Sleep Expert Witnesses

Sleep 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 sleep. The sleep expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Brain Injury Medicine, Neurology, Neurophysiology, Pain Management - Medicine, Pediatric Neurology, Physical Medicine & Rehab, Psychiatry, and Sleep Medicine.

Steven H Spillers, MD Colorado Center for Neuroscience

Colorado Springs, Colorado
Neurology, Neurophysiology - Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring, EEG, Epilepsy, Seizures, Clinical Neurophysiology, Evoked Potentials, Sleep, ICU-EEG, Video-EEG for Epilepsy, Stroke
Board Certified in Clinical Neurophysiology (ABCN). Licensed in 27 States. 20+ Years in practice, 10+ years Intraoperative Neuro-Monitoring (IONM) of spine, brain, and carotid surgery. EEG, ICU-EEG, Video-EEG monitoring for Epilepsy, Evoked Potentials, Sleep

Marissa R McCarthy, MD RED Medical Legal

Tampa, Florida
Physical Medicine & Rehab, Brain Injury Medicine - traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, catastrophic rehabilitation, amputation, polytrauma, function, activities of daily living, independence, caregiver, sleep, resilience
Dr. McCarthy is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and sub-specialty board certified in Brain Injury Medicine. Dr. McCarthy received acupuncture training at the Helms Medical Center and is a certified Battlefield acupuncture instructor. She treats the elite special forces from the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT). Dr. McCarthy is Program Director for the University of South Florida Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Training program. She holds an academic appointment at the University of South Florida in the department of Neurology as an Associate Professor. Dr. Marissa McCarthy has served as medical director at the James A. Haley VA Polytrauma Traumatic Brain Injury inpatient unit, the Polytrauma Transitional Rehabilitation Program, and Vocational Rehab. Dr. McCarthy earned her medical doctorate at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She completed her internship i...

Richard M Sobel, MD Sidney Kimmel Medical School, Thomas Jefferson University

Media, Pennsylvania
Psychiatry, Pain Management - Medicine - Psychopharmacology, Worker's Compensation, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Sleep, Depression, Anxiety, Compex Regional Pain Syndrome, Neuropathic Pain, Trauma, Opioids, Addiction, Medication
Specialty focus: Pain Medicine (for which I have sub-specialty board certification) psychotherapy, and Psychopharmacology. Academics: Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical School. Recipient of two resident teaching awards. Leadership: President of Greater Philadelphia Pain Society (local chapter of the American Pain Society) 2013-2015 Special skills: (1) Communication: I have lectured extensively on the management of depression and chronic pain to both large and small audiences. (2) Organization: I manage a large solo practice using a computer-based practice management system which I wrote and have updated for over 20 years.

Merrill S. Wise, MD Merrill S Wise

Memphis, Tennessee
Sleep Medicine, Pediatric Neurology - sleep, sleep disorders, excessive sleepiness, narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia, obstructive sleep apnea, sleep deprivation, motor vehicle accidents and sleep, post-traumatic hypersomnia, commercial drivers and sleepiness, complex sleep behaviors, polysomnography, sleep studies, sleep medications
Board certified neurologist and full-time sleep medicine specialist (Board certified) who evaluates and manages the full range of sleep disorders in children, adolescents and adults; focus on excessive sleepiness and hypersomnia, narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia, accident risk and sleep disorders, cognitive impairment, post-traumatic hypersomnia, and complex sleep behaviors. Active in the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) including board of directors 2010-2016, participation on numerous national committees and task forces including the AASM Standards of Practice committee, numerous publications related to diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, and prior academic appointments at Baylor College of Medicine (1998-2006) and University of Alabama at Birmingham (1991-1998). In practice since 2006 in Memphis, TN, a large quadra-modal transportation and shipping hub (world hub and headquarters for FedEx) with thousands of pilots, air traffic controllers, commercial driver...