Medical Management Expert Witnesses in North Carolina

Concord, North Carolina

Nursing Administration, Medical Management - Medication errors, patient falls, restraints, restrictive interventions, central lines, infection prevention, infection control, CLABSI, CAUTI, pressure ulcers, bedsores, informed consent, HIPAA, staffing, delegation, scope of care, sedation, endoscopy, radiology, critical care

I am a Registered Nurse leader with a Master’s Degree and professional certification in Nursing Leadership. With strong bedside and management experience in Critical Care and procedural departments, I have dedicated many years to ensuring quality and compliance in high-performing patient care areas. This includes addressing patient care issues such as patient falls, pressure ulcer prevention, physical restraints, infection prevention, and procedural sedation; regulatory issues such as HIPAA, scope of care, delegation, and informed consent; and evaluating the circumstances around adverse events such as medication errors, patient misidentification, and incorrect execution of orders. I have precepted new hires, developed onboarding programs, and been extensively involved with hiring, performance evaluations, disciplinary steps, and maintaining a Just Culture. I am comfortable and experienced with documentation audits and medical record chart review. I have experience being deposed and ...

Fayetteville , North Carolina

Emergency Medicine, Medical Management - Quality of care, Patient Safety, Risk Management, Internal Medicine, Peer Review, Emergency Medicine, Accidents, EMTALA, Standard of Care, Malpractice, Medical decision making, Liability, Sentinel Events, Regulatory Compliance, Clinical governance, Patient safety protocol, Medical necessity, Informed consent, Negligence, Compliance

Dr. Ruzek s a board-certified emergency physician and experienced medical expert witness with extensive leadership experience in healthcare quality, patient safety, and clinical operations. He currently serves as Chief Quality Officer for a regional health system in North Carolina, where he oversees enterprise-wide quality improvement initiatives, regulatory compliance, peer review, risk reduction, and patient safety strategy. In addition to active clinical practice in emergency medicine, Dr. Ruzek has provided medical-legal consulting and expert witness services involving emergency care, standard of care, patient safety, clinical documentation, causation analysis, systems-based failures, and quality-related healthcare litigation. His unique combination of frontline clinical experience and executive healthcare leadership provides attorneys with both detailed clinical insight and a broader systems-level understanding of healthcare delivery and medical decision-making. Dr. Ruzek is ...