Hernia Expert Witnesses in Nebraska

This highly qualified expert has her Associate of Science in Nursing from College of St. Mary's. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Creighton University and her Master of Science in Nursing/Nurse Practitioner from University Nebraska Medical Center. She is not only a nurse practitioner but also a certified bariatric nurse. She is currently a nurse practitioner in bariatric surgery as well as the bariatric surgery coordinator at a major medical center specializing in weight management. She is responsible for all the education to all bariatric surgery patients, staff in the hospital and surrounding communities in regards to bariatric surgery (or other weight management topics) and is the Leader of the Bariatric Surgery Staff.

This highly qualified expert is board certified in general surgery and critical care. She received her BA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, before going on to get her MD at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center- San Antonio. She completed a general surgery residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and then completed a research fellowship in the department of pediatric surgery at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. She then completed her clinical fellowship in critical care at Washington University. She is an active contributor to her field with numerous publications and several presentations and is a member of multiple organizations, including, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the Association of Women Surgeons. She formerly served as a shift physician for Omaha EMS and currently serves as an professor in the department of general surgery, trauma, critical care and emergency surgery at a university in Nebraska. Clinically, she serves as the director of emergency general surgery, trauma and critical care at a university-affiliated medical center.