Block Expert Witnesses
Block 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 block. The block expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Emergency Medicine and Ultrasound.
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Akash Desai, MD, FACEP
UCSD Emergency Medicine and Ultrasound Faculty
Desai Medical Inc
San Diego, California
Ultrasound, Emergency Medicine
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Trauma, Cardiac Arrest, Myocardial Infarction, Electrocardiography, Diabetic, Torsion, Respiratory Failure, Intubation, Shock, Sepsis, CVC, Biliary, Block, Abscess, EMTALA, Airway, Narcotic Prescription, Seizure, Overdose, Stroke
Board certified emergency medicine physician in active clinical practice in California. Current Fellowship Director of Advanced Clinical Ultrasound at the University of California, San Diego, and the inaugural Director of Emergency Ultrasound at the University of California, San Diego East Campus. Leader of the fellowship program, training graduates of emergency medicine residency who would otherwise be working as attending emergency medicine physicians in advanced clinical point-of-care ultrasound techniques, both diagnostic and procedural. Performs quality assurance, case review, and teaching for point-of-care ultrasound applications hospital-wide. Completed residency training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, and fellowship training in Advanced Clinical Bedside Ultrasound at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Experience as faculty instructor at national meetings for the American College of Emergency Physicians and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Published auth...