Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician

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Board-certified Emergency Medicine physician actively practicing in multiple emergency departments across Indiana, with experience in community, academic, trauma-capable, and freestanding emergency department settings. Licensed in Indiana and Ohio and a participant in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (IMLCC), allowing expedited licensure in additional participating states when appropriate. Currently serving as Assistant Medical Director for Ascension St. Vincent Kokomo Emergency Department, where responsibilities include physician leadership, quality improvement initiatives, provider education, and participation on the Sepsis Committee, Stroke Committee, and Emergency Department Stakeholders Committee. These leadership roles provide ongoing experience evaluating emergency department processes, clinical decision-making, documentation, patient safety, and systems-based care. Board Certified in Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM). Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine graduate of Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine with emergency medicine residency training completed through the University of Toledo, including experience in academic, community, pediatric, and Level I trauma center emergency departments. Maintains an active clinical practice caring for patients with the full spectrum of emergency conditions, including cardiac arrest and resuscitation, sepsis and septic shock, stroke, chest pain and acute coronary syndrome, pulmonary embolism, respiratory emergencies, trauma, abdominal emergencies, pediatric emergencies, and other high-acuity presentations requiring rapid diagnosis and time-sensitive treatment decisions. Professional expertise includes emergency department standard of care, emergency department operations, resuscitation, airway management, emergency department documentation, quality improvement, patient flow, and systems-based emergency medicine. Additional experience includes physician and APP education, with invited presentations on pediatric airway management and case-based emergency medicine topics. Committed to maintaining an active clinical practice to ensure opinions reflect contemporary emergency medicine standards, current evidence-based practice, and the realities of modern emergency department decision-making. Available for both plaintiff and defense representation. Services include independent medical record review, pre-litigation merit screening, emergency medicine standard of care analysis, causation analysis, preparation of written expert reports when requested, deposition testimony, and trial testimony. My approach is to provide objective, well-supported opinions based on the medical record, current emergency medicine practice, accepted standards of care, and relevant medical literature when appropriate. I strive to clearly explain complex medical issues in a manner that is understandable to attorneys, judges, and juries while maintaining independence, professionalism, and scientific integrity throughout the review process.