Medical Devices Expert Witnesses in West Virginia

This expert has over 40 years of experience as a mechanical engineer. In addition to contributing to over 200 presentations in 38 countries, he has been extensively published in his field and is an established expert in forensic mechanical engineering. His expertise includes accident investigation and medical device liability. He now serves as a Senior Forensic Consultant for a biomechanics and biomedical engineering consulting firm.

This expert has over 40 years of experience as a mechanical engineer. His research in tribology, machining of advanced materials, medical device design, dental materials, and high temperature coatings is widely recognized in the scientific and engineering communities. He has published over two hundred fifty papers and reports related to machining of ceramics, mechanisms and mechanics of interfaces, wear and friction, boundary lubrication, and biotribology; and has given more than three hundred lectures on these subjects. He has served as President and CEO for a heart pump developer, a subsidiary for a product company where he served as Vice President of Biotechnology.

This decorated expert has a quarter century of electrical engineering experience, earning graduate qualifications at MIT, where his work had important biomedical applications. He is a member of several professional societies such as the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and Virginia Academy of Science. Active in research, he has won numerous grants and has been published widely. He has consulted on IP issues in the past and holds several patents for his inventions.

This biomedical and biomechanical expert spent over 15 years as a Professor at Johns Hopkins University and over 20 years as a member of their Applied Physics Laboratory. He has worked in biomedical implant analysis and design, materials biomechanics, and laminated composite analysis and design. He earned a B.S and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, as well as a Ph.D. in the same field from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The expert was named a Fellow in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2010 and was selected as the Specialty Chief Editor of the Frontiers online journal Biomechanics in 2013. He has written three book chapters, co-authored 100+ peer-reviewed publications, conference proceedings and presentations, and received 16 patents, including patents involving hip replacements dating back to the 1980s. He currently runs his own consulting firm specializing in composite design and analysis, biomechanics of impact, structural design and analysis, and proposal writing.

This highly qualified expert has over a decade's experience in orthopedic trauma medical device sales in both a field capacity as well as executive, following a career in law enforcement in special operations. Extensive experience, has been in thousands of surgical procedures; and has previously conducted hundreds of criminal investigations. At DePuy Synthes, Companies of Johnson & Johnson, he managed a large territory in Orthopedic Trauma devices, providing clinical expertise and training to surgeons and hospitals regarding the proper use of the company's trauma line. He is currently the Vice President at another orthopedics device company specializing in carbon fiber trauma and oncology products. In summary, this expert has sales, compliance and sales training experience, with a Law Enforcement, Collegiate Athletics, and a military academy background.

This expert earned his BS at Duke University, and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He has received $268,003 in funded support, and has been involved in the writing of 10 grant proposals for research in his field. He has authored 12 publications, and serves as a reviewer for several scientific journals, including the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. He is an active member of both the Orthopaedic Research Society, as well as the American Society for Engineering Educators. He currently serves as an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at a university in New Jersey.

This expert specializes in infection control. He earned his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and pursued a fellowship focused on diagnostic imaging at the Temple University School of Medicine. For two decades, he worked for a firm manufacturing automated endoscope reprocessors, serving as the Director of R&D and the Chief of Infection Control. He currently owns a consultancy focused on healthcare quality and safety; he is also a prolific writer on these issues.

This qualified expert earned his BS in physics from University of Washington and his MS in mathematics from University of Oregeon. He also completed a MS in applied physics from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology and his PhD in electrical engineering at Oregon Health and Science University. He subsequently entered an NIH-funded postgraduate fellowship in dermatology at the Oregon Health & Science University. After serving for a number of years as an associate professor in bioengineering and dermatology at the University of Missouri, he now directors the department of biomedical engineering at a private university in Pennsylvania.

This qualified expert has over 35 years of experience in biomedical engineering. He earned his BA in physics and mathematics from DePauw University and received his PhD in physics from Yale University. He is a member of multiple associations, including the American Association for Clinical Chemistry and the American Physical Society. He currently has 10 patents and has 19 patent applications. He served as an assistant professor and research associate in physics for the University of Virginia for 3 years. He was then a physicist for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a staff physicist for Measurex Corporation. He was also the vice president of engineering and advanced technology for Cytometrics and the technology innovation leader of R&D for Becton Dickinson. He has authored several scientific articles over the course of his career and received the Cytometrics Founders' Award for his work. Currently, this expert is the founder and principal consultant for an innovative business consultancy based in Pennsylvania.

This highly qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in medical device regulations. He received his BS in chemical engineering from Lowell Technological Institute and earned his MS in chemical engineering from the University of Iowa. He currently has 5 patents. Over the years, his work has included antimicrobial development and application, hydrophilic coating development and implementation, and over-the-counter and personal care product development. His former positions include research engineer for Eastman Kodak and GAF Corporation, project manager and laboratory supervisor for Biosearch Medical Products and Hydromer, and corporate manager of materials for Arrow International. Currently, this expert is the president of a medical device consulting company in Pennsylvania.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in the field of biomaterials and biomedical engineering. He earned an MS in mechanical engineering at the University of Palermo in Italy, an MS in biomedical engineering from Imperial College London, and his PhD in biomechanics and tissue engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in tissue engineering, biomechanics, and biomaterials at the University of Palermo. This expert is active in his field as a member of several organizations, including the Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society, the American Society for Mechanical Engineers, and the Society for Biomaterials. He is also highly involved in research, having authored numerous publications and spoken as an invited speaker at multiple conferences throughout his career. He also currently holds 13 patents. He has previously served as an R&D engineer in the biomedical robotics and EMC department at the University Campus Biomedico Rome, a biotechnology and bioengineering consultant for the Italian Ministry for Economic Development and Livanova, a post-doctoral researcher in tissue engineering and biomechanics at the University of Pittsburgh, and a research associate in tissue engineering at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, this expert is a research assistant professor of surgery and bioengineering at a distinguished university in Pennsylvania, as well as a biotechnology and bioengineering consultant for a university-affiliated startup.

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in the fields of cancer, biomedical research, pre-clinical animal research and ethics, and drug development, among others. After earning his BS from East Carolina University and his MS from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, this expert completed his PhD in genetics and molecular biology at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He also went on to complete his MBA in biosciences management at North Carolina State University. This expert is an active member of the American Association of Immunologists, the Society for Leukocyte Biology, and the American Association for Cancer Research. In addition to being extensively published, he is the current associate editor of Frontiers in Immunology and Frontiers in Microbiology. Further, this expert has been engaged in a variety of university program development and research operations leadership roles throughout his career. Among his former roles, he has served as a research analyst with the Center for Human Genetics at Duke University Medical Center, a research associate for microbiology and immunology at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and as an assistant professor of inflammatory diseases at Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. This expert currently maintains two assistant professorships at a public medical school in Virginia, in addition to his primary role as an associate professor of inflammatory diseases at a veterinary medicine education school.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience as an epidemiologist and nurse-midwife, with demonstrated experience in medical device safety including gynecologic surgical mesh, breast implants, hip replacement, cardiovascular and dermatologic devices, post-market surveillance, and pharmacoepidemiology. She received her BS in biology from the University of Illinois and a diploma in nursing from Evanston Hospital School of Nursing before earning her BS in nursing and her MS in perinatal nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She then went on to earn a post-masters certificate in midwifery from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her PhD in perinatal epidemiology from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. This expert is a certified nurse-midwife and a licensed registered nurse. She is active in her field as a member of several organizations, including the American Nurses Association, the American College of Nurse-Midwives, and the American Academy of Nursing. She is also highly involved in research, having authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and spoken at multiple scientific conferences throughout her career. For her work, she has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards. With over 15 years in academia, this expert has formerly served as an assistant professor of child, women and family health at the University of Maryland, and adjunct assistant professor in prevention and community health and an adjunct clinical associate professor of clinical management and leadership at George Washington University, and, most recently, as an adjunct associate professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Clinically, she has served as an maternal child health epidemiologist and a health sciences administrator for the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the CDC and has worked extensively with the FDA as an epidemiologist and branch chief for the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. Additionally, she served as the director of women's health, medical ethics and patient advocacy for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense. Currently, this expert is the owner and CEO of an epidemiology consulting group based in Maryland.