Mental Health Expert Witnesses in New York

Thornwood, New York

Family Medicine, Preventive Medicine - Internal Medicine, Primary Care, Obesity, Metabolic Health, Mental Health, Telemedicine, Disability, Osteopathic Manipulation, Injury, Athletic Clearance, Preoperative Clearance, Race, Geriatrics, Foster Care, Adoption, Short Term Rehabilitation, Hospital Inpatient Care, Covid

I am a board certified Family Medicine Physician licensed in New York with 14+ years of clinical experience in internal medicine, family medicine, outpatient, emergency, urgent, short term rehabilitation and hospital inpatient care. I am in full time practice and well-regarded as an expert in primary care, preventive medicine with a broad scope of practice e.g. cardiometabolic health, obesity treatment, cancer screening, cardiac risk stratification, behavioral health treatment, pre-operative clearance, general health screening, school and employment health screening. As a medical staff attending physician I have conducted thousands of well and sick examinations of adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations. As a family medicine trained physician I also have a wide scope of knowledge including general pediatric, OB/gyn standard of care practices. With my full scope medical expertise, formal education in writing and publishing experience I am uniquely suited to conduct medical exper...

New York

Psychiatry, Psychology - Suicide/Malpractice/Wrongful Death, Standard of Care--Mental Health, Personal Injury, Priest Abuse, False Confession, Competency to Confess, Criminal Responsibility, Sexual Harassment, PTSD, Competency to Waive Rights, Insanity/NGRI, Competency to Stand Trial

BACKGROUND. Dr. Bill Geis is an experienced clinician, researcher, medical school professor and forensic expert--with a career that spans more than 40 years. He holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Kansas. He did a Psychiatry Department Internship at the Indiana University School of Medicine and a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Menninger Foundation, which is now in collaboration with Baylor Medical School in Houston, Texas. His clinical, teaching, and administrative experience is broad and deep, with experience in virtually all mental health conditions and treatments. FORENSIC: His career as a forensic expert includes over 850 consultations in the areas of suicide wrongful death, standard of care, personal injury, criminal defenses and other issues as outlined below. His extensive teaching and clinical training expertise enhances his ability to provide competent and non-jargon-filled depositions and court testimony. He is able to communicate effe...

New York

Psychology, Mental Health - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Emotional Distress, Trauma, Dissociation, Sexual Abuse, Assault, PTSD, Harassment, Neglect, Vicarious Traumatization, Burnout, Depression, Anxiety

Dr. Sasha Berger is a Columbia-trained, licensed clinical psychologist with over 15 years of experience in clinical practice, supervision, and research, with particular expertise in trauma, dissociation, and posttraumatic stress, including Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Dissociative Identity Disorder. She is fully licensed in NY and NJ, and a member of the National Registry of Health Psychologists. She has a wide range of experience across multiple settings, including hospital outpatient/inpatient care, college counseling centers, community mental health, and outpatient/inpatient neuropsychological assessment. She has held appointments at Columbia University Medical School, City University of New York, Mount Sinai Medical Center and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies’ Integrative Trauma Studies Program. Throughout her academic roles, she has taught coursework on trauma and provided clinical supervision and consultation to Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) student...

New York

Emergency Medicine, Nurse - prehospital care, behavioral health, vision loss, suicide , delayed treatment, stroke fallouts, falls, Nurse UCLA, missed sepsis, emergency room boarding patient, triage errors, mental health, restraints, behavioral detainment, Safety injury prevention, failure to rescue, wrongful death, nurse standard of care, causation analysis

Kim Pimentel, BSN, RN, MICN, CPI Instructor Emergency Nursing Expert Witness | Triage | Sepsis | Stroke | Patient Safety | Emergency Department Negligence I am an Emergency Department Clinical Nurse, Triage Nurse, and Mobile Intensive Care Nurse (MICN) with more than 23 years of experience practicing at a nationally recognized academic medical center and Level I Trauma Center. My practice focuses on emergency department standards of care, patient safety, triage decision-making, and identification of preventable failures resulting in serious injury, disability, vision loss, neurological impairment, cardiac arrest, or death. I provide expert analysis involving: • Sepsis misdiagnosis, delayed recognition, delayed treatment, and failure-to-rescue events • Missed stroke diagnosis, delayed stroke activation, delayed imaging, and neurological deterioration • Central Retinal Artery Occlusion (CRAO), acute glaucoma, elevated intraocular pressure, retinal emergencies, and preventable visio...