Perinatal Expert Witnesses

San Francisco, California

Eating Disorders - Self Harm, Postpartum, Borderline Personality Disorder, Perinatal, Trauma, Athletes, Substance Use, Women's Health

Jessica C. Lief, MSW, LCSW, MLS Speciality: Eating Disorders, Body Image, Borderline Personality Disorder, Self-Harm, Substance Use, Women's Issues LCSW and Psychotherapist Jessica C. Lief, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, body image, Borderline Personality Disorder, self-harm, and substance use. Jessica completed psychoanalytic training through the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology in the Eating Disorders, Compulsions, and Addictions (EDCAS) Program. She also completed the advanced clinical supervision training program through Smith College School for Social Work. Her approach is primarily psychodynamic but combines aspects of self-psychology, feminist/womanist theories, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Seeking Safety, mindful self-compassion, and mindfulness. She is particularly interested in the treatment of eating disorders as a social justice issue...

Nurse, Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine - NICU Nurse Expert, Neonatal Nurse Expert, Infant Nurse Expert, Newborn Nurse, Prematurity, Birth Injury, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Injury), NEC (necrotizing enterocolitis), BPD, Pre-Op and Post-op Care, Sepsis, Tracheostomies, Ventilators, Central Lines, IV complications, Surgery, Therapeutic Hypothermia, Hypoglycemia

19 years as a Neonatal ICU (NICU) nurse in a Level IV NICU (birth to 8 months) at a Harvard Medical teaching hospital. Actively at the bedside. Neonatal critical care certification. Experience with most newborn and infant medical and surgical diagnoses, including (but not limited to): birth injury, prematurity, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), therapeutic hypothermia, chronic lung disease (CLD), bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), IV infiltration/extravasation, hypoglycemia, seizures, wound care, abdominal wall defects, esophageal atresia, cardiac defects, neurologic disorders, metabolic disorders, rare genetic disorders, and multi system failure. Routinely care for patients on multiple modes of ventilation, and/or with tracheostomies, chest tubes, gastric tubes, and central lines. Post-anesthesia care (PACU). Discharge planning and education. NRP and PALS certification. Deposition and Trial experience as a NICU nurse expert. Cell #774.284.02...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Psychiatry, Behavioral and Social Sciences - Perinatal, Deprescribing, Adolescent, Addiction, Geriatric, Consult and liason, Hospital psychiatry, Emergency psychiatry, ADHD, PTSD, postpartum, treatment-resistant depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia

Medical Director of intensive outpatient program. Managing patient population from the age of 13 and older, including a subset of geriatric and perinatal patients. Cases include deprescribing in appropriate patient populations, in particular gradual taper off long-term benzodiazepine use. Also working as an on-call Consult & Liaison psychiatrist for medically admitted patients with a significant percentages of geriatric cases, difficult to place psychosocially complex cases and emergency psychiatry cases seen both in the emergency department and in the crisis response center. With a prior history of working for several years in a methadone maintenance clinic in the outpatient psychiatry department with experience managing MMT patients and a significant portion of focus on minimizing risk of psychotropic abuse. Specialty certifications include American Board of Adolescent Psychiatry with extensive clinical experience working with adolescents in clinical practice, as well as Perina...