Respiratory Distress Expert Witnesses

Loma Linda, California

Pediatrics, Hospitalist - Pediatric Hospitalist, outpatient general pediatrics, Newborn care, jaundice, kernicterus, Newborn resuscitation, Inpatient pediatrics, respiratory distress, viral infections, sepsis, pneumonia, obesity

Dr. Abu-Zahra has 8+ years of experience as a practicing pediatric hospitalist in the Inland Empire in both community and academic hospital settings. Dr. Abu-Zahra provides consultation for chart reviews, expert witness depositions, and testimony. Dr. Abu-Zahra is double board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) in general pediatrics and pediatric hospitalist medicine and is a fellow of the American Association of Pediatrics (FAAP). Dr. Abu-Zahra graduated from Boston University School of Medicine and completed his residency at University of Maryland in Baltimore. He works in an academic children's hospital and a community hospital with newborn nursery, inpatient pediatrics and ER consults. Furthermore, Dr. Abu-Zahra works full time as a hospitalist in a tertiary care academic center and half time as an outpatient pediatrician in a clinic affiliated with a family residency program. Dr. Abu-Zahra is the former chair of pediatrics at two of the community hospitals. H...

Venice , Florida

Pediatric Hospitalist, Pediatrics - Seizures, Hip Dysplasia, Newborn resuscitation, Bronchiolitis, Jaundice, Parental Rights, Child Abuse, Autism, Pediatric Hospitalist, Sepsis, Pneumonia, Dehydration, Munchausen by proxy, Fever, Kawasaki, Respiratory distress, Asthma, Pediatrician, Meningitis, Vaccines

I am an actively practicing pediatrician and pediatric hospitalist with 30 years of experience in caring for children. Top US medical school- Washington University in St. Louis educated and trained. Double board certified in both General Pediatrics and Pediatric Hospital Medicine. Experienced expert witness at both deposition and trial. Extensive teaching experience with medical students, interns and residents most recently as a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine. I also practice general pediatrics and care for children in outpatient clinics. Many of my colleagues shifted to either inpatient or outpatient clinical care when pediatric hospitalist programs were created. Since I have worked in both of these patient care settings, I have extensive expertise related to standards of care in each type of location as well as with the transitions that occur between hospital and home. I am willing to evaluate medical care for pediatric patients ages birth to approximately 20 years of ...

Rockville, Maryland

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics - sepsis, cardiac arrest, resuscitation, pediatrics, critical care, pneumonia, respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, newborn, brain injury, infection, respiratory distress, stridor, heart failure, meningitis, child abuse, bronchiolitis, asthma, shock, airway obstruction

I am a practicing pediatric intensive care physician. I also practice pediatric sedation. I have practiced pediatric intensive care since 1989. I am professor of Pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine. In the past I have held the positions of Chief Medical Officer at St. Christopher Hospital for Children, Director of the Pediatric ICU Director of Pediatric Inpatient Services and Vice Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, and in these roles I have dealt with the Standard of Care for pediatricians and pediatric specialists. I am board certified in Pediatrics and in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and am a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. I have been serving as expert witness for over 25 years. My areas of expertise are acute, emergency and critical care pediatrics and pediatric sedation.

Farmington Hills, Michigan

Emergency Medicine - Myocardial Infarction, Cerebrovascular Accident, Respiratory Distress, Abdominal Pain, Trauma, Pediatric Emergencies, Fractures and Sprains, Sepsis, Life Care Planning

Dr. Kelman is a residency trained and Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician for over 30 years. Throughout these years, he has experience with the entire spectrum of serious presentations, from trauma to sepsis, MI, strokes, respiratory distress, and cardiac arrest. Whether young or old, male or female, dealing with all types of presentations. He is a Founding Member and Fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, as well as a Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine, with active licenses in Michigan, New York, and Florida. Experience with expert testimony in court, including sexual assault case as well as child custody case. He is the recipient of the 2019 Physician Excellence Award at Ascension Macomb Hospital. He also has 30 years of Occupational Medicine Experience.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Emergency Medicine - Medical Resuscitation, Respiratory Distress, Airway Management, Sepsis, Shock, Allergic Reactions, Adverse Medication Side Effects, Traumatic Injuries, Blood Transfusion, Stroke, Seizures, Neurocognitive Emergencies, Pre-Operative Surgical Emergencies, Heart Attack, Unstable Cardiac Dysrhythmias

Highly trained in the global and critical medical care of both routine and very sick patients. Board certified in Emergency Medicine, having completed residency training in the busiest ER in the United States. Fellowship-trained in Health Policy, having lived and worked on Capitol Hill. Actively practicing Emergency Medicine in Ohio, licensed to practice in Ohio and Texas, while simultaneously involved in the training of medical students and resident physicians. Extensive experience in public speaking, broadcast and print journalism, and leadership in organized medicine.

Springboro, Ohio

Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine - Geriatric, Respiratory Distress, Cardiac Arrest, Sepsis, Allergic reaction, drowning, environmental medicine, trauma, Stroke, hemorrhage, seizures, urologic emergencies, heart attack, cardiac emergencies, infection, medication error, blood transfusion, surgical emergency, myocarditis, pulmonary

Highly trained academic / clinical board certified emergency medicine physician well versed in critical care, rural medicine and ultrasound application. Academic faculty at Wright State University where he prepares the next generation of EM physicians through bedside teaching, medical lecturing, and scholarly research. Dr. Marsh also serves within the Air National Guard as a Critical Care Air Transport ( CCAT) Physician. He is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and is actively practicing Emergency Medicine throughout Ohio and also internationally with the Cleveland Clinic.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Emergency Medicine - Emergency, Trauma, Toxicology, Respiratory distress, Cardiac, Standard of care, Stroke, Procedural education, Airway management, Wound management, Sepsis, Critical care, Social Media, Education, Procedures, Central venous access, Traumatic injury, Substance use, Drug use, Mental health

I am a board-certified emergency Medicine physician with over 15 years of clinical experience at a high acuity academic Level 1 trauma center as well as multiple community emergency departments in the Philadelphia region. I graduated from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and went on to complete an Emergency Medicine residency at Temple Hospital. I then worked as faculty at Temple Hospital with a focus on resident education, airway and procedural management, and medical simulation. I currently continue to work there as an adjunct professor while also working at several Philadelphia-area community hospitals. I have extensive experience with pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients, am published in several Emergency Medicine textbooks and journals, and routinely speak at national medical conferences.

Greenville, South Carolina

Nurse - Triage, Cardiac Arrest, Trauma, Stroke, Heart Attack, Respiratory Distress, Respiratory Arrest, Sepsis, Obstetric Emergencies, Behavioral Health Emergencies, Drug Overdoses, Anaphylaxis, Acute Coronary Syndrome, STEMI, Pediatric Emergencies, Gastrointestinal Emergencies, Seizure, Airway, Spinal Emergencies, Emergency Severity Index ESI

Kelsey Ridgeway is a board-certified emergency nurse with a decade of experience in the emergency setting, including work at community hospitals, a Level 1 trauma center, a comprehensive stroke center, and a primary PCI/chest pain center. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of South Carolina-Upstate in 2016, where she received the Academic Excellence Award and won first place at the USC Upstate Research Symposium for her article on family-witnessed resuscitation. Since graduation, Kelsey has practiced in both teaching and community hospital settings. She has been board-certified in emergency nursing since 2020 and holds certifications in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC), Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC), and CPI Crisis Intervention. She also serves as a TNCC instructor, teaching both didactic content and practical skills. She is...

Falls Church, Virginia

Pediatric Hospitalist - Febrile Infant, Asthma, Bronchiolitis, Pediatric hospitalist, Pneumonia, Respiratory distress, Viral infections, Meningitis, Kawasaki, Hyperbilirubinemia, Newborn, Hospital Medicine, Pediatrics, Seizure, Medication overdose

Dr. Gupta is double Board Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatric Hospital Medicine and General Pediatrics and is licensed in Virginia and DC. She has over 8 years of clinical experience and completed an additional two-year fellowship training in Pediatric Hospital Medicine, which is not required to be a hospitalist. Dr. Gupta currently provides pediatric care at a large academic children’s hospital in Northern Virginia with large patient volumes and high acuity patients and also provides pediatric urgent care via telemedicine for Virginia and DC. Alongside her clinical duties, Dr. Gupta is a patient safety and quality reviewer. She regularly assesses adherence to standards of care, identifies delays in diagnosis and treatment, evaluates documentation quality, and reconstructs timelines for readmissions, morbidity and mortality cases, and peer reviews at her institution. Dr. Gupta is an award winning educator who teaches medical students, residents, and fellow...

Salem, Virginia

Emergency Medicine - Medical Resuscitation, Respiratory Distress, Airway Management, Sepsis, Shock, Allergic Reactions, Adverse Medication Side Effects, Traumatic Injuries, Blood Transfusion, Stroke, Seizures, Neurocognitive Emergencies, Pre-Operative Surgical Emergencies, Heart Attack, Unstable Cardiac Dysrhythmias

After residency training at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston Salem, NC, Dr. Heitz earned board certification in EM and spent 10 years working in Level 1 Trauma centers in Ohio and Virginia prior to his current position at a busy, high-acuity community emergency department in Salem, Virginia. He has spent 13 years training medical students and residents in emergency medicine as well as other specialties, specifically performing high-fidelity simulated cases to prepare physicians for the care of critically ill and injured patients. During his time in academic medicine, he gained extensive public speaking experience.