Interventional Pain Procedures Expert Witnesses

Interventional pain procedures 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 procedures. The interventional pain procedures expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Anesthesiology, Pain Management - Medicine, and Physical Medicine & Rehab.

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David M Schultz, MD

Double-boarded interventional pain doctor

Virtual Pain Clinic

California

Pain Management - Medicine, Anesthesiology - Intrathecal Pain Pumps, Spinal Cord Stimulation Systems, Interventional Pain Procedures, Opioid Use Disorder, Chronic Pain, Epidural Steroid Injections, MILD Procedure, Basivertebral Nerve Ablation, Kyphoplasty, Vertebroplasty, Radiofrequency Nerve Ablation, Neurostimulation, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Failed Back Syndrome, IDET

David Schultz MD is a board-certified anesthesiologist and interventional pain specialist with over three decades of extensive experience in pain management. He has served as a medical expert in various medico-legal cases from 2000 to 2024 involving allegations against interventional radiologists, pain physicians, neurosurgeons, podiatrists, hospitals, and healthcare systems. These cases cover a range of issues including paralysis after epidural injections, complications from surgeries, opioid addiction claims, fentanyl overdoses and diversion, spinal cord injuries, and complex chronic pain management disputes. Throughout his career, Dr. Schultz has evaluated and managed thousands of complex chronic patients, employing a variety of treatment modalities including medication management, physical therapy, behavioral health interventions, image-guided injections, nerve ablations, and trials and surgical implants of pain control devices, including neurostimulation systems and pain pumps...

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Merna Naji, MD

Dual-Boarded PM&R and Pain Management Physician

Sacramento, California

Physical Medicine & Rehab, Pain Management - Medicine - Spinal cord injury, Disc herniation, Lumbar injury, Neuropathic pain, CRPS, Degenerative Disc Disease, Spinal stenosis, Thoracic injury, Amputation, Disability, Failed back surgery, Whiplash, Cervical injury, Interventional pain procedures, Brain injury, Motor vehicle accident, Concussion, Radiculopathy, Falls, Opioids

Merna Naji, MD is a dual-board-certified physician in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) and Pain Medicine, offering a unique, function-focused and evidence-based perspective in medical-legal cases involving pain, injury, and disability. Her dual certification allows her to evaluate not only pain generation and treatment, but also functional impairment, recovery trajectory, and long-term outcomes—an expertise combination particularly valuable in complex personal injury, workers’ compensation, and disability matters. Dr. Naji completed her Interventional Pain Medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where she served as Chief Fellow, and her PM&R residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California, Davis, where she is actively involved in teaching pain fellows and PM&R residents. Her PM&R background provides a strong foundati...