Interventional Pain Expert Witnesses
Interventional pain 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 interventional pain. The interventional pain expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Addiction Medicine, Anesthesiology, Pain Management - Medicine, and Physical Medicine & Rehab.
Jordan Lee Newmark, MD, QME Stanford University School of Medicine; Vituity; E&S Newmark Consulting Corp
Redwood City , California
Pain Management - Medicine, Anesthesiology
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Chronic pain, acute pain, opioids, addiction, surgery, perioperative, human resources, interventional pain, trauma, medical staff office, interdisciplinary care, medical education
Dr. Newmark is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University, an Anesthesiologist and Pain Medicine physician within Vituity, and the President & CEO of E&S Newmark Consulting focused on the practice of medicine, qualified medical evaluation, expert witnessing, career and academic development, and medical-leadership consulting. Prior to this, Dr. Newmark was the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology of Alameda Health System. The overall focus of Dr. Newmark's career has been to address national health issues through community and health system leadership and medical education, particularly surrounding the topics of perioperative and surgical care quality, opioid safety, addiction related care, pandemic and mass casualty response planning, and addressing health equity and bias in health care delivery.
Dr. Newmark’s patient care and clinical interests include chronic and acute pain management, interdisciplinary / procedural pain treatment, team based approaches t...
Sudheer Potru, DO, D.ABA, FASAM
Atlanta, Georgia
Pain Management - Medicine, Addiction Medicine
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opioids, opioid prescribing, overdose, addiction, suboxone, MAT, anesthesiology, pain medicine, chronic pain, interventional pain, spinal injections, spinal cord stimulation
Dr. Potru is triple-board-certified in anesthesiology, interventional pain medicine, and addiction medicine; he is one of less than 25 clinicians across the country with this combination of certifications and has unique expertise as a result. Dr. Potru is a nationally recognized and well-published expert in the treatment of chronic pain and addiction as well as the treatment of the addicted patient in the perioperative period; he is a question author for the American Board of Anesthesiology's Pain Medicine board exam and sits on numerous national anesthesia/pain committees.
Dr. Potru has given talks at the American Society of Anesthesiologists conference, the American Academy of Pain Medicine national meeting, and multiple invited grand rounds presentations on anesthesiology, chronic pain and addiction, including at highly reputed institutions such as the Mayo Clinic. He has special interest in opioid safety/prescribing, opioid and other substance use disorders (addiction), and i...
Tom Simopoulos, M.D., M.A. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Southborough, Massachusetts
Pain Management - Medicine, Anesthesiology
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opioids, spinal cord stimulator, radiofrequency procedures, spinal injections, complex regional pain syndrome, Persistent pain after injuries, interventional pain, criminal, fraud, CRPS, ablations, nerve injury, chronic pain, failed back surgery, over dose, personal injury, RSD, disc herniation
Thomas T. Simopoulos, MD, MA, is a Harvard trained and faculty pain management specialist at the Arnold Pain Management Center and an anesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). He is also an Associate Professor in Anesthesia at the Harvard Medical School. He has multiple teaching awards by fellows in training and recognized as "Top Doctor" in the Boston area since 2017.
Dr. Simopoulos attended medical school at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. He completed his postdoctoral training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Faulkner Hospital in Boston. Dr. Simopoulos holds a Masters of Arts degree in Biochemistry from Brandeis University in Waltham. He is board-certified in Anesthesiology with a Pain Medicine subspecialty. Dr. Simopoulos has strong clinical interests that include radiofrequency technology, intradiscal therapies and e...
Daniel Southren, MD, MBA
Boston, Massachusetts
Pain Management - Medicine, Anesthesiology
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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, CRPS, RSD, Nerve Injury, Nerve Pain, Failed Back, Epidural Injections, Hematoma, Pain Medicine, Interventional Pain, Opioids, Opioid Overdose, Utilization, Disability, Vertebral Augmentation, Spinal Cord Stimulation, Neuromodulation, Anesthesiology
Dr. Daniel L Southren, M.D. is a Harvard-trained physician who is double-board certified in both Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. He works in clinical development for a biotechnology company and maintains his anesthesia practice at a number of Harvard affiliated teaching hospitals. Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Southren completed his Interventional Pain Medicine Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School and his Anesthesiology Residency at the University of Michigan. He completed his M.D. and M.B.A. at Columbia University in New York City.
His clinical expertise is in the treatment of acute and chronic pain patients with both malignant and non malignant pain diagnoses, and the practice of general anesthesiology.
His ability to distill complex medical issues into coherent and accessible language has been at the core of his success as an educator, clinician and consultant.
EXPERTISE: Interven...
SAGAR S. PARIKH, MD, FAAPMR
Livingston, New Jersey
Pain Management - Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehab
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Pain Medicine, Interventional Pain, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Sports Medicine, Workers Compensation, Independent Medical Exams, IMEs
Certification:
Board Certified in PM&R
Board Certified in Pain Medicine
Memberships:
American Academy of Pain Medicine
NYNJSIPP – Society of Interventional Pain Practitioners Association of Academic Physiatrists
American Academy of PM&R
Work Experience
Interventional & Integrative Pain Physician
Downtown Pain Management 2021-Present
Director
Center for Sports & Spine Medicine
ACGME - JFK Pain Fellowship
Attending Physician
Interventional Pain Medicine
JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute Hackensack Meridian Health
2015-Present
Interventional Pain Physician
University Pain Medicine Center Private Practice
2013-2015
Academic Appointments:
Pain Fellowship Director - Department of PM&R at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute Edison, NJ
Assistant Professor - Department of PM&R at UMDNJ-Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Assistant Professor - Department of PM&R at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Special Assignments / Leadership:
GATHER-ED Opioid Curriculum
Group Lead...
Jason Brajer, MD JB Pain Free MD
BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania
Pain Management - Medicine, Anesthesiology
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Interventional Pain Management,
Spinal Injections,
Narcotic Administration,
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy,
lumbar radiculopathy,
cervical radiculopathy,
chronic pain
Full-time office based interventional pain management with fluoroscopy. All spinal injections done from basic epidurals to spinal cord stimulation.
Clinically active full time, board certified in anesthesiology [33 yr] and pain management [25 yr]
Medical malpractice expert, defense and plaintiff, 15 years with less than 20% professional income from this source
Consultant for Blue Shield / Highmark of PA
Founding Director, Montgomery Pain Center
Former Associate chairman, Dept of Anesthesiology, Montgomery Hospital