Blood Transfusion Expert Witnesses in Louisiana

This expert has almost a decade of experience as a physician assistant. He earned his BS in electrical engineering from SUNY at Buffalo and his MS in clinical medicine sciences from Barry University. He is a licensed physician assistant in the state of Texas and is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Academy of Physician Assistants. He previously served as an internal medicine physician assistant at First Texas Hospital, as a physician assistant at 1st Class Urgent Care Center, and as a physician assistant in the emergency room at PrimeCare Emergency Center. This expert is currently a physician assistant in the division of critical care and pulmonology at a hospital in Texas.

This expert is a certified life care planner and nurse consultant with clinical background in nursing, orthopedics, rehabilitation and critical care medicine. She has extensive background in evaluation of complex and long term needs of clients who have suffered catastrophic injuries. She holds expertise in health care quality and risk management, health care administration, and regulatory compliance. She has been a certified life care planner since 2010.

This board certified general surgeon has been practicing medicine for over 20 years. Fellowship trained at one of the nation's top hospitals, this expert is both a General Surgeon, Surgical Intensivist and an Associate Professor of Surgery, making her highly qualified to review the standard of care provided to the plaintiff.

This highly qualified expert is a board certified neurologist with a specialization in Neurocritical Care. He received his Master's degree from Saint Louis University and completed his internship training at both the Patna Medical College Hospital in India and Westlake Hospital. He pursued residency training at the University of Florida and completed fellowship training at Washington University. He has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for the Neurocritical Care Journal. Currently, he serves as an assistant professor of stroke and neurocritical care at a prominent Missouri university.

This highly qualified psychiatric pharmacology expert received a BS in Bacteriology from the Univeristy of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and earned his doctor of pharmacy (Pharm.D.) at the University of Southern California (USC). He had a National Institute of Mental Health (NMH) training fellowship in Psychiatric Pharmacy at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, and was recruited to join the faculty of the highly-ranked The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy. He is Board Certified in Psychiatric Pharmacy (BCPP) by the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties. He serves on the Board of Directors for the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists Foundation and is a founding member of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP). During his 37 years career, this expert has provided clinical care and education in a variety of settings and treatment roles. He teaches didactic and experiential courses for Pharm.D. students and graduate courses for MS and PhD post-Pharm.D. students. He authored and successfully discussed with members of the Texas Legislature the creation of a clinical research unit at San Antonio State Hospital (SASH) that was funded by the Texas Legislature and jointly governed by the UT Austin College of Pharmacy, UT Health Science Center San Antonio Department of Psychiatry and SASH. This expert continues to publish scholarly articles and is regularly invited to do scholarly and lay presentations around the country on a variety of pharmacy and mental health related topics. He was the Senior Founding Editor for a major mental health publication. He edited Psychopharmacology Update newsletter from 1998-2002, and edited two editions of a compendium based upon this newsletter, Psychopharmacology Desktop Reference, published by Manisses Communications Group in 1999 and 2002. He has received several awards reflecting his accomplishments as a clinician, teacher, and researcher.

This highly qualified expert is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He received his MD from Texas Tech School of Medicine. His post-doctoral education continued at the University of Florida at Jacksonville where he developed a passion for Minimally Invasive Surgery. Following residency he entered private practice in Palm Coast, Florida where his interests expanded to include robotic surgery until his return to Texas as an Associate Professor to help rebuild and expand the Department of Surgery. His area of interest focuses on minimally invasive foregut and colorectal surgery.

This highly qualified pharmacist has extensive experience in her field. She is a board certified critical care pharmacist and received her AAS in chemistry, then her BA in chemistry from the University of Washington, and her Pharm.D from the University of Washington School of Pharmacy. This expert is a licensed pharmacist in TX and WA and is certified by the Washington State Pharmacy Association in immunizations, and in basic life support and pediatric advanced life support. Formerly, she has served as a pharmacist at Kelley-Ross Pharmacy and the MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital. Additionally, this expert has held the role of clinical pharmacist at Woodland Heights Hospital. Currently, she is a clinical pharmacist at a TX hospital.

This highly-qualified expert has over 15 years of experience in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep disorders medicine. He earned his MBBS from the University of Nairobi in Kenya before moving to the United States to complete his residency in internal medicine at Northwestern University and two fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine: one in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep disorders medicine and the other in lung transplant medicine. This expert is triple board-certified in internal medicine, critical care medicine, and pulmonary disease. He has formerly served as the co-medical director of respiratory therapy at National Park Community College, the co-medical director of the ICU at Mercy Hospital, the attending physician for pulmonary, critical care, and sleep disorders at Mercy Clinic, the medical director at CHI St. Vincent Sleep Disorders Center, and the chief of staff at CHI St. Vincent Hospital. This expert currently serves as the attending physician of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep disorders at an Arkansas hospital.

This expert has over 45 years of experience in nursing, focusing on surgical nursing and post-surgery recovery. She earned her BS in nursing at Pan American University, her MS in public health nursing at the University of Texas Brownsville, and her EdD with a focus in health science education at the University of Houston. She has held numerous positions in various facilities across Texas with a consistent focus on surgical nursing and nurse education. She recently transitioned from clinical work to a consulting role. In her current position as a nurse consultant, she consults and presents on topics related to surgery recovery and pain management for patients following surgery.