Heart Rhythm Expert Witnesses

San Diego, California

Cardiothoracic Surgery, Critical Care Medicine - heart, lung, thoracotomy, ICU, intensive care, minimally invasive, robotic surgery, vascular, esophagus, IABP, intra-aortic balloon pump, sternotomy, sternal closure, wound infection, ECMO, extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation, pulmonary catheter, wound, central line, heart rhythm

I am an experienced (nearly 15 years), detail-oriented physician assistant well versed in managing patients with cardiac, lung, vascular and esophageal disorders. I manage patients from consultation, through the operating room and intensive care, all the way to the outpatient setting, and have exclusively worked in the specialty of adult cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. Skilled as an operative first assistant, managing pre- and post-operative issues in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and hospital, I can explain what should happen if all goes well during a patient's hospital course and manage any untoward outcome. I have harvested over 1300 greater saphenous veins, first-assisted in thousands of cases, and hundreds of radial artery harvests and sternal closures. Cardiothoracic surgical cases are quite complex, with several different sub-procedures within the procedure. I can help make sense of this so that interested parties can have an accurate picture of what likely took pl...

Baltimore, Maryland

Electrophysiology, Cardiovascular Disease - Arrhythmia, Electrophysiology, Atrial fibrillation, Pacemaker, Sudden cardiac death, Cardiac arrest, Device implantation, ICD malfunction, Device infection, Heart rhythm, EP study, Ablation, Lead displacement, Standard of care, Anticoagulation, Supraventricular Tachycardia, Ventricular tachycardia, Medical malpractice, Syncope

Dr. Konstantinos N. Aronis is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Complex Ablation Program, and Associate Director of the Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation Program. He provides objective, academically rigorous expert testimony in cardiac electrophysiology, medical devices, and standard-of-care evaluation. Available for plaintiff or defense. CREDENTIALS: MD and PhD (Summa Cum Laude, University of Patras, Greece). Harvard Medical School Research Fellow. Internal Medicine (Boston University). Cardiovascular Disease and NIH-funded Computational EP Fellowship (Johns Hopkins). Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (Johns Hopkins). BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Cardiovascular Disease, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (ABIM); Adult Echocardiography (NBE). Active licenses: Maryland, Pennsylvania. ACADEMIC IMPACT: H-index 31, 3,300+ citations. 55+ original research papers, 9 reviews, 6 book chapters. Associate Editor, JACC Case ...