professor in the department of psychiatry and as the director of child psychiatric consultation services. His specific areas of expertise include pediatric brain injury, cultural issues with Hispanics and SW Native Americans, pediatric cancer and medical PTSD in children as well as misdiagnosis of medical conditions as being psychiatric in both children and adults.

This expert has 10 years of experience as a litigator and more than 30 years of experience as a staff person and volunteer in agencies advocating for victims of abuse and neglect. In addition to her Juris Doctorate and Masters Degree in Human Relations, she also has a diploma from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics in Interdisciplinary Training in Child Abuse and Neglect. A nationally and internationally recognized expert in the area of child sexual abuse prevention, she played an integral role in the research, development, and implementation of a child sexual abuse prevention program that is delivered in 87 U.S. Catholic dioceses, representing about 75% of the Catholics in the U.S. Currently, this expert is the Owner and Principal of a consulting firm that provides programs and services to educate adults about the nature and scope of child sexual abuse and teaches adults how to recognize other adults whose behavior may indicate that they are a potential risk to children. Her consulting firm also works with corporations and agencies to create policies, procedures, and processes for screening and supervising employees and volunteers who work with children.

This expert is highly qualified in the field of pediatric pathology. He earned his MD from the Medical College of Georgia and subsequently completed an internship in obstetrics and gynecology at the Mountain Area Health Education Center. He then completed a combined surgical and clinical pathology residency at Tulane University and a pediatric pathology fellowship at Louisiana State University. This expert is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology, with a subspecialty certification in pediatric pathology. He is active in his field as a member of the College of American Pathologists, the Society for Pediatric Pathology, and the Walter B. Morley Research Foundation Institutional Review Board. He was formerly an assistant professor of pediatric pathology at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. This expert is currently employed at a children's hospital in Louisiana as an anatomic pathologist, the medical director of hematology, the medical director of blood bank and transfusion medicine, and the medical director of point of care testing.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 10 years of experience in the field of pediatric critical care medicine. He received his BS in general science from Fort Hays State University before earning his MD from the University of Kansas. He then completed a pediatric residency and a pediatric critical care fellowship at the University of Texas. This expert is board-certified in pediatric critical care. He is active in his field as a member of several organizations, including the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Board of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is also involved in research, having authored several peer-reviewed publications and presented at several conferences. He has formerly served as a pediatric critical care and sedation attending physician at Sunrise Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital at OU Medical Center, as well as an assistant professor of clinical and translational sciences at the University of Oklahoma. Currently, this expert serves as an adjunct clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at an osteopathic medical school and as an attending physician in the pediatric critical care and sedation department at a children's hospital in Oklahoma.