Oregon Expert Witnesses

This qualified expert has nearly 10 years of experience in internal medicine. She received her BA in rhetoric and molecular/cell biology from UC Berkeley and earned her MD from the University of Chicago. She completed two residencies and two fellowships: an internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, a diagnostic radiology residency at Oregon Health and Science University, a pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at Vanderbilt University, and a cardiothoracic radiology fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University. This expert is currently board-certified in internal medicine with a subspecialty in pulmonary disease. She is active in her field as a member of several societies, including the American College of Radiology and the American Roentgen Ray Society. She is also involved in research, having authored numerous publications. Her former positions include critical care nocturnist for Skyline Medical Center and medical director of inpatient respiratory therapy at Kaiser Permanente's Westside Medical Center. Current, this expert serves as an assistant professor of cardiothoracic imaging at a medical school in Oregon.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in automated external defibrillator (AED) program design and compliance. He earned his BS in public affairs from the University of Oregon and his JD from the Lewis & Clark Northwestern School of Law. He is a member of the Oregon State Bar and an advisory board member of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation and the National Center for Early Defibrillation. He has been the founder of several firms, including Lazar Jensen Geobel, Fios, Inc., and AED Risk Insights, Inc. Currently, this expert is the founder and president of an AED program compliance company that develops and publishes national AED program design guidelines that describe industry standards for AED programs and the AED Law Center.

This board-certified radiation oncology expert is skilled at delivering all types of radiation therapy, including stereotactic radiation, brachytherapy, proton therapy, and radionuclides. He earned his BS in chemistry and biology from Stanford University, his PhD in chemistry from UC Berkeley, and his MD from Johns Hopkins University. He also completed an internal medicine internship at the University of Maryland and both a residency and clinical fellowship in radiation oncology through the Harvard University Radiation Oncology Program. This expert has extensive research experience, having served as a clinical researcher in the department of radiation oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and as a research fellow in the departments of radiology and systems biology at Harvard Medical School. He has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications and has authored multiple scientific textbooks. Currently, this expert serves as an assistant professor of radiation medicine at a university in Oregon, having formerly served as a radiation oncologist and the medical director of Compass Oncology, also based in Oregon.

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 is a board-certified surgeon with a clinical fellowship in burn care. He is the director of a regional burn center and he has previously served as the chair for the department of surgery. In addition, he has published articles in the Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation.

This double board certified nurse practitioner has been practicing for over a decade in acute and critical care. A member of many professional nursing societies, including the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, this expert is also a member of the ANCC Board Examination Acute Care Content Expert Panel and a reviewer for the journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Not only is this expert currently an Assistant Professor of both Nursing and Anesthesiology at a major medical university, but he is also the Director of the ACNP program at the same institution.

This expert is well versed in OSHA compliance, processes, and procedures, as well as all safety initiatives, for forest product plants. He is the former manager of Texas Port Recycling, where he was responsible for facility safety and environmental/production performance. He managed 50 employees, including training in OSHA compliance and inspecting plant materials. He is currently the safety coordinator for a plywood plant where he manages safety initiatives and OSHA compliance.

This expert is board certified in Medical Toxicology, Addiction Medicine, and Preventive Medicine. He has over 15 years of experience in academia, conducting research, teaching, and publishing peer-reviewed articles in occupational and environmental toxicology. His clinical practice is specialized in addiction medicine, and he provides patient care in Oregon. This expert has provided consulting and expert witness services for over 15 years, in a diverse range of toxicology-related matters. Areas of specific expertise include addiction medicine, postmortem toxicology, overdose and adverse effects from drugs of abuse (alcohol, opioids, opiates, stimulants, benzodiazepines), and health effects from human exposure to mold, mycotoxins, pesticides, metals, irritant gases and carbon monoxide.

This expert earned a doctorate in Economics from the University of Arizona. His career in forensic economics, litigation support, economic analysis and consulting spans more than 15 years. In that time, he has produced hundreds of economic reports, has evaluated opposing experts' reports, and has provided expert testimony in both Federal and state courts. This expert also co-authored the book about trucking industry forensic econmics. Additionally, this expert develops econometric models, with applications in business analysis and forecasting and statistical analysis using SAS software.

This expert's research career has been focused in the area of drug safety. As a clinical epidemiologist and pharmacologist, he uses large administrative databases in Canada and the United States as the main data source for his research. In the last ten years he has made significant contributions to this area quantifying rare drug adverse events with popular prescription drugs. His research has been used by the FDA, Health Canada and European Medicines Agency

This expert is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Portland, Oregon and is affiliated with a top university hospital. She received her medical degree from University of Belgrade and had continued training at Yale, University of Arizona, and a number of prestigious international universities. She has advanced training in treating all cancers of the female reproductive organs (gynecologic cancers). Her research interest in how cancer develops in the body's cells has given her a deep understanding in the area. She continues to work on applying the latest scientific discoveries to patient care.

This recognized expert in medical toxicology earned his medical doctorate in New York state, thereafter completing a residency in internal medicine at the University of California - Davis. He is board certified in both medical toxicology and emergency medicine and has been widely published in his field. He currently divides his time between serving as a full professor of toxicology at one of the West Coast's best schools of medicine and as the medical director of a regional poison control system.