Board-Certified Anesthesiologist, Active Practice

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Board-certified anesthesiologist (American Board of Anesthesiology) in active clinical practice, providing general anesthesia, regional anesthesia, monitored anesthesia care, procedural sedation, and airway management across hospital operating rooms and ambulatory surgery centers. Because I remain hands-on in the operating room, my opinions reflect the current standard of care. I trained at the University of Miami / Jackson Memorial Hospital — one of the nation's largest teaching hospitals — with subspecialty rotations spanning cardiac, pediatric, ophthalmic, oncologic, and trauma anesthesia at Jackson Memorial, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, the Miami VA, Mount Sinai Medical Center, and Nicklaus Children's Hospital. My practice since has deliberately spanned settings: academic tertiary centers, community hospitals, and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers across multiple health systems, including Broward Health, HCA (Mission Hospital), and Envision (Palms West Hospital). This breadth matters in medical-legal work — the standard of care looks different in a tertiary OR than in an outpatient center, and I have practiced in both. Areas of particular depth include procedural sedation, difficult airway management, perioperative and preoperative evaluation, PACU and postoperative complications, and anesthesia care team practice — including medical direction and CRNA supervision, where the anesthesia record's timeline of who made a decision, and when, can meaningfully shift a standard-of-care analysis. I provide medical record review, standard-of-care and causation analysis, expert reports, affidavits and certificates of merit, and deposition and trial testimony, for both plaintiff and defense counsel. Licensed in 12 states: Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Published in Essence of Anesthesia Practice (Elsevier) with presentations at the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. Member, ASA, since 2009. Every matter receives the same approach: objective, thorough, grounded in the record, with conclusions the evidence actually supports — whichever side that favors.