Dermatology and Complex Care Expert Witness

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Dr. Alexa Gozali is a board-certified physician practicing full-time medical dermatology, with current board certification in family medicine. Her dual training gives her a distinctive ability to evaluate dermatologic standard of care across outpatient specialty, primary care, urgent care, emergency, and long-term care settings — including cases where skin disease was missed, mismanaged, or inadequately escalated within SNF and nursing home environments. Dr. Gozali is retained in cases where dermatologic findings intersect with broader failures in clinical judgment, care coordination, documentation, and follow-up — settings where a dermatologist alone, or a primary care physician alone, cannot fully address the standard of care at issue. Her full-time dermatology practice keeps her current in diagnostic and procedural standards, while her family medicine board certification allows her to evaluate how dermatologic conditions should have been recognized, escalated, and managed across care settings. She performs detailed medical record review, evaluates standard of care and causation, identifies deviations in clinical judgment and documentation, and provides clear, well-reasoned written opinions with timely turnaround. Dr. Gozali accepts both plaintiff and defense engagements. Representative Case Types Dermatology — Diagnosis & Procedural • Delayed or missed diagnosis of melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and basal cell carcinoma • Failure to biopsy suspicious or changing skin lesions • Misdiagnosis of benign versus malignant lesions • Cryotherapy burns and procedural dermatology injuries • Laser burns and cosmetic dermatology complications • Severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions (SJS/TEN, DRESS, AGEP) Complex Care with Dermatologic Overlap • Skin infections, cellulitis, abscess, and failure to escalate to sepsis recognition • Wound care failures, pressure ulcers, and dermatologic mismanagement in SNF and long-term care • Rash evaluation and inflammatory skin disease in medically complex or institutionalized patients • Delayed dermatology referral from primary care, urgent care, or emergency settings • Documentation, follow-up, and continuity of care failures with dermatologic consequences Dr. Gozali performs detailed medical record review, evaluates standard of care and causation, and identifies deviations in clinical judgment, documentation, referral, and follow-up. She provides clear, well-reasoned written opinions with timely turnaround for record review, reports, depositions, and testimony. Dr. Gozali accepts both plaintiff and defense engagements.