End Of Life Decision Making Expert Witnesses

Fort Collins, Colorado

Family Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Care - Hospice Medicine, End-of-life decision making, Goals of care documentation, Capacity assessments, Medical ethics, Palliative care, Functional decline, DNR/DNI decisions, Geriatrics, Terminal agitation and sedation, Medical decision-making capacity, Goals of care, Standard of care in terminal illness

I am a board-certified family physician and practicing hospice medical director with over 15 years of clinical experience in outpatient care and end-of-life settings. I maintain an active clinical practice and hold an unrestricted medical license. I provide expert medical opinions on standard of care, causation, and medical decision-making capacity in hospice and palliative care settings, as well as primary care. I work directly with attorneys representing plaintiffs or defendants in cases involving: • Delayed or missed hospice or palliative care referrals • Inappropriate or premature withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments during end-of-life transitions • Failure to assess or document decision-making capacity • Poor interdisciplinary communication within hospice and palliative teams • Missed diagnoses or delayed treatment in primary care • System-level care coordination failures in hospice or palliative care transitions My reviews address both individual clinician conduct and b...

Henderson, Nevada

Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Disease - Mechanical Ventilation, non-invasive ventilation, ECMO, pulmonary embolism, Sepsis, obstructive sleep apnea, ARDS, end-of-life decision making, airway management

Board-certified physician in Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine, Sleep Medicine, and Internal Medicine with over ten years of active clinical practice. Currently completing a Juris Doctor at UNLV Boyd School of Law with a concentration in health law. Available for expert review, case consultation, and testimony in pulmonary, critical care, sleep medicine, and internal medicine matters. Actively practicing as an attending physician at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco with prior ICU experience across the San Diego area. Clinical peer reviewer for Maximus Federal Services, performing independent clinical audits for federal healthcare programs, synthesizing complex medical records to determine adherence to national standards of care and medical necessity CERTIFICATION S Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2016 — Currently Active Pulmonary Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2018 — Currently Active Critical Care Medicine, American B...

Austin, Texas

Hospice and Palliative Care, Internal Medicine - End of life, Serious illness, Chronic illness, End-of-life decision making, Goals of care documentation, Palliative Care, Palliative Medicine, Hospice, Medical decision-making, Clinical decision-making, Advanced Directives, Advance Directives, General Inpatient Hospice, GIP Hospice, Complex symptom management, Surrogate decision

I have been practicing as a Board-certified Internal Medicine physician since 2001 and as a Board-Certified Hospice and Palliative Medicine physician since 2008. I practiced hospital-based palliative medicine in an urban teaching hospital prior to transitioning to work as a community-based hospice physician. I have worked as a Hospice Medical Director since 2020 and have been involved in multiple quality improvement projects and audits. I oversee multiple physicians and nurse practitioners and make hospice visits in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences. I continue to participate in Maintenance of Certification for my primary and secondary board certifications. I am also board certified as a Hospice Medical Director by the Hospice Medical Director Certification Board. I am a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. I am also the site director for the Dell Medical School Hospice a...