Hemothorax Expert Witnesses

Beverly Hills, California

Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, Internal Medicine - Pulmonary, Critical Care, Occupational Lung Disease, Inhalational injuries, Fire, Smoke, Lung Cancer, Hospital Medicine, Skilled Nursing Faciilty, Sub-Acute, Post-Acute, Hospice and Palliative Care, Silicosis, COPD, Asthma, Pneumothorax, Hemothorax, Workman's Compensation, QME, General Medicine

Dr. Ashkan Lee Naraghi is a board-certified pulmonologist, intensivist, and internist with extensive academic, clinical, and medico-legal experience. He is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and formerly served as Clinical Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division within the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Naraghi earned his undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from UCLA and his medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, followed by fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Cedars-Sinai. He is the co-founder of the Beverly Hills Lung & Sleep Institute, where he maintains an active clinical practice, and serves as an attending physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. His clinical scope includes pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine, sleep disorders, cardiopulmonary evaluat...

Allen, Texas

Emergency Medicine - Trauma, Hyponatremia, Stemi, Ultrasound, ACS, Pneumothorax, Stroke, Hemothorax, Burn, Appendicitis, Pediatrics, Cholecystitis, Respiratory failure, Liver failure, Heart attack, Kidney failure, EKG interpretation, Fracture, Epidural hematoma, Dislocation

I trained at John Peter Smith Hospital, which is a Level 1 Trauma Center and Tertiary Care Referral Center for North Texas with over 110,000 patient visits annually. I now work clinically at Baylor Scott & White - Irving ER. I have extensive experience in peer review, providing informed expert opinion about the appropriateness of care, medical necessity, bill review - including reviewing charges against Usual, Customary, and Reasonable fees. I have extensive experience in utilizing the PMIC handbook. I primarily review care and charges associated with ER encounters involving a patient who presents following a Motor Vehicle Collision. I have served as an EDQA committee member at Baylor Scott & White - Irving for the last 3 years and am one of the primary reviewers. I function to review cases brought before the committee and present them to the EDQA committee, assessing whether care was appropriate from an ER physician and going into detail into how care could have been better deliv...