Low Birth Weight Expert Witnesses
Low birth weight 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 low birth weight. The low birth weight expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine and Nurse Practitioner.
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James R. Hocker, MD
Fernandina Beach, Florida
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine
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NICU, Neonatology, prematurity, low birth weight, intrauterine growth restriction, birth trauma, birth injuries, birth defects, sepsis, hypoglycemia, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, bilirubin encephalopathy, newborn resuscitation
-Board certified neonatologist who has practiced for 29 years in both private and academic practices.
-Has worked in all levels of care from normal newborn nurseries to Level IV NICUs
-Experience as a Medical Director of a Level IV NICU for 18 years
-On faculty at University of Illinois College of Medicine for 28 years
-Has worked with Advanced Practice Nurses, Residents and medical students at the bedside and in the classroom
-Over 10 years of experience as Medical Expert Witness for both plaintiff and defense
-Multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals
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Marisa Palomino, BSN, CCRN, RNC-NIC, C-ELBW, C-NNIC
Neonatal Nurse Expert
Lake Worth, Florida
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine
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NICU, neonatal, neonatal intensive care, transition, fetal loss, prematurity, birth asphyxia, birth trauma, birth defects, congenital abnormalities, premature, hypoglycemia, low birth weight, nursery, newborn, HIE, full body cooling, baby, infant, central lines
• 18 years of Neonatal Intensive Care nursing experience
(including bedside nurse, clinical manager, and assistant nurse manager
positions) All experience in level III NICUs.
• Four advanced Neonatal Nursing certifications:
-Certification in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing (RNC-NIC)
-CCRN-Neonatal certification
-Certification in Extremely Low Birth Weight infants (C-ELBW)
-Certification in Neonatal Neuro-Intensive Care (C-NNIC)
• Extensive experience in providing direct patient to care to complex and
critically ill neonates, including: ELBW infants, LBW infants, post-delivery
stabilization, pre- and post-op surgical infants, full body cooling, EEG monitoring, exchange
transfusions, as well as, providing NRP resuscitation efforts to critically
unstable neonates
• Attends high-risk deliveries including post-delivery stabilization and
resuscitation o...
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Dr. Nasim Gorji, DO, FAAP
Neonatologist - Harvard Medical Faculty Physician
Boston, Massachusetts
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine
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Neonatology, Neonatal ICU, Birth injury, Birth trauma, Birth defects, Newborn resuscitation, Newborn, Prematurity, Low birth weight, Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), Hypoglycemia, Jaundice, Neonatal infection (sepsis), Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), Cooling
Dr. Nasim Gorji, DO is a board-certified neonatologist employed by Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians with a decade of experience managing critically ill newborns in both academic and community neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). She attends high risk deliveries, stabilizes these newborns in the delivery room, and cares for medically complex neonates for months after their birth. She also has extensive experience stabilizing critically ill neonates for transport to higher-level tertiary care hospitals. She is a distinguished educator, having held academic appointments as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and interim Associate Program Director of a Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship program in the Boston area. Her expertise extends to curriculum development, where she has designed and implemented educational programs for medical students, residents, and fellows. Dr. Gorji is a leader in neonatal resuscitation, serving as an instructor who trains multidisciplinary teams in l...
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Karen L Lefler, MSN/Ed, APRN, NNP-BC, LNC
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner/NICU RN Expert Witness
ACP Legal Nurse Consulting, LLC
Sneads Ferry, North Carolina
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine, Nurse Practitioner
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Newborn, HIE, brain inury, Birth Injury, bowel perforation, central line, Prematurity, low birth weight, umbilical catheter, PICC, sepsis, hypoglycemia, bilirubin, resuscitation, chest tube, intubation, arterial line, body cooling, home birth, respiratory failure
39 years of experience in the field of Neonatology/Newborn Care of which the past 29 years as a Board-Certified Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, primarily functioning in the maximum level of Neonatal Intensive Care Units (Level IV). Actively working in NICU.
Areas of expertise include EPI (Extremely Premature Infant), brain injury (therapeutic hypothermia/total body cooling), infants with respiratory failure, ECMO (heart/lung bypass), congenital heart defects, high risk neonatal deliveries, meconium aspiration of the newborn, care of medically complicated infants (infants with tracheostomies and feeding tubes), pediatric cardio-thoracic surgical infants, Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn (PPHN), routine newborn care and neonatal resuscitation.
Services provided:
*Review medical records and provide expert witness verbal or written report
*Identify standards of care and deviations from those standards
*Analysis of opposition expert's depositions
*Aid in the identificati...