Medical Legal Consulting Expert Witnesses

This highly qualified Wound Care specialist received his medical degree from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He went on to complete a Residency in General Surgery. This expert is board certified in Wound Care by the American Board of Wound Management. He is a member of several highly regarded professional organizations including the American Board of Wound Management and the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care. He is currently an independent contractor for a Wound Care group with whom he enjoys physician privileges at over 20 long term care facilities. Over the past 5 plus years, he has documented over 40,000 patient encounters in the field of wound care. In addition to the treatment of wounds, he is experienced in the standards of care in the long term care setting, offloading for prevention of wounds and the relationship between nursing and physicians in regards to patients with wounds.

This expert has extensive credentials and training in nursing, nurse life care planning, and medicare consulting. She belongs to the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, the American Association of Nurse Life Care Planners, and the National Association of Medicare Set-Aside Professionals. She has held numerous nursing positions throughout the mid-west and is currently a nurse life care planner and consultant at a private firm in Indiana.

This expert is a certified legal nurse consultant and a registered nurse. She has has many positions as a nurse and now works as a life planner and nurse consultant at three different practices. She is certified as a life care planner and in life accident and health insurance.

Healthcare consulting and management executive with thirty-six years of progressively responsible experience in assisting community hospitals, multi-hospital systems, academic medical and research centers, nursing homes and assisted living facilities, managed care organizations and large physician entities achieve strategic business objectives. Extensive involvement in complex healthcare-related litigation pertaining to identification of breach of standards of care in the operation of hospitals, nursing homes and ambulatory care environments, negligent hiring, physician credentialing in both hospital and managed care organizations, interpretation of JCAHO standards, hospital and medical staff bylaws, third party billing disputes, administrative and billing compliance, managed care contracting, economic analysis related to enterprise value and fair market value compensation analyses. Consistent proven ability to conceptualize, analyze and implement effective approaches and solutions to enhance strategic position, operational effectiveness and financial results of healthcare organizations. Regional and national consulting experience includes market planning, product line initiatives, operations improvement, business valuations, medical staff development, hospital-physician joint ventures, healthcare system reorganization, group practice formation, third party contract review and negotiation, physician and hospital business office issues.

This expert Life Care Planner obtained her AS in Liberal Arts & Sciences and her ADN from Chaffey College and her BSN from Jacksonville University. She completed her training in Life Care Planning at Kelynco in Utah and is a Certified Life Care Planner, Legal Nurse Consultant, Certified Nurse Life Care Planner, and a Registered Nurse. She has 1 Publication and is currently a full time Life Care Planner and part time Educator in Nursing.

This qualified expert earned her ADN from Sincalir Community College and is certified in ACLS, PALS, and BLS. She is a licensed registered nurse in Tennessee and is certified as a professional legal nurse consultant by the National Center for Legal Nurse Consultants. This expert has previously served as a registered nurse house float at Southern Hills Medical Center and as a clinical coordinator for Crossroads Surgery Center. She currently is an emergency room registered nurse at a comprehensive Tennessee medical center.

This highly qualified expert has over 10 years of clinical experience as a thoracic surgeon specializing in thoracic oncology and minimally invasive thoracic and foregut surgery. He earned both his BS and MS at the University of Manitoba, later receiving his MD at the University of Toronto. He went on to complete his medical training with a residency in general surgery from the University of Manitoba and a double fellowship in thoracic surgery and minimally invasive thoracic and foregut surgery from the University of British Columbia and Swedish Medical Center in Washington respectively. He is an active member in dozens of committees and medical organizations including the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Surgery, an attending thoracic surgeon and the Program Director of the Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Program at a medical school in Manitoba and previously held similar roles at Dalhousie University. He also serves on the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Manitoba Inquiry Committee, and has provided expert witness testimony in medicolegal cases and hospital critical incident reviews.

This highly-qualified expert has over 20 years of experience as a hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis nurse. She is a licensed registered nurse in South Carolina, is certified by DaVita as a hemodialysis educator and peritoneal dialysis preceptor, and holds a certification in healthcare effectiveness data and information set. Her work has focused on standard of care, review and analysis of medical records, dialysis quality management, dialysis vascular access, dialysis education, and fistula, graft, CVC, and tunneled peritoneal dialysis catheter assessment and evaluation. This expert has formerly served as a renal nurse case manager for the Renal Care Network, quality management coordinator for DaVita Dialysis, quality manager at the Union County Dialysis Center, and a home program facility administrator and inpatient dialysis clinical coordinator at two community hospitals with DaVita. She also worked with Fresenius Medical Care as an inpatient acute hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis nurse at Hamilton Medical Center and McLeod Health. Currently, this expert is a medical record reviewer for a healthcare management and technology firm.

This highly qualified expert has over 20 years of experience as a bioethical consultant. He earned his BA in English literature from Temple University, his JD from Pepperdine University, and his MPH in health law, bioethics, and human rights from Boston University. This expert practiced medical malpractice law on both the patient and physician sides for over 30 years before retiring. He has published over 40 times on the topic of medical ethics and frequently lectures at medical centers and hospitals in southern California. He has extensive experience with ethics committees, end-of-life decision making, and the responsibilities of physicians and patients. Currently, he is an independent bioethical consultant, specializing in clinical bioethics.

This licensed registered nurse has over 25 years of experience in nursing, including the fields of medical-surgical, hospice, and community health. She earned her AS from Saint Luke's School of Nursing and her BS in nursing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Along with being licensed in Missouri and Kansas as a registered nurse, she is also a certified nurse life care planner and a member of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. Formerly, she has held a number of nursing positions, including a community and employee health nurse at Clay County Public Health Center, a medical-surgical bedside care nurse at the Kansas City VA Medical Center, and a general medical-surgical nurse for Favorite Healthcare Staffing Services. She has also served as a nurse analyst for Shook, Hardy, and Bacon Lawfirm. Currently, she is a special health care needs service coordinator for a state department of health and senior services as well as a legal nurse consultant and nurse life care planner for a nursing consultancy in Missouri.

This licensed registered nurse has been in his field for over 27 years. He earned his AS in nursing from Virginia Appalachian College and is a certified legal nurse consultant. He is also certified in basic life support and advanced cardiac life support. He began his career as an emergency room nurse for Buchanan General Hospital before transitioning to working in the operating room as a circulating nurse and then a nurse manager. He then went on to serve as an orthopedic nurse coordinator for 17 years and as a risk specialist both at South Lake Hospital. This expert currently works as a quality and risk manager at a physician group in Virginia.

This qualified expert has decades of experience in legal and forensic nursing. She earned her BS in nursing from New York University and is a licensed registered nurse. She is an active member of professional organizations including the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, the International Association of Forensic Nurses, and the American College of Forensic Examiners International. Formerly, she served as a staff nurse in the medical/surgical ICU at The Genesee Hospital, and as a staff nurse in the neonatal ICU, labor and delivery department, as well as a special project nurse of infectious disease research, all at Strong Memorial Hospital. More recently, she served as a legal nurse consultant at Faraci, Lange, Johns & Schwarz and as owner and president at Egan Consultants of NYS. Currently, this expert is the owner and president, a legal nurse consultant, and forensic nurse at a legal and forensic nursing consultancy in New York.

This highly-qualified expert has over 25 years of experience with emergency nursing and forensic nursing. She completed her nurse training at Foothills Hospital School of Nursing in Calgary and later earned her BS in criminal justice at Kaplan University. She is a registered nurse and a certified forensic nurse and forensic consultant. She is active in her field as a member of the American College of Forensic Examiners and the Academy of Forensic Nursing. She spent many years as a staff nurse and charge nurse in the emergency room at several hospitals including Midland Memorial Hospital, Odessa Regional Hospital, and Scenic Mountain Medical Center. She has also formerly served as a legal nurse consultant at OEM Advisor LLC and Davies, McFarland & Carroll, P.C. This expert currently serves as a legal nurse consultant at medico-legal consulting company in Florida.

This expert has 25 years of experience in his field. He received his ASN from Polk Community College and is a certified CCRN. He has practiced in all disciplines of critical care and is active in his field as a member of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Formerly, he worked at Winter Haven Hospital in a variety of roles including as a registered nurse in the cardiovascular intensive care unit, and as the unit manager of both the medical and cardiovascular intensive care units. Currently, he serves as a registered nurse at a health system in Florida.

This expert is certified as a critical care nurse. She is a past-member of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants and current with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses since 2001. She is a former ICU Manager at St. Joseph Hospital in California, and has previously taught ICU/CCU and PCU nursing to new nurses and nursing students. Currently, this expert is a Critical Care Educator and an ICU/CCU Charge Nurse.

This expert has been a practicing nurse for nearly 20 years. A licensed registered nurse, she received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Kansas and her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Missouri. This expert has extensive experience in quality control and ensuring proper standards and protocols are being followed and met. A Risk Management Consultant for Health Cap/HCRMS, she conduced training workshops and consultation for long-term care facility staff in quality insurance and improvement, risk management, safety management, risk mitigation, and best practices. As a Quality Educator with Primaris, she worked with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as part of the Quality Improvement Organization for the state of Missouri, educating, consulting, and providing resource materials to skilled nursing staff to promote improvement in resident care. Currently a Clinical Educator and Consultant for a major university, she continues to work with Quality Improvement of Missouri and provides educational presentations throughout the state for long term care facilities, the Missouri League of Nursing, and various hospitals, targeting specific audiences and quality of care issues. This expert is also an independent Nurse Consultant and is experienced in reviewing legal cases as an expert witness, analyzing medical malpractice files, and analyzing standard of care, causation, and damage issues.

This qualified nursing expert has been working in the OR for over 35 years with the last 23 spent as a Nurse Manager. Her hospital is an award winning 806-bed teaching hospital that delivers advanced care. She is intimately familiar with the standard of care regarding surgical counts. She is a Certified Nurse in the O.R.

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 highly qualified expert has 30+ years experience in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He is board certified in Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care and Internal Medicine. He received his MD at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London and continued his medical training within the United States at Mount Sinai Hospital and Columbia University (Department of Medicine). He has served a claims adviser and expert witness both for defense and plaintiff in local and national cases regarding Medical Malpractice, Product Liability and Workers Compensation. He has 50+ publications and conducted extensive research in acute and chronic lung diseases. He has been awarded NY Times Magazine Super Doctors in 2013 and New York Magazine Best Doctors in NY three times and Castle Connolly Top Doctors N.Y. for 13 consecutive years. He is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of Respiratory Care for one of the top hospitals in the New York City area.

This expert is triple-board certified in forensic psychiatry, psychiatry, and brain injury medicine, ABPN. He has been retained in cases for plaintiff and defense. Cases include brain injury and neuropsychiatric issues (competitive sports, personal injury), criminal competency (homicide, criminal and military courts), medical malpractice (clinic, hospital, and treaters), violence assessment (armed security and FFD), sexual assault and the use of drugs (DFSA), mass tort (psychiatric damages associated with oil spill), psychiatric factors in capital crime (homicide), and, in all cases, damages. In clinical practice, this physician treats patients at TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation and Research hospital working with those with psychiatric, brain injury, brain disease, and spinal cord injuries. He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry of a major medical school. This physician serves as an appointed member of the Texas Governor’s Advisory Committee to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments. He conducts psychiatric medical assessments and IMEs, including a thorough review of medical and legal records to form well-reasoned findings and opinions. He is experienced in giving testimony. He serves as a private consultant to attorneys as a non-disclosed expert. This physician holds further certification as a Medical Review Officer with expertise in Drug and Alcohol testing and toxicology. He also holds an FDA Buprenorphine Waiver to treat Opioid Use Disorders.