Wilderness Medicine Expert Witnesses

Boulder, Colorado

Family Medicine - Urgent Care, Primary Care, Student Health, College Health, Heart disease, Cancer screening, Chronic medical conditions, Diabetes, Telemedicine, Failure to refer, Failure to diagnose, Wilderness Medicine

Residency trained, board certified Family Medicine physician who is actively practicing in an outpatient setting. Full scope Family Medicine including pediatric, geriatric, acute and chronic medical management. This includes a wide range of conditions including cancer screening, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke care, sports injury, pneumonia, chest pain, abdominal pain, headache, depression, anxiety, pain management. Previous experience in College Health (3 years), Urgent Care (10 years), inpatient medicine (4 years). Current Air Force Reserve officer with active duty service both within the US and abroad.

Jacksonville, Florida

Aquatics Safety, Emergency Medicine - Emergency Medicine, Drowning, Submersion, Lifeguarding, EMS, Wilderness Medicine, Water Safety, drowning resuscitation

I am an academic emergency physician in Florida with a focus in pre-hospital medicine. My primary areas of research and teaching are drowning resuscitation, drowning physiology, and water safety. I have an extensive background in open water lifesaving and teach nationally and internationally on drowning prevention, drowning resuscitation, and lifeguarding; additionally I have been involved in numerous national and international guideline publications. I have published numerous papers and book chapters on these topics and collaborate with an international network of drowning researchers. Within the hospital, my interests are critical care and trauma. I have been providing expert witness services specific to drowning physiology, resuscitation, and water safety since 2018.

Huntington Station, New York

Emergency Medical Services, Fire - EMS Standard of Care, Paramedic, Critical Care Transport, Tactical EMS, Flight Paramedic, EMS Training, EMS Education, Fire Service Operations, Rapid Sequence Intubation, USAR Medicine, Rescue Operations, EMS Protocols, Wilderness Medicine, Hazardous Materials, Quality Assurance, Disaster Medicine, Airway Management

Adam J. Tomko is a nationally certified paramedic with more than 30 years of experience in emergency medical services, fire service operations, tactical medicine, critical care, hazardous materials response, technical rescue, and EMS education. He has served in urban, suburban, hospital-based, fire-based, and tactical EMS systems throughout his career and has extensive experience in advanced life support operations, rapid sequence intubation (RSI), critical care transport principles, and operational medical response. Mr. Tomko currently serves as a Paramedic Firefighter with the Dix Hills Fire Department and has held numerous leadership and instructional positions throughout his career, including CME Coordinator, Field Training Officer, faculty member at SUNY Farmingdale, and instructor for civilian, military, law enforcement, and special operations personnel. He maintains multiple advanced certifications including National Registry Paramedic (NRP), Certified Flight Paramedic (FP-...

Bristol, Rhode Island

Emergency Medicine, Aquatics Safety - Intubation, Rip Current, Heart Attack, Stroke, Sepsis, Delay in Care, Epidural abscess, Aortic dissection, DVT, Pulmonary Embolism, Ischemia, Frostbite, Fracture, Ectopic Pregnancy, Head trauma, Trauma, Wilderness Medicine, Drowning, Sailing injuries, Surfing injury

Andrew Nathanson, MD, FACEP, FAWM I am a Board Certified in Emergency Medicine since 1994, and have an active medical license in RI. I am a Professor emeritus of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, having worked full-time clinically at 2 at hospitals for the last 33 years. One, a busy urban academic trauma center, the other a community hospital. I attended Ivy league College and am professor at an Ivy league medical school. Over my career I have been: Director of Quality Assurance, Chair of Morbidity and Mortality conference, served on the BOD of my large academic group, led a Medical School course, served on Peer-Review committees for insurance companies, taught hundreds of Emergency Medicine Residents, and been recipient of numerous teaching and research awards. I left full-time clinical practice 2/2026 and currently am editing medical journals, writing medical book chapters and lecturing nationally and internationally on topics related to Marin...