Double Board-Certified Infectious Disease MD

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Dr. Andres Romero is a double-board-certified physician in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, with an active California medical license. He completed Internal Medicine residency training at Yale–New Haven Hospital and Infectious Diseases fellowship training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, with focused experience in immunocompromised patients. He maintains an active clinical practice across hospital, outpatient, wound care, and post-acute settings, caring for patients with complex infectious diseases. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Romero serves as Chief Health Officer at a full-service acute care hospital. He has leadership experience in infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship, peer review, patient safety, quality improvement, regulatory readiness, and evidence-based policy implementation. He works closely with the hospital, Emergency Department, and Intensive Care Unit teams on infection-related protocols, standards of care, and efforts to reduce avoidable complications across the continuum of care. Dr. Romero also serves as core faculty in an Internal Medicine residency program, where he teaches evidence-based medicine, clinical reasoning, and infectious disease management. His active clinical practice, hospital leadership, teaching, and peer review experience provide a strong foundation for medical-legal review of infection-related issues across hospital-based practice, post-acute care services, nursing homes, and skilled nursing facilities. He offers expert consultation and testimony in matters including, but not limited to, sepsis, delayed diagnosis or treatment of infection, hospital-acquired and device-related infections, surgical and post-operative infections, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, infections in immunocompromised patients, food poisoning, infection prevention and control, antibiotic-related complications, and other infection-related standards of care issues.