Pregnancy Expert Witnesses

Acton, California

Legal Nurse Consulting, Obstetrics & Gynecology - Birth Trauma, Birth Injury, Labor & Delivery, Maternal Death, Neonatal Death, Postpartum Hemorrhage, Shoulder Dystocia, Medication Administration Errors, Pharmaceutical Errors, Pregnancy, Birth, Cesarean Section, Preeclampsia, Fetal Heart Monitoring

I am Marisa Loza, founder of Loza Legal Consulting, specializing in legal nurse consulting focusing in inpatient obstetrics. I have been a nurse for 17 years including 13 years as a Labor and Delivery nurse working in a high risk inpatient setting. I have AWHONN Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certification and Membership. I currently hold a certification in Inpatient Obstetrics through the National Certification Corporation. I review medical records, as well as develop reports and summaries of medical care in my field of expertise. I have charge nurse experience including team leading, delegating tasks, communicating with physicians and ancillary departments, and coordinating care. I manage antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum patients including high risk and obstetric emergencies. I also manage preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative patients for obstetric related surgical procedures. I am skilled in high risk medication administration and monitoring. I am qualified to act ...

San diego, California

Pediatric Neurology - Headache, HIE, Seizures, Epilepsy, Autism, Birth, Pregnancy, Concussion, Brain Trauma, Vision, Hearing, Stroke, Cerebral palsy, Nerve damage, Weakness, Brain Tumor

Seasoned Pediatric Neurology physician with a decade of experience. I was trained at the Mayo Clinic, and I have worked in several academic settings, including at Stanford, Children's Hospital of Atlanta, to name a few. I have also worked in HMO settings, and local clinical settings. I am as comfortable in the inpatient hospital setting as I am in the clinic and reading EEGs. I provide fast turnaround times for review of cases and IME.

Tarzana, California

Anesthesiology, Legal Medicine - airway, difficult intubation, brain damage, low oxygen, hypoxia, hypotension, blood pressure, paralysis, narcotics, aspiration, allergic reaction, pregnancy, epidural, awareness, drug interaction, positioning, numbness, ultrasound, nerve injury, nerve block

Dr. Pejman Golpanian is a highly experienced, board-certified Anesthesiologist actively practicing in California. He currently practices and holds privileges at 40+ outpatient ambulatory surgical centers, dental offices, and multiple Hospitals in the Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, and Thousand Oaks areas. He has performed well over 15,000 successful anesthetic procedures and is highly trained in all aspects of anesthesiology including general anesthesia, dental anesthesia (with a current dental anesthesia license), regional anesthesia with ultrasound guided peripheral nerve blocks, neuro-axial spinal and epidural anesthesia, and sedation with monitored anesthesia care. Dr. Golpanian is an active expert consultant for the Medical Board of California assisting investigators, prosecutors, and administrative law judges in understanding the medical aspects of a medical-legal case. He provides clinical expertise and testimony regarding the practice of medicine and can e...

Tampa, Florida

Obstetrics & Gynecology, Gynecology - obstetrics, gynecology, labor and delivery, cesarean section, hysterectomy, office gynecology, obstetric hemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, ectopic pregnancy, discrimination, laparoscopy, pregnancy, preeclampsia, hypertension in pregnancy, quality improvement, postpartum hemorrhage, menopause, hormone replacement therapy, hormone therapy

Dr. Vanessa Hux is an experienced, board-certified Ob/Gyn currently practicing in Lakeland, FL. Dr. Hux completed her undergraduate degree with a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and then matriculated to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where she completed her M.D. During her training, she also completed a fellowship in clinical research and studied the impact of chronic stress on risk for preeclampsia. She completed her residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 2018. She completed her board certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2021. Dr. Hux has published and presented numerous times on her research and on topics in obstetrics and gynecology. She has clinical and teaching experience in a variety of community and academic settings and is active in quality improvement work throughout the state of Florida. She currently practices as a comprehensive Obstetrician/Gynecologis...

Silver Spring, Maryland

Anesthesiology - General anesthesia, Regional anesthesia, Airway management, Difficult airway, Nerve block / injury, Standard of care, Acute pain, Recovery room, Awareness, Ultrasound, Aspiration, Medical malpractice, Monitored Anesthesia Care - MA, Conscious sedation, Epidural, Spinal, Obstetric anesthesia, Death, Pregnancy, CPR

Board-certified anesthesiologist providing expert witness services in medical malpractice cases involving perioperative care, airway management, sedation, and anesthesia-related complications and adverse events. Active in full-time clinical practice across Maryland and Washington, D.C., with extensive experience in standard of care analysis, causation, and anesthetic decision-making across diverse surgical and procedural settings. With more than 15 years of clinical experience, he has developed broad expertise across general anesthesiology, including ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia, peripheral nerve blocks, and perioperative pain management. His experience includes both solo practice and medical direction models, with extensive involvement in supervising certified registered nurse anesthetists. In addition to clinical practice, he has held key leadership roles, including serving as interim chairman of the Department of Anesthesia at a community hospital in Baltimore, MD dur...

Boston, Massachusetts

Obstetrical Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology - Birth injury, Amniotic fluid embolism, Blood patch, Cesarean section, Nerve injury from epidural, Failed spinal anesthesia, Sugammadex, Epidural labor, Tubal ligation, Local anesthesia toxicity, Pregnancy, Intubation, Colonoscopy, Endoscopy, Pulmonary embolism, Heparin, Maternal cardiac arrest, Anesthesia, Awareness, Eye injury

My name is Dan M. Drzymalski, M.D. and I am an expert witness in anesthesiology. I graduated with an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and I am a full-time anesthesiologist at an academic hospital, Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. My titles include Chief of Obstetric Anesthesia at Tufts Medical Center and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts University School of Medicine. I am also serving as Co-Chair of the Moderate Sedation Committee at Tufts Medical Center. The past 10 years of my clinical practice have included a wide range of anesthesia experiences, including, but not limited to, obstetric anesthesia, epidural analgesia, spinal anesthesia, amniotic fluid embolism management, pulmonary embolism management, blood patch, cesarean delivery, cerclage, tubal ligation, training for local anesthetic toxicity, maternal cardiac arrest, anesthesia for gastrointestinal procedures (colonoscopy, endoscopy, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, etc.), monitor...

Elkhorn, Nebraska

Emergency Medicine - Ketamine Clinics, Military medicine, Integrative Medicine, sepsis, Airway emergencies, Failure to Diagnose, Pregnancy, Pulmonary Embolism, Ectopic, Stroke, Testicular Torsion, Ovarian Torsion, Myocardial Infarction, ketamine, sedation

Emergency Medicine board-certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM.) Founder of Waybridge Ketamine Clinics, member of American Society of Ketamine Physicians, Psychotherapists & Practitioners (ASKP3). Integrative Medicine Fellowship trained. Served as Medical Officer in US Navy Medical Corps with USMC combat tour achieving rank of Lieutenant Commander. Active clinical practice and experience treating adults and children spanning a Level 1 trauma center, mid-sized community emergency departments and rural, critical access emergency departments in multiple states. Currently practicing in a community setting treating a population of over 800k and 27k. Experienced educator, author, and public speaker. Proficient in Spanish. Highly educated having completed her medical education at Loyola Strich School of Medicine, residency at the Naval Medical Hospital San Diego (NMCSD), and ongoing fellowship at University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center of Integrative Me...

Gig Harbor, Washington

Family Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology - hospital medicine, academic medicine, evidence based medicine, family medicine, pregnancy, labor, delivery

Board Certified in Family Medicine. Special focus on academic and clinical teaching for the past 23 years. Academic rank of full professor at 3 public university schools of medicine.