Behavioral and Social Sciences Expert Witnesses in Massachusetts

Newton Centre, Massachusetts

Internal Medicine, Behavioral and Social Sciences - Internal medicine, primary care, malpractice, medical errors, delayed diagnosis, screening, trauma-informed, trauma, assault, abuse, neglect, maltreatment, violence, victim, survivor, physical exam

Board-certified Internal Medicine physician, practicing primary care in the VA Healthcare System. Earned B.A. and M.D. at Brown University. Completed residency and chief residency at Yale School of Medicine. Teaches at Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine. Highly qualified expert witness for malpractice cases. Subject matter expert in trauma-informed care, an evidence-based framework for supporting trauma survivors that has been adopted by the legal field (see Law360 publications). Dr. Elisseou's curriculum on trauma-informed physical examination--a framework for how clinicians should conduct exams to enhance patient safety--is now being taught at medical schools and healthcare institutions across the U.S.

Boston, Massachusetts

Behavioral and Social Sciences, Police Practices & Procedures - Discrimination, Disparate Impact, Disparate Treatment, Racial Bias, Racial Profiling, Police Benchmarking, Stop Disparities, Search Disparities, Force Disparities, Selective Enforcement, Fourth Amendment, Consent Decree, Pattern & Practice, Racial Justice Act & RIPA, Section 1983, Monell Claim, Econometrics, Statistics, Long Motion

Professional Overview Dr. Matthew B. Ross is a nationally recognized authority in the quantitative analysis of administrative policing data and its application in high-stakes civil rights litigation. As an Associate Professor of Public Policy & Economics at Northeastern University, Dr. Ross’s scholarship bridges the gap between high-level econometric research and practical legal application. He specializes in identifying and mitigating racial and ethnic disparities within the criminal justice system through the implementation of advanced statistical modeling and causal inference. Dr. Ross received his PhD in Economics from the University of Connecticut in 2016. Dr. Ross offers clients a rigorous, peer-reviewed econometric approach designed to withstand the most intensive Daubert and Frye challenges. His reputation is built on a dual ability to maintain scientific integrity while providing a communication style that translates complex statistical findings into a digestible, compelli...

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Behavioral and Social Sciences, Neuropsychology - Eyewitness memory, Emotion and decision making, Memory reliability and accuracy, Anxiety and decision-making under stress, Memory for emotional and traumatic events, Cognitive neuroscience of emotion and memory, Effects of stress on memory encoding and retrieval, Neuroscience of decision-making

Dr. Elizabeth A. Phelps is the Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience at Harvard University and a leading authority on the cognitive neuroscience of memory, emotion, and decision-making. For more than three decades, her research has examined how emotion shapes what people remember and how they decide. She has conducted foundational work on the amygdala's role in fear and emotional memory, and landmark longitudinal studies of memory for the September 11, 2001 attacks that demonstrate how vivid emotional memories drift in accuracy over time even as confidence in them remains high. Dr. Phelps's research is directly relevant to legal matters involving eyewitness memory and identification, the reliability of memory for traumatic or highly emotional events, the effects of stress on encoding and retrieval, suggestibility and the influence of post-event information, the relationship between confidence and accuracy in eyewitness testimony, and decision-making under emotional or hi...