Weakness Expert Witnesses

Emergency Medicine, Geriatrics - Geriatric Emergency Medicine, Older adults, Falls, Delirium, Trauma, Infections, Capacity, Sepsis, Dementia, Pain management, End of life care, Wound Care, Syncope, Functional decline, Pneumonia, Atrial fibrillation, Weakness, Urinary tract infection, Polypharmacy

I am a triple boarded emergency medicine physician, internist and geriatrician with extensive expertise in providing patient care at the bedside as well as administrative, educational, research and leadership experience in the academic emergency medicine and geriatric emergency medicine fields. I serve as an associate clinical director and director of geriatric emergency medicine of a busy, urban, Department of Emergency Medicine and am a member of the internal peer review committee. In these roles, I have had the opportunity to lead numerous clinical case reviews with an eye toward safety and quality improvement. With dual academic appointments as Assistant Professor of both Emergency Medicine and Medicine, I participate in the education of a wide variety of health sciences trainees including medical students, resident physicians and fellows. As such, I have lectured locally, regional and nationally on matters in general emergency medicine and geriatric emergency medicine with...

Urgent Care Medicine, Occupational Medicine - Headache, Chest pain, Pulmonary embolism, Acute abdomen, Appendicitis, Retained foreign body, Missed tendon laceration, Sepsis, Abnormal vital signs, Cellulitis, Tachycardia, Missed fracture, Fever, Pneumonia, Back pain, Shortness of breath, GERD, Blood in stools, Dizziness, Weakness

Urgent care is all I do. I have committed my career to urgent care with all its clinical and operational aspects for the past 16 years. After moving from a primary care background to urgent care in 2008, I have accumulated extensive experience from working clinically in urgent care centers, management and oversight of over 100 urgent care clinicians (physicians, PAs, NPs), to developing urgent care specific education, protocols and risk reduction programs. I am privileged to serve as President and CMO of my group with 19 centers, was elected as the President of the Urgent Care Association from 2021-2022 and served on the Board of the College of Urgent Care Medicine. With this breadth of experience touching all aspects of urgent care, I am qualified and have provided insightful and industry respected opinions and malpractice reviews on urgent care standards. Practicing urgent care medicine and occupational medicine in our facilities has allowed me to manage the common presenti...