Endocarditis Expert Witnesses
Endocarditis expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on endocarditis. The endocarditis expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiovascular Disease, Critical Care Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, and Vascular Surgery.
Neil Doherty, MD
Citrus Valley Cardiology
Glendora, California
Cardiovascular Disease
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nuclear cardiology, pacemakers & defibrillators, cardiac catheterization, stents, endocarditis, stroke, chest pain, myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolus, aortic dissection, atrial fibrillation, anti-coagulation, platelet inhibitors, lipids, cholesterol, hypertension, ICDs, morbidity & mortality
Joseph B. Marzouk, MD, FIDSA
Infectious Disease Specialist
Oakland, California
Infectious Diseases
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Infections in all medical Specialties, Sepsis, HIV, AIDS, hepatitis, food poisoning, pneumonia, orthopedic infections, meningitis, surgical infections, wound infections, urinary tract infections, endocarditis, abdominal infections, abscess, septic arthritis, infection control
Clinical Infectious Disease Specialist in active practice; Extensive experience in medico-legal review for both plaintiffs and defense; Board Certified in Infectious Disease; HIV Specialist; Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at two Northern California Hospitals; Chief of Infectious Disease at Summit Medical Center. See CV for further details.
Julie E. Myers, RN, PHN, FNP-BC
Nurse and Nurse Practitioner in Infectious Disease
CaNPA Solutions
San Diego, California
Nurse, Nurse Practitioner
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Nurse Practitioner, Nurse, Internal Medicine, Hospital Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Cardiovascular Diseases, MRSA, MDRO, bacteremia, sepsis, endocarditis, fungal disease, UTI, pneumonia, orthopedic infections, hardware associated infections, wound infection, abdominal infection, epidural abscess
Actively working in the hospital setting focused on infectious diseases for the last eight years with a strong understanding of internal medicine and ICU medicine. Greater than 10 years experience as both a RN and nurse practitioner working both inpatient and outpatient with complex cardiovascular disease patients in pursuit of medical, interventional, and surgical care.
I am well versed in explaining what is happening in the body and can give understandable analogies to patients and their families. I can also help explain these processes to you as a medical record consultant and provide an opinion regarding causation of injury or death with comprehensive medical record analysis or as an expert witness.
Daniel Z. Uslan, MD, MBA
Los Angeles, California
Infectious Diseases
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Infection Control, Infection Prevention, Clostridium Difficile, Meningitis, Sepsis, Surgical Infection, Bacteria, Osteomyelitis, Pneumonia, Abdominal Infections, Endocarditis, Hospital Infections
Dr. Uslan is a board-certified infectious disease specialist and serves as chief of infection prevention at a major academic teaching hospital. Dr. Uslan has extensive experience with diagnosis, management, and treatment of a wide range of infectious diseases including pneumonia, urinary tract infections, meningitis, endocarditis, and osteomyelitis. He received his medical degree from the University of Southern California and completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in infectious diseases at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Uslan has a particular interest in hospital infections, infections due to multi-drug resistant organisms, prevention of infections/infection control, and appropriate antibiotic use.
Francis Herrbold, M.D.
Cardiac and aortic surgery.
Pensacola Beach, Florida
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery
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aortic dissection, aortic aneurysm, bicuspid aortic valve, aortic stenosis, coronary artery disease, carotid stenosis, lung cancer, mitral regurgitation, endocarditis, sternal wound infection, stroke, ischemia, peripheral arterial disease
20 years of experience in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery. I am Board Certified in General and Thoracic Surgery. I am well versed in complex cardiac operations including redo operations, valve surgery, aortic surgery (including aneurysm and dissections). General Thoracic experience includes thoracotomies, lobectomies, pneumonectomies, symptathectomies, decortications. Vascular experience includes carotid endarterectomy, carotid stunting, peripheral intervention, peripheral bypass, amputation, AAA repair. I have a bachelors degree in Chemistry from Marquette, a Masters in Cardiovascular Physiology, and and M.D. from the University of Florida. I graduated at the top of my General Surgery Residency class, receiving the Golden Scalpel award. My Cardiothoracic and Vascular experience as a Fellow at the University of Florida was intensive with one of the highest aortic surgery volumes in the country. My practice experience in Albany, GA was diverse as there were no V...
Francis Herrbold, M.D.
Cardiac and aortic surgery.
Georgia
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery
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aortic dissection, aortic aneurysm, bicuspid aortic valve, aortic stenosis, coronary artery disease, carotid stenosis, lung cancer, mitral regurgitation, endocarditis, sternal wound infection, stroke, ischemia, peripheral arterial disease
20 years of experience in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery. I am Board Certified in General and Thoracic Surgery. I am well versed in complex cardiac operations including redo operations, valve surgery, aortic surgery (including aneurysm and dissections). General Thoracic experience includes thoracotomies, lobectomies, pneumonectomies, symptathectomies, decortications. Vascular experience includes carotid endarterectomy, carotid stunting, peripheral intervention, peripheral bypass, amputation, AAA repair. I have a bachelors degree in Chemistry from Marquette, a Masters in Cardiovascular Physiology, and and M.D. from the University of Florida. I graduated at the top of my General Surgery Residency class, receiving the Golden Scalpel award. My Cardiothoracic and Vascular experience as a Fellow at the University of Florida was intensive with one of the highest aortic surgery volumes in the country. My practice experience in Albany, GA was diverse as there were no V...
Ira A Gurland, MD
East Brunswick, New Jersey
Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine
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COVID 19, HIV, AIDS, surgical infections, necrotizing fasciitis, prosthetic joint infection, diabetic foot infection, bacteremia, endocarditis, urinary tract infection, prostatitis, cellulitis, wound, vaccine, Lyme disease, antibiotics, fungal infections, bacterial infections, travel medicine
I am a board certified infectious diseases physician and internist in active clinical practice in central New Jersey for 24 years. I have had the privilege of being retained for independent medical evaluations in a variety of cases. The goals of these examinations have included evaluating the merits of a case for trial, evaluating insurer’s liability, workman’s compensation and medical malpractice.
Diagnoses involved in these matters have included COVID-19 infection, diabetic foot infection leading to limb loss, surgical site infections, necrotizing fasciitis, cellulitis, food born infections, HIV and many others. I have the ability to breakdown complex medical jargon and make it understandable. I am willing to provide redacted reports.
Richard Snepar, MD, FACP, FIDSA
East Brunswick, New Jersey
Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine
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COVID-19, sepsis, endocarditis, bacteremia, bacterial infections, virus, MRSA, urinary tract infections, surgical infections, sexually transmitted infections, necrotizing fasciitis, osteomyelitis, prosthetic joint infections, spine infections, device-related infections, nursing home infections
I am a board-certified infectious disease physician and internist. I am active in a busy clinical practice in New Jersey. I am an attending at three hospitals and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. I have been doing expert medical reviews for over 10 years. I am comfortable evaluating the merits of a case both for plaintiff and defense. I am comfortable with deposition and trial testimony. Clinically I consult and manage infectious diseases in outpatients and hospitalized patients including the emergency room and ICU. I also consult and manage patients in long-term care facilities and nursing homes.
These reviews have included but are not limited to: COVID-19, sepsis, septic shock, endocarditis, bacteremia, bacterial infections including MRSA, diabetic foot infections, urinary tract infections, surgical infections and complications of surgery, viral infections, necrotizing fasciitis, osteomyelitis, spine infections, prostheti...
Jessica Blum, NP
Cortlandt Manor, New York
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Critical Care Medicine
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Heart transplant Coordinator, lung transplant, robotic surgery, TAVR, ECMO, LVADs, CABG, Valvular disease, endocarditis, dissections, discharge Nurse practitioner, thoracic nurse practitioner, Cardiothoracic NP, Cardiothoracic Nurse practitioner
I have been an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner for 10 years, I received my Masters degree from New York University in 2008. I started my career in nursing in 2005, when I worked in a Trauma Level One emergency room in New York City. Since graduating with my masters I have predominantly worked as a Cardiothoracic ICU Nurse Practitioner. I have managed patients both in the hospital and outpatient setting, specifically as a Heart Transplant Coordinator. I am trained to manage patients throughout there hospital course, pre/post surgery and the vast complications that arise. Spending time in the intensive care unit, step-down unit, consult service and discharge planning. I am also trained in ECMO/mechanical support management and have my FCCS and ACLS certifications.
I also am part time faculty at Pace University where I am developing there Acute Care NP program and adjunct clinical faculty at New York University.
David J Miller, MD, PhD
Abrams, Wisconsin
Infectious Diseases
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defendant, meningitis, tick, telemedicine, plaintiff, pneumonia, endocarditis, bacteremia, resistance, osteomyelitis, spine, transplant, surgical
I am a practicing infectious diseases physician in Wisconsin with nearly 25 years of clinical inpatient and outpatient experience in both academic and hospital-based private medical systems, and I have 10 years of experience as an expert witness in infectious disease-related medical-legal cases for both plaintiffs and defendants. During my medical career, I have diagnosed and treated thousands of patients with a wide array of infections, including bacteremia, endocarditis, meningitis and encephalitis, osteomyelitis and spinal infections, surgical site infections, pneumonia, tick-borne infections, HIV, transplant-related complications such as fungal infections, mycobacterial infections including tuberculosis, and infectious due to multi drug-resistant organisms such as methicillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA), carbapenem-resistant enterobacterales (CRE), and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE). I am currently licensed in both Wisconsin and Michigan and I am board certified in both...