Baby Expert Witnesses
Baby 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 baby. The baby expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: General Surgery, Mental Health, Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine, Pediatric Surgery, and Pediatrics.
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Colin G Knight, MD, FACS, FAAP
Pediatric Surgery Expert
South Miami, Florida
Pediatric Surgery, General Surgery
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surgeon, pediatric surgeon, surgery, pediatric surgery, surgery expert, expert, pediatrician, doctor, appendix, appendicitis, baby, infant, child, teen, adolescent, youth
After completing his undergraduate education at Yale University, Dr. Colin Knight earned his medical degree at the University of Virginia. Following a surgical internship at UVA, Dr. Knight served as a Flight Surgeon in the United States Air Force. In that capacity, he served as a primary care physician, occupational and travel medicine specialist, aircraft mishap investigator, and human factors consultant, and served on multiple deployments within the United States and overseas. He then completed surgical training at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and pediatric surgery training at the Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit. Dr. Colin Knight was an attending surgeon at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami, where he trained medical students, surgery residents, and pediatric surgery fellows for over a decade. He now practices at HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce, Florida. In addition to faculty appointments at Florida International University and Florida Stat...
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Marisa Palomino, BSN, CCRN, RNC-NIC, C-ELBW, C-NNIC
Neonatal Nurse Expert
Lake Worth, Florida
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine
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NICU, neonatal, neonatal intensive care, transition, fetal loss, prematurity, birth asphyxia, birth trauma, birth defects, congenital abnormalities, premature, hypoglycemia, low birth weight, nursery, newborn, HIE, full body cooling, baby, infant, central lines
• 18 years of Neonatal Intensive Care nursing experience
(including bedside nurse, clinical manager, and assistant nurse manager
positions) All experience in level III NICUs.
• Four advanced Neonatal Nursing certifications:
-Certification in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing (RNC-NIC)
-CCRN-Neonatal certification
-Certification in Extremely Low Birth Weight infants (C-ELBW)
-Certification in Neonatal Neuro-Intensive Care (C-NNIC)
• Extensive experience in providing direct patient to care to complex and
critically ill neonates, including: ELBW infants, LBW infants, post-delivery
stabilization, pre- and post-op surgical infants, full body cooling, EEG monitoring, exchange
transfusions, as well as, providing NRP resuscitation efforts to critically
unstable neonates
• Attends high-risk deliveries including post-delivery stabilization and
resuscitation o...
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Natasha Shapiro, MD
Neonatologist Attending, Level 3 NICU
Rego Park, New York
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine, Pediatrics
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Neonatology, Neonatologist, NICU, Periviable, Newborn, Resuscitation, NRP, Simulation, Director, Education, HIE, Prematurity, Baby, NEC, Formula, Breastfeeding, Sepsis, Intubation, Hypothermia, Seizures
Natasha Shapiro, MD is a board-certified neonatologist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College. She serves as an attending physician in the Division of Neonatology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens, where she has practiced since 2016, and since 2024 has been the Director of the Newborn Simulation and Education Program.
Dr. Shapiro earned her B.A. from Columbia University and her M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital, followed by a Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship at NYU Langone Medical Center and a Simulation Education fellowship at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is double board-certified in General Pediatrics (2013) and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (2018).
Her clinical expertise spans neonatal intensive care, resuscitation, perinatal counseling, breastfeeding education, and healthcare quality improvement. She has spearheaded several innovative programs, including t...
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Erin Troup-Drebot, LPC, NCC, CT, IMH-E (IV)
Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mental Health, Pediatrics
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Children, Infant, Early Childhood, child development, trauma, foster care, baby, toddler, anxiety, kids, adoption, attachment
Erin is a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in early childhood social emotional needs, particularly attachment, grief & loss, trauma and anxiety. With special attention to issues related to childhood mental health concerns and issues that contribute to that such as foster care, adoption, trauma, divorce etc... Erin Continues to practice in Pennsylvania and supervises multiple providers in their provision of services to children and families as well.
Erin has trained in Multiple states on Infant and early childhood attachment. She has spent 20 years in the field with experiences in multiple spaces such as outpatient care, Early Intervention, Partial Hospitalization, non profit programs, child welfare, Intensive Behavioral Health Services.
Pa Licensed Professional Counselor
Endorsed Infant Mental Health Professional
Member of the PA State Advisory Council on Early Education and Care
PA Association for Infant Mental Health Board appointment
Adjunct Faculty at the Univers...