Diabetes Expert Witnesses in Illinois

This expert in health and fitness has decades of academic and industry experience in personal fitness training. He began his career completing a BS at Southeast Missouri State in Health Management and then continued on to complete a Master degree in Exercise Physiology where he graduated summa cum laude. For four years prior to starting his PhD, this expert worked as a clinical exercise physiologist during which time he conducted fitness assessments and provided dietary/exercise recommendations to individuals, including those with chronic medical conditions. He currently holds a PhD in Exercise Science, having completed a dissertation on the effects of obesity on skeletal muscle protein degradation. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA-CSCS) and is certified as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist by ACSM. He active as an assistant professor at a major US university in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion. He has published several papers concerning exercise interventions for those with chronic diseases. He teaches courses in Nutrition and Physical Fitness, Exercise Testing and Prescription, Skeletal Muscle Physiology, and is preparing to offer a course focused on exercise interventions for those with chronic disease.

This highly-qualified nephrology expert has demonstrated experience in all aspects of care for patients with kidney diseases–including transplant, kidney stones, hypertension, and dialysis–in both an inpatient and outpatient setting. He earned his MD from Grigore T Popa School of Medicine in Romania, as well as a MS in health care delivery from Dartmouth's Institute for Health Policy at Geisel School of Medicine. After earning his MD, this expert completed a pathology internship at the University of Missouri followed by an internal medicine residency and nephrology fellowship at the University of Kentucky. In addition to being board certified in both internal medicine and nephrology, he is certified as a hypertension specialist and as a physician executive. He is active in his field, both as an author of over 50 scientific publications and as a fellow of the American Society of Nephrology. He formerly served as an assistant professor at both the University of Arkansas and the University of Iowa, as well as the director of the University of Iowa's Home Dialysis Program. Currently, this expert is a clinical professor and director of the Dialysis Program at a university and an attending nephrologist at a medical center, all in Iowa.