Emergency Care Expert Witnesses

Arizona

Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine - Trauma- ATLS Instructor, Critical Care, Brain Trauma, Airway Injurys, Burns, Accidental Trauma, Electrocution, Fractures, Orthopedic Injuries, Nerve Pain, Traumatic Brain Injury, Emergency Care, Heart Attack, Cardiac Arrest, Respiratory Arrest, Urgent Care, Radiculopathy, Back pain, Infections, Board Certified

I am a board‑certified Emergency Medicine physician and current attending at Cedars‑Sinai Medical Center with experience teaching trauma and emergency care. I regularly educate and supervise emergency medicine residents, physician assistants, and medical students, serve as an ATLS instructor, and teach trauma evaluation and resuscitation in high‑acuity clinical settings. My teaching background include pediatric emergency medicine lectures, ultrasound lectures, EKG lectures, ATLS/Trauma lectures, bedside instruction, and formal didactics, allowing me to clearly explain standards of care and clinical decision‑making to attorneys, judges, and juries. I bring a practical, evidence‑based approach to case review, report preparation, and testimony grounded in contemporary academic emergency department practice. Topics addressed in cases include: Failure to Diagnose Missed Diagnosis Delayed Diagnosis Pain & Suffering Ischemia Causation Personal Injury Delay in Care Delay in Transfer Nerv...

Los Angeles, California

Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine - Trauma- ATLS Instructor, Critical Care, Brain Trauma, Airway Injurys, Burns, Accidental Trauma, Electrocution, Fractures, Orthopedic Injuries, Nerve Pain, Traumatic Brain Injury, Emergency Care, Heart Attack, Cardiac Arrest, Respiratory Arrest, Urgent Care, Radiculopathy, Back pain, Infections, Board Certified

I am a board‑certified Emergency Medicine physician and current attending at Cedars‑Sinai Medical Center with experience teaching trauma and emergency care. I regularly educate and supervise emergency medicine residents, physician assistants, and medical students, serve as an ATLS instructor, and teach trauma evaluation and resuscitation in high‑acuity clinical settings. My teaching background include pediatric emergency medicine lectures, ultrasound lectures, EKG lectures, ATLS/Trauma lectures, bedside instruction, and formal didactics, allowing me to clearly explain standards of care and clinical decision‑making to attorneys, judges, and juries. I bring a practical, evidence‑based approach to case review, report preparation, and testimony grounded in contemporary academic emergency department practice. Topics addressed in cases include: Failure to Diagnose Missed Diagnosis Delayed Diagnosis Pain & Suffering Ischemia Causation Personal Injury Delay in Care Delay in Transfer Nerv...

Santa Clara, California

Mental Health, Social Work - Social Work, Triage, Lanterman Petris Short LPS, Involuntary Committment, Suicide, Crisis Intervention, Risk Assessment, Behavioral Health, Patient Rights, Standard of Care, Severe Mental Illness (SMI), Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Anosognosia, Emergency Care, Joint Commission (JHACO), HEDIS, CMS, EMTALA

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with extensive experience working in outpatient and acute inpatient psychiatric settings. I have treated a broad spectrum of complex psychiatric conditions including depression, anxiety, post‑traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and co‑occurring substance‑use disorders. I have over a decade of experience working in acute inpatient psychiatric hospitals serving patients experiencing mental health crises. Many patients I worked with were admitted to the hospital on 72 hour involuntary psychiatric holds (5150). There, I provided direct care, safety planning, complex discharge coordination, and testified at involuntary (5250, 5260, 5270) certification hearings. I regularly represented the hospital at these hearings, testifying on the clinical criteria for Danger to Self (DTS), Danger to Others (DTO), and Grave Disability (GD). Furthermore, I have collaborated closely with numerous Cou...

Atlanta, Georgia

Emergency Medicine - Emergency care, Trauma, Stroke, Seizure, Headache, Neurologic emergencies, Cardiac, Heart attack, Clinical reasoning, Infectious disease, Bias, Practice guidelines, Clinical reasoning, Medical error

Dr. Joshua Wallenstein is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and a board-certified emergency physician with more than two decades of clinical experience at Grady Memorial Hospital, one of the nation’s largest emergency departments and trauma centers. His expertise includes emergency care standards, clinical decision-making, cognitive bias in medicine, and physician education. Dr. Wallenstein is a national leader in medical education and currently serves as Director of the Clinical Reasoning Thread at Emory, where he leads curriculum development focused on diagnostic reasoning, patient safety, and evidence-based care. An award-winning educator, he has received multiple distinguished teaching honors and has delivered invited lectures nationally and internationally on seizure management, neurologic emergencies, trauma care, cognitive bias in clinical decision-making, and strategies to improve diagnostic accuracy in emergency settings. His peer-rev...

Nevada

Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine - Trauma- ATLS Instructor, Critical Care, Brain Trauma, Airway Injurys, Burns, Accidental Trauma, Electrocution, Fractures, Orthopedic Injuries, Nerve Pain, Traumatic Brain Injury, Emergency Care, Heart Attack, Cardiac Arrest, Respiratory Arrest, Urgent Care, Radiculopathy, Back pain, Infections, Board Certified

I am a board‑certified Emergency Medicine physician and current attending at Cedars‑Sinai Medical Center with experience teaching trauma and emergency care. I regularly educate and supervise emergency medicine residents, physician assistants, and medical students, serve as an ATLS instructor, and teach trauma evaluation and resuscitation in high‑acuity clinical settings. My teaching background include pediatric emergency medicine lectures, ultrasound lectures, EKG lectures, ATLS/Trauma lectures, bedside instruction, and formal didactics, allowing me to clearly explain standards of care and clinical decision‑making to attorneys, judges, and juries. I bring a practical, evidence‑based approach to case review, report preparation, and testimony grounded in contemporary academic emergency department practice. Topics addressed in cases include: Failure to Diagnose Missed Diagnosis Delayed Diagnosis Pain & Suffering Ischemia Causation Personal Injury Delay in Care Delay in Transfer Nerv...