Pain Management Expert Witnesses in Illinois

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 15 years of experience as an anesthesiologist specializing in interventional pain management. Much of her work focuses on spine-related pain issues such as low back pain, neck pain, pain after failed spine surgeries, as well as opioids and the opioid epidemic. She received her BS in molecular and cell biology from UC Berkeley before earning her MD from Saba University in the Caribbean. She subsequently completed an internal medicine internship and anesthesiology residency at the University of Missouri before completing a quad-institution pain medicine fellowship program through Weill-Cornell New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Hospital for Special Surgery, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Columbia Medical Center. This expert is board-certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine. She is active in her field as a member of the International Spine Interventional Society, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. She has formerly served as an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Missouri, a pain management physician at Saint Luke's Hospital, and an interventional pain management physician at Mosaic Life Care. Currently, this expert serves as an interventional pain management physician for a Missouri health system.

This highly-qualified expert has over 30 years of experience as a certified registered nurse anesthetist. He earned his BS in nursing from South Dakota State University before completing his certification in nurse anesthesia at Mayo Medical Center. He later earned his MBA from the University of Iowa. He is a licensed registered nurse and a licensed advanced registered nurse practitioner. This expert is very active in his field as a member of several professional societies including the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists and the Iowa Association of Nurse Anesthetists. In addition, this expert has been invited to give clinical lectures on over 50 occasions. Formerly, this expert held several roles throughout his career including as a registered nurse in the ICU at Saint Mary’s Hospital before he became certified in nurse anesthesia. He then became a staff CRNA at Mayo Medical Center- St. Mary’s Hospital, Veterans Memorial Hospital, and Decatur County Hospital. He was also the former director of CRNAs at the Regional Medical Center of Northeast Iowa. This expert is currently the president and co-owner at an anesthesia services company in Iowa.

This qualified expert has over 10 years of experience in anesthesiology, pain management, and regenerative medicine. He earned his BS in chemistry from Case Western Reserve University and his MD from Johns Hopkins University. He subsequently completed an internal medicine internship at the University of Cincinnati, an anesthesiology residency at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a pain management fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Institute. This expert is board certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine, and is active in his field as a frequent author of scientific articles and as a member of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain and the Interventional Orthopedics Foundation. Since 2010, this expert has served as the medical director of a pain management practice in Kentucky.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 10 years of experience in anesthesiology. He received his MD from Indiana University and completed his residency in Anesthesiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is board certified in anesthesiology and is a licensed physician in Indiana. This expert has published 5 peer-reviewed journal articles and is a member of a number of organizations including the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Indiana Society of Anesthesiologists and the Indiana State Medical Association. Currently, he is an assistant professor of clinical anesthesiology at a midwest university. Additionally, he is the director of regional anesthesia service and the co-director of acute pain service at the same midwest university, and is an attending anesthesiologist at a midwest teaching hospital.