Ventricular Assist Device Expert Witnesses

San Francisco, California

Cardiovascular Disease - Pulmonary Hypertension, Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Right Heart Failure, Right Ventricular Failure , Right Ventricular Dysfunction , Heart Failure, Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Ventricular Assist Device, Heart Transplantation

I am a board-certified cardiologist with 25 years of post-training clinical experience and subspecialty expertise in pulmonary hypertension, right heart failure, advanced heart failure, heart transplantation, cardiogenic shock, and advanced echocardiography. I am the founder and Director of the Regional Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, established in 2015, which operates a hub-and-spoke model providing comprehensive PH care across San Francisco, Roseville, and Sacramento. I am a recognized national thought leader in pulmonary vascular disease, with clinical and academic expertise spanning all five WHO classification groups of pulmonary hypertension. I have contributed to international consensus guidelines on both the perioperative management of patients with pulmonary hypertension and on pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease (WHO Group 2). My clinical training includes a cardiology fellowship at Mayo Clinic Arizona and an Advanced...

Washington, District Of Columbia

Pediatric Cardiology, Statistics - Cardiomyopathy, Myocarditis, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Genomics, Heart Transplantation, Pediatric Heart Transplantation, Cardiovascular Genomics, Ventricular Assist Device, Cell-Free DNA, Mechanical Circulatory Support, ECMO, Heart Failure, Immunology, Translational Research, Pediatric Heart Failure

• Board-certified pediatric cardiologist with subspecialty expertise in advanced heart failure, myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, mechanical circulatory support, and pediatric heart transplantation. • Physician–scientist with extensive experience in translational biomarker research, including donor-derived cell-free DNA, microRNA, and molecular phenotyping in thoracic transplantation. • Experienced in the clinical management of high-acuity pediatric heart failure, myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, VAD, and transplant patients, as well as development of pediatric transplant programs, multidisciplinary transplant systems design, and interpretation of advanced transplant diagnostics. • Active investigator and collaborator in multicenter transplant and biomarker research initiatives. • Experience performing detailed medical record review and case analysis in support of medicolegal consultation involving pediatric cardiovascular and transplant-related care.

Tallahassee, Florida

Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiovascular Disease - Aortic dissection, ECMO, mechanical circulatory support, ventricular assist device, TAVR (traanscatheter aortic valve replacement), CABG, surgery, shock, heart failure, aortic, mitral, tricuspid, aneurysm, cardiac, cardiothoracic, cardiovascular, heart

I am a very experienced, well published, well-versed cardiac surgeon who performs the full spectrum of cardiac surgery. My results are excellent. I have held many academic positions. I am well published in cardiac surgery, with over 80 national and international publications in the field of cardiothoracic surgery. I serve at the editorial board of the Aorta journal and I am reviewer of many prestigious cardiothoracic surgery journals. I frequently present at National and International meetings and I am asked to provide expert opinion in the field of cardiothoracic surgery.