Healthcare Expert Witnesses in Delaware

This extremely qualified expert has years of experience in hospital quality assurance and informed consent in the medical field. He is board certified in emergency medicine and completed his residency training at Thomas Jefferson University. He is a fellow at the American College of Emergency Physicians and a member of various other professional associations, including the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. His outstanding performance as an academic and practitioner has earned him several honors, including Hahnemann University Hospital's "Teaching Attending of the Year" award, which he received on three years. He lectures nationwide and is a current clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at a major university. Formerly, he was the medical director of emergency medicine at both the Medical Center of Ocean County and Nazareth Hospital. He is also the former chief of the emergency medicine clinical service at Hahnemann University and a former assistant director of continuing quality improvement at Thomas Jefferson University's emergency medicine department.

This expert specializes in infection control. He earned his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and pursued a fellowship focused on diagnostic imaging at the Temple University School of Medicine. For two decades, he worked for a firm manufacturing automated endoscope reprocessors, serving as the Director of R&D and the Chief of Infection Control. He currently owns a consultancy focused on healthcare quality and safety; he is also a prolific writer on these issues.

Healthcare consulting and management executive with thirty-six years of progressively responsible experience in assisting community hospitals, multi-hospital systems, academic medical and research centers, nursing homes and assisted living facilities, managed care organizations and large physician entities achieve strategic business objectives. Extensive involvement in complex healthcare-related litigation pertaining to identification of breach of standards of care in the operation of hospitals, nursing homes and ambulatory care environments, negligent hiring, physician credentialing in both hospital and managed care organizations, interpretation of JCAHO standards, hospital and medical staff bylaws, third party billing disputes, administrative and billing compliance, managed care contracting, economic analysis related to enterprise value and fair market value compensation analyses. Consistent proven ability to conceptualize, analyze and implement effective approaches and solutions to enhance strategic position, operational effectiveness and financial results of healthcare organizations. Regional and national consulting experience includes market planning, product line initiatives, operations improvement, business valuations, medical staff development, hospital-physician joint ventures, healthcare system reorganization, group practice formation, third party contract review and negotiation, physician and hospital business office issues.

This expert has almost a decade of experience in the field of hospital compliance and nursing. He earned his BS and MS from East Stroudsburg University, his MS in nursing from Saint Josephs College, and his DBA in healthcare management & leadership from California Intercontinental University. He is a licensed registered nurse and a certified professional in healthcare quality. He is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and the American Hospital Association. He previously served as the nursing director of emergency services at Cape Regional Medical Center, as the administrative director of nursing for emergency & critical care services at Nazareth Hospital, and as the chief compliance officer & nurse executive at Weisman Children's. This expert is currently a contributing professor at a university in New Hampshire and an independent nurse consultant in New Jersey.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience as an epidemiologist and nurse-midwife, with demonstrated experience in medical device safety including gynecologic surgical mesh, breast implants, hip replacement, cardiovascular and dermatologic devices, post-market surveillance, and pharmacoepidemiology. She received her BS in biology from the University of Illinois and a diploma in nursing from Evanston Hospital School of Nursing before earning her BS in nursing and her MS in perinatal nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She then went on to earn a post-masters certificate in midwifery from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her PhD in perinatal epidemiology from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. This expert is a certified nurse-midwife and a licensed registered nurse. She is active in her field as a member of several organizations, including the American Nurses Association, the American College of Nurse-Midwives, and the American Academy of Nursing. She is also highly involved in research, having authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and spoken at multiple scientific conferences throughout her career. For her work, she has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards. With over 15 years in academia, this expert has formerly served as an assistant professor of child, women and family health at the University of Maryland, and adjunct assistant professor in prevention and community health and an adjunct clinical associate professor of clinical management and leadership at George Washington University, and, most recently, as an adjunct associate professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Clinically, she has served as an maternal child health epidemiologist and a health sciences administrator for the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the CDC and has worked extensively with the FDA as an epidemiologist and branch chief for the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. Additionally, she served as the director of women's health, medical ethics and patient advocacy for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense. Currently, this expert is the owner and CEO of an epidemiology consulting group based in Maryland.

This qualified expert has over 17 years in healthcare administration, medical accounts, and medical billing matters. She received both an A.A. and B.S. in Health Care Administration from the University of Phoenix. Her previous positions include managerial positions in medical billing departments at various companies including Johns Hopkins, GE Healthcare and LifeBridge Health. She currently works as an Office Manager at a major university hospital. She is responsible to manage staff that includes providers, nurses and administrators. Facilitating contacts between patients and medical staff as well as maintaining, patients, office reports, inventor, appointments and etc. She has also consulted for medical billing requests.

This Doctor of Health Policy and Administration is fellowship trained in Gerontology & Health Care Research. He has published over 190 peer-reviewed articles and has delivered over 200 presentations across the country. A recipient of the American College of Health Care Administrators Public Service Award as well as The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing Distinguished Scholar Award, this expert sits on the Editorial Board of 8 academic journals, including Health Care Management Review, the Journal of Aging and Social Policy, and the Journal of Applied Gerontology. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management at a major university, and he also serves as the Director of the Doctoral Program in Health Services Research at the same institution.