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This highly qualified and certified rheumatologist has extensive experience having practiced for over 13 years. Earning his MD from University of Ioannina Medical School in Greece with summa cum laude honors, he went on to serve as a Research Scholar at Northwestern University College of Medicine. He then completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Brown University’s Rhode Island Hospital while his Rheumatology Fellowship took place at the Hospital for Special Surgery and New York Presbyterian/Cornell Campus. The expert has extensive expertise in the treatment of autoimmune disorders encompassing, but not limited to, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic arthritis, Sjogren’s syndrome and Vasculitis. He has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals and has served as Clinical Investigator in multiple, international, randomized controlled trials. He has served as an ad hoc reviewer, editorial board member and Lead Editor in peer-reviewed rheumatology journals. Formerly he served as Chief of Rheumatology at Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center and as a professor at New Jersey Medical School. Currently he acts as the Associate Chief of Rheumatology at a major New York medical center while concurrently teaching at a major New York medical college.

This expert on Clinical Genetics obtained his BS in Psychology from Brooklyn College, Pre-med certificate from Hofstra University, and MD from the Ross University School of Medicine. She completed her Residency in Pediatrics at the Winthrop University Hospital and her Fellowship in Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. She is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Clinical Genetics and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Medical Genetics. She has 4 Publications and is currently an Attending Physician of Genetics at a top tier university.

This expert has an extensive background in Obstetrics and Gynecology that includes 8 distinctive awards and 6 peer-reviewed publications. He earned his BA in biology from Yeshiva University and his MD and MBE from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Mount Sinai Medical Center and is a licensed physician in FL. To date, he holds memberships with the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society, the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists, and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Currently, he is a volunteer assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at a university in Florida. He is also serving as a reproductive genetics fellow at a hospital in Florida.

This qualified expert earned his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MD from Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital and his fellowships in rheumatology and clinical immunology at Yale University School of Medicine. In addition to being board certified in internal medicine and rheumatology, this expert has extensive experience in clinical work, academia, and the pharmacy industry. Early in his career, he served as an Internist and Chief of Internal Medicine at Westchester Community Health Plan and Chief of Rheumatology at VAMC-Syracuse. He was a Professor at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in the Department of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. This expert was also the Medical Director of Immunology at Bristol-Myers Squibb's Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Vice President of NovoNordisk's Medical-Science Inflammation Department, and Vice President of Immunology and Rheumatology at Parexel International. Currently, he is a Clinical Professor at a medical school in New Jersey and is President of a firm that provides consultation services in immunology and rheumatology focusing on molecules in development.

This expert is a psychologist who studies the effect of sexually explicit media. His research is widely respected and has been cited in the formulation of public policy in multiple jurisdictions. He earned his PhD in Social Psychology and Personality from the University of California, Los Angeles. An active member of the International Academy of Sex Research and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, he has published extensively in his field. Having formerly served on the faculty of the University of Manitoba and the University of Michigan, he is now a full professor of Psychology and Communication Studies at a prominent California university. Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the American Psychological Association. Quoted in many media outlets including recently in New York Times in article about what Experts Know About Rape

This well-published and highly distinguished expert earned her BS and MS in Biology from Peking University in China. She then went on to complete her PhD in Genetics from Iowa State University. She pursued two Postdoctoral Fellowships in Biological Chemistry and Medicine from UC Irvine. This expert is active in her field as a member of several professional organizations, including the American Association of Cancer Research, the Society for Melanoma Research, the American Society of Preventive Oncology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. She has been honored with a number of awards, including the Presidential Research Award from the Chinese Academy of Science, the Research Excellence Award from Iowa State and the Faculty Research Award in Medicine from UC-Irvine. She is a prolific researcher in her field with over 30 peer-reviewed publications. Formerly, she was an Assistant Professional Researcher of Epidemiology and Medicine as well as an Assistant Project Scientist of Medicine at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. This expert is currently an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at a Top-Tier Medical School.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience in pediatric neurology. He received his DEC in health sciences from Marianopolis College before earning his BSc and MDCM in physiology from McGill University. He subsequently completed an internship and residency in pediatrics, as well as a neurology residency and fellowships in EMG, EEG, and elevated potentials at Montreal Children's Hospital. He also completed a research fellowship in molecular/medical genetics at Royal Victoria Hospital. This expert is board-certified in neurology with a special qualification in child neurology. He is also certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners. He is active in his field as a member of several organizations, including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, the International Child Neurology Association, and the American Academy of Neurology. He is also highly involved in research, having authored hundreds of peer-reviewed journal articles. He has formerly served as an associate professor of neurology and pediatrics at McGill University, as well as the director of pediatric neurology at Montreal Children's Hospital. Currently, this expert is a full professor of neurology and pediatrics and the chair of pediatrics at a distinguished medical school in Quebec. He is also the pediatrician-in-chief at a children's hospital in Quebec.

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in the fields of cancer, biomedical research, pre-clinical animal research and ethics, and drug development, among others. After earning his BS from East Carolina University and his MS from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, this expert completed his PhD in genetics and molecular biology at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He also went on to complete his MBA in biosciences management at North Carolina State University. This expert is an active member of the American Association of Immunologists, the Society for Leukocyte Biology, and the American Association for Cancer Research. In addition to being extensively published, he is the current associate editor of Frontiers in Immunology and Frontiers in Microbiology. Further, this expert has been engaged in a variety of university program development and research operations leadership roles throughout his career. Among his former roles, he has served as a research analyst with the Center for Human Genetics at Duke University Medical Center, a research associate for microbiology and immunology at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and as an assistant professor of inflammatory diseases at Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. This expert currently maintains two assistant professorships at a public medical school in Virginia, in addition to his primary role as an associate professor of inflammatory diseases at a veterinary medicine education school.

This highly-qualified expert has 14 years of experience in the field of biopharmaceutical development, having earned her BS in biology from the University of North Carolina and her PhD in genetics from the University of California at San Francisco. Her work focuses on drug development with a particular focus on gene and cell therapies, including those with the following elements: AAV, Adenovirus, CRISPR, Zfn, Endonuclease, CAR-T, mRNA, LNP, Lentivirus, HSPC. She has worked in positions such as principal consultant for Halloran Consulting Group, the founder and CEO of Tremont Therapeutics, the senior director of Shire PLC, and the executive director of CRISPR Therapeutics. She is also involved in research in her field as an author of several scientific articles. This expert currently works as the principal at a drug development consulting company in Massachusetts.

This highly qualified expert has 20 years of experience in his field. He earned his MD from Mahatma Gandhi Mission's Medical College. He then went on to complete a residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai, a fellowship in rheumatology at Louisiana State University, and a second fellowship in echocardiography at DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center. He is a member of multiple medical associations including the American College of Physicians and the American College of Rheumatology. He was formerly a hospitalist at Eastern Maine Medical Center, among other hospitals and clinics, and an assistant professor of medicine at Texas Tech University. He is currently a rheumatologist at an allergy and rheumatology clinic in Texas.

This highly qualified expert currently serves as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Affiliate Faculty of the Molecular Genetics Department at a major medical university. In addition to a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Duke University Medical Center, he received a B.S. in Physiology and Neurobiology and a M.S. in Developmental Neurobiology from the University of Maryland. A member of both the Society for Developmental Biology and the American Society for Human Genetics, he has authored several publications on developmental biology. He has over 15 years of experience in the genetics of congenital defects.

This highly qualified, fellowship trained expert has over twenty years of experience in anesthesiology. She is a member of numerous anesthesiology societies, and has held various leadership positions in many of them. She has been presented with multiple awards for her research on obstetric anesthesia, and has over seventy peer reviewed articles and published abstracts on various anesthesiology topics. In her current position as a professor, this highly qualified expert has focused her educational vision around the need to develop a new division of Obstetric Anesthesia at a Washington State medical center. With the goal to build a strong clinical anesthesia program for a particularly high-risk obstetric service providing care to the sickest population in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, she recruited academic anesthesiologists, each with specific skills and expertise, to train obstetric anesthesiologists for a career in academic medicine. She was able to achieve this goal by demonstrating innovative leadership and mentorship, and being a role model as a clinical educator.

This highly qualified and double board certified Rheumatology and Allergy expert received his medical education at some the most highly regarded institutions in the country. He is a member of multiple professional organizations including the American College of Rheumatology. He is a former instructor of Medicine at New York University. He is currently Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at a major medical university. He has been in clinical practice for over 40 years, now only part-time. He has been involved in medical practice cases and other medical-legal issues. He has extensive experience in reviewing disability and worker's compensation cases.

This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of combined academic and field experience in Cytogenetics. She holds a master's degree in biology and a doctoral degree in human genetics, from highly respected institutions. She is a member of various genetics professional societies including the American Society of Human Genetics. She has been invited to lecture on topics such as Chromosome Translocation and is published in respected journals such as "Genes, Chromosomes, and Cancer". She earned her BA at Reed College, M.S. in Population Biology at Stanford University, and PhD in Human Genetics at the University of Maryland at Baltimore.

This expert is one of the nation's leading virologists. He earned a Masters in Virology from Queen Elizabeth Medical School in England and a Phd in Microbiology from Rutgers University. He serves as a member of the editorial board for numerous top journals in the virology space, and has participated in more than 100 internationally invited lectures in the field of virology. Currently, this expert is the director of a top university virology center and a professor of molecular genetics and microbiology.

This extremely qualified expert is board certified in internal medicine and rheumatology and has been practicing for 39+ years. He completed both his internship and residency trainings at Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center and his fellowship training in theumatology and immunology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a past president of the Scleroderma Clinical Trials Consortium and a fellow at the American College of Physicians, the American College of Angiology and the American College of Rheumatology. He has published 235+ peer-reviewed journal articles and serves in the editorial boards of 13 renowned medical journals. He lectures both nationally and internationally and has been listed in "Who's Who in America" for 29 consecutive years, as well as in "Best Doctors in America" for 24 consecutive years. He is the former director of the Scleroderma Program and the former chief of rheumatology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and the former director of the Clinical Research Center at the NJ Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. He is also the former director of the Scleroderma Program at the University of Michigan. Currently, he is the founder and principal of a major scleroderma consulting firm.

This highly qualified, board certified in Canada and the USA, exceptionally published expert earned his Bachelor's and Medical Degree from McGill University. This expert then did his internship and residencies in Pediatrics and Neurology at the Montreal Children's Hospital. This expert then completed a Post Doctoral Research Fellowship in Molecular and Medical Genetics at McGill University. This expert is a member of numerous medical societies, has earned numerous awards, including the Hower Award of the Child Neurology Society which is leading award in pediatric neurology. He is constantly invited to lecture at international conferences. This expert is exceptionally well published having authored 250 peer-reviewed papers, 2 books, 68 book chapters/invited lectures and 194 abstracts. This expert's expertise in research has even allowed him to serve as a reviewer for numerous prestigious medical journals. This expert previously served as Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurology at Montreal Children's Hospital-McGill University Health Center. This expert currently holds many positions at a Leading University Hospital Center in Canada, serving as Full Professor in the Department of Neurology/ Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, Attending Staff physician in the Division of Pediatric Neurology, Pediatrician-in-Chief, and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics. He has extensive experience in medico-legal cases focusing on causation of disability (primarily intra-partum asphyxia), disability profile, prognosis and life expectancy. He has been involved in close to 400 cases over the past 25 years with an 80/20 split between defense and plaintiff work. Genuinely enjoys this type of work and engaging with legal counsel.

This highly qualified expert obtained his BA from UCSD. He then went on to complete an MD and PhD at UCSD. He completed a residency in Pediatrics at North Carolina Memorial Hospital and a fellowship in Human Genetics and Pediatrics at Yale University. He is a member of numerous professional societies such as the American Society of Human Genetics and the Society for The Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism. He is a reviewer for multiple professional journals such as Pediatric Research and Journal of Pediatrics. Currently, he is a staff pediatrician at 3 children's hospitals and a professor of pediatrics and medical genetics at a major medical university.

This renowned expert is currently the Chair of the department of Family and Geriatric Medicine for a major university in Kentucky, where she also works as a Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Bioengineering, Epidemiology & Population Health, and Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences. The expert specializes in human papillomavirus and its associated diseases, as well as colposcopy. She acted as the Principal Investigator of the clinical trials for leading HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix. The expert has appeared frequently in national outlets commenting on the safety and efficacy of HPV vaccines. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.S. in Polymerics from M.I.T., as well as an M.D. and an M.P.H. in Biostatistics & Epidemiology from the University of Kansas Medical School. The expert is board certified by the American Board of Family Practice and is licensed to practice in Missouri, Kansas, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Kentucky.

This expert was Clinical Chief and Division Director of the Division of Medical Genetics at his university. He also was Assistant Dean for CME at a highly regarded university medical school and Medical Director of CME at a major Children's Hospital in San Diego. He is co-investigator for a regenerative medicine/tissue collection institute for Neurodevelopmental Disorders and is an investigator with a lab studying Neurodevelopmental Genetics at a university. One of his clinical and research interests is rare diseases and neurogenetics.