Missouri Expert Witnesses

This art appraisal expert has over 30 years experience in the fine arts. She earned her BA in art history with a concentration in modern and contemporary art from Texas Christian University and her MA in art history from California State University at Los Angeles. She is a certified appraiser and active in her field as a member of the Appraisers Association of America. Formerly, she served in a variety of museum-based roles including as the chief registrar at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the exhibitions manager and registrar at the California Center for the Arts, the executive director and the chief curator of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, and the director and CEO at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Currently, this expert serves as a principal and proprietor for both a Missouri-based fine art appraisal consultancy and a national fine art appraisal consultancy.

This board certified plastic surgeon has been practicing for over 10 years. He is the Director of Breast and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the Director of the breast plastic surgery fellowship at his current institution, and has given nationally invited lectures on the topic. Furthermore, he is widely published in the plastic surgery space with numerous peer-reviewed journal articles in highly regarded medical journals. He frequently performs breast plastic surgery.

This expert has been practicing nuclear medicine and using radiologic technology for over 30 years. Awarded the honor of Fellow of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, he is also a member of a multitude of other professional scientific societies. He has been an invited presenter at over 50 local, regional, and national conferences and sits on the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology. This expert currently serves as an Associate Professor of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapeutics at a major medical university, as well as the Administrative Chair of the same department.

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 expert has been working in the retail automotive industry for over 40 years. He has been a contributing monthly columnist to an automotive dealer publication for nearly 20 years, while he is the co-author and co-presenter of an automotive management course. He has extensive hands-on experience in dealership sales, development, operations, and management, and he has been an invited speaker before the Brazil Auto Dealer Association, the South Africa Auto Dealer Association, the JD Power Super Roundtable, and multiple National Automobile Dealers Association meetings and events. A former General Manager at Superior Automotive Group, this expert managed a staff of 300 employees; he had complete management responsibilities of Superior Buick-Cadillac retail operations as well as management oversight of Nissan, Hyundai, Ford, Lexus, 2 used vehicle operations, and a collision center. Currently, this expert is the President and Principal of his own retail automotive industry consulting firm, providing professional management expertise and analytical services.

This double board-certified expert has over 30 years of experience in preventive medicine, specifically aerospace and occupational medicine. He received a M.D. from the University of Kansas and finished a fellowship in Space Medicine at NASA and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. A Senior FAA Medical Examiner, he has been elected as a Fellow to the American College of Preventive Medicine, the Aerospace Medical Association, and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He is currently very active in academic and clinical positions. He serves as a Medical Consultant to various companies including a major airline. He holds professorships at three different medical universities where he teaches preventive medicine and also teaches aerospace medicine at a military school.

This qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in planing and developing mining operations. He holds a B.S. in Mining Engineering from West Virginia University and is certified as a Safety and MHSA Instructor. Registered as a Professional Engineer in 25 states, he has worked on projects across the U.S. including projects in South America and Kuwait. Altogether, his experience amounts to nearly $2 billion dollars worth of construction projects. He currently works as Senior Consultant at an engineering consulting firm where he also handles safety and MSHA training.

This board certified expert has been practicing for nearly 30 years. Widely published, he sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, the Egyptian Journal of Nuclear Medicine, and Frontiers in Cancer Imaging and Diagnosis. This expert has also been an invited lecturer at continuing medical education programs at the regional, national, and international levels. He currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Radiology and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Imaging and Radiation Therapeutics at a major medical university. He is also the Director of the Division of Nuclear medicine as well as PET services at his institution's hospital affiliate.

This board certified family medicine practitioner earned his BA and MD from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He belongs to a number of prestigious medical societies, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Association of Medical Review Officers, and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. This expert is also a supremely experienced medical examiner, having performed more than 30,000 DOT exams since 2009. He is currently a physician and medical director in private practice servicing a nationwide trucking company.

This expert has been practicing for over 25 years. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine,A.B.I.M., Emergency Medicine. A.B.P.S. and Neurocritical Care, U.C.N.S. He has given numerous presentations and lectures, and has also volunteered his services on a mission to Costa Rica. He has been on many committees, and has worked with pharmaceutical and biomedical companies.

This double board certified expert has been practicing for nearly 20 years. Fellowship trained in Pediatric Neurosurgery, he has been awarded the honor of Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. This expert has been listed to The Best Doctors in America multiple times, while he has appeared in America's Top Surgeons, Who's Who in America, as well as Who's Who in Medical Sciences Education. Widely published, he has served as an Invited Reviewer for many professional medical journals, including the "Journal of Pediatrics", "Neurosurgery", and the "Journal of Neurosurgery". Currently, this expert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery as well as the Department of Pediatrics at a major children's hospital, where he is also the Director of both the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Program and the Pediatric Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Program.

This highly qualified Construction Equipment Engineering and safety expert received certification in Industrial management from Aurora University. He is a certified Safety Professional, a well versed OSHA professional, and a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Society of Safety Engineers and the System Safety Society. This expert is an authority in his field with several publications and multiple invitations to lecture as a guest speaker. He is currently Chairman of a major safety institute and a Safety Consultant at a private consulting company.