Readmission Expert Witnesses
Readmission 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 readmission. The readmission expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Hospitalist and Internal Medicine.
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Rebecca M Lekim, DO, QME
Hospital based Internal Medicine Physician
SAN RAMON, California
Internal Medicine, Hospitalist
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Atrial fibrillation, Syncope, NSTEMI, Delirium, Diabetes/DKA, GI bleed Pancreatitis, Inpatient Death, Failure to diagnose, Readmission, Perioperative, Acute kidney injury hyponatremia, Respiratory failure COPD Asthma, Sepsis, Stroke, Congestive Heart Failure, DVT/PE, Alcohol withdrawal, Hyperkalemia, Discharge Planning
I am a board-certified internal medicine physician and hospitalist based in the East Bay, California, with over a decade of post-graduate clinical experience. I completed my residency at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in 2018 and currently practice at a high-acuity stroke and trauma center, caring for medically complex patients including ICU step-down–level cases.
I am a California Qualified Medical Evaluator (Internal Medicine) and serve as a Medical Consultant and Expert Reviewer for the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, conducting independent standards-of-care and medical record reviews. My work involves detailed analysis of complex medical timelines, causation, and clinical decision-making.
In addition to clinical practice, I have been involved in multiple hospital administrative committees. I currently serve as Chair of the Medical Records Committee and have participated extensively in peer review, quality improvement, and internal medicine quality oversight initiat...
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Sunny Jain, MD
Frontline Hospitalist & IM Expert
SecondOpinion.org
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hospitalist, Internal Medicine
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Altered Mental Status, Documentation, Hospital Medicine, Acute Care, Inpatient Care, Standard of Care, Medical Malpractice, Failure to Diagnose, Failure to Treat, Clinical Deterioration, Sepsis, Respiratory Failure, Aspiration, Stroke Complications, Medication Management, Discharge Planning, Readmission, Failure to Escalate, Causation
Board-certified Internal Medicine physician and frontline hospitalist with 12 years of active inpatient experience. Assistant Professor of Medicine and Family Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School. Available for plaintiff and defense case reviews involving hospitalist standard of care, acute care decision-making, clinical deterioration, sepsis, respiratory failure, aspiration pneumonia, stroke complications, altered mental status, discharge safety, medication management, documentation, causation, and damages.
Dr. Sunny Jain actively practices as a hospitalist at Health Alliance Hospital in Leominster, Massachusetts. He reviews cases from the perspective of a current inpatient physician who makes real-time decisions about admission, monitoring, escalation of care, transfer, discharge, medication management, consultant involvement, and response to evolving clinical data.
His medical-legal work focuses on whether the care provided was clinically reasonable under the circumstances, wh...