Office Anesthesia Expert Witnesses
Office anesthesia 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 office anesthesia. The office anesthesia expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Anesthesiology, Oral Surgery, Pain Management - Medicine, and Plastic Surgery.
Ruchir Gupta, MD
Mountain View Headache and Spine Institute
PHoenix, Arizona
Anesthesiology, Pain Management - Medicine
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Anesthesia, Chronic Pain Management, Nerve Blocks, Airway/Difficult Airway, Sedation/ Propofol (Diprivan), Sedation by non-anesthesiologist practitioner, Life Care Planning, Ambulatory Anesthesia, Office Anesthesia, CPR, Central Lines, Trauma Anesthesiology, Critical Care Surgery
Double Board Certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine by the ABA and in full clinical practice. He has worked as part of the Quality Assurance (QA) committee where he reviewed hundreds of charts and offered his opinion on the anesthetic care of various patients. He is also an author of 2 anesthesia books and over a dozen book chapters and was recently awarded a grant to study the effects of a new pharmaceutical drug on airway pressures. He is also the Section Editor for the Perioperative Medicine Journal.
Dr. Gupta has over 8 years of experience reviewing records and has been trained by SEAK as an expert medical witness. Dr. Gupta enjoys teaching, lecturing, and writing about anesthesia. He is a talented debater and lecturer and has given national presentations in the field of Anesthesiology. He is an expert in all areas of anesthesia including patient safety, perioperative processes, surgical positioning, orthopedic anesthesia, same day surgery, obstetric, trauma, pedia...
Armond Kotikian, DDS, MD, FACS
Pacific Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Dental Implant Center, Facial Trauma
Glendale, California
Oral Surgery, Plastic Surgery
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Oral Surgery, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Wisdom teeth, extractions, tooth extract, teeth, dental implants, dental implant, office anesthesia, sinus lift, bone graft, IV sedation, oral tumors, TMJ, TMD, infections of the oral surgery region, orthognathic surgery, facial trauma, jaw fracture
Dr. Kotikian is a dual degree(he completed both dental school and medical school) Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon with extensive experience as an expert witness in the field of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Dentistry. He has been retained on over 170 cases as an expert, has given depos on over 70 cases & testified at court over the past stwelve years. He attended dental school at UCLA, then he did a one year Hospital Dentistry Residency at the Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital where he dealt with medically complex patients. Following his one year residency at the Long Beach VA he moved to Michigan where he completed his medical degree at Wayne State School of Medicine in Detroit, MI, did two years of general surgery and completed his Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dr. Kotikian is a board certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon who specializes in oral and maxillofacial trauma, facial trauma(all facial fractures and la...
Ruchir Gupta, MD
Mountain View Headache and Spine Institute
New Jersey
Anesthesiology, Pain Management - Medicine
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Anesthesia, Chronic Pain Management, Nerve Blocks, Airway/Difficult Airway, Sedation/ Propofol (Diprivan), Sedation by non-anesthesiologist practitioner, Life Care Planning, Ambulatory Anesthesia, Office Anesthesia, CPR, Central Lines, Trauma Anesthesiology, Critical Care Surgery
Double Board Certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine by the ABA and in full clinical practice. He has worked as part of the Quality Assurance (QA) committee where he reviewed hundreds of charts and offered his opinion on the anesthetic care of various patients. He is also an author of 2 anesthesia books and over a dozen book chapters and was recently awarded a grant to study the effects of a new pharmaceutical drug on airway pressures. He is also the Section Editor for the Perioperative Medicine Journal.
Dr. Gupta has over 8 years of experience reviewing records and has been trained by SEAK as an expert medical witness. Dr. Gupta enjoys teaching, lecturing, and writing about anesthesia. He is a talented debater and lecturer and has given national presentations in the field of Anesthesiology. He is an expert in all areas of anesthesia including patient safety, perioperative processes, surgical positioning, orthopedic anesthesia, same day surgery, obstetric, trauma, pedia...
Steven Vukas, DMD, MD
Steven Vukas, LLC
Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
Oral Surgery
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Surgical extractions, minor and complex Intraoral Bone Grafting and Soft Tissue Grafting for implant reconstruction of the oral cavity, Dental implant reconstruction of the oral cavity, Office Anesthesia, Oral Infections
Board certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon with twenty-two years of private practice experience, Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery with faculty positions in the Implant Center and Dental Anesthesia Department at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, teaching dental students and residents of multiple specialties, expert witness experience available upon request.
Private practice concentrations included:
1. Surgical extraction of teeth, dentoalveolar surgery and preprosthetic surgery
2. Bone grafting, Soft tissue grafting and preprothetic surgery, complex and minor, with dental implant reconstruction of the oral cavity
3. Multiple in office anesthesia techniques
4. Diagnosis and treatment of oral infections and associated structures
CV available upon request.