Immunology Expert Witnesses in Oregon

This expert's is a Physician-Scientist (M.D. and Ph.D) who serves as an attending hepatologist at a top tier university. He specializes the care of viral hepatitis (HCV and HBV) and other liver diseases. His research interests have been centered on hepatitis C virus (HCV) virology, pathogenesis, and virus-host interaction including immune response. For the past 10 years during his PhD and Post-Doctoral training, he has investigated viral-host interactions that regulate HCV viral replication through the activation of intracellular innate immune response. In recent years, he has focused on understanding how host cell innate immune pathways sense HCV infection and initiate the host response which involves type I interferon and proinflammatory cytokine production to regulate hepatic immunity. After a recent transition to an independent faculty position, his laboratory continues to investigate virus-host interactions that regulates disease outcome and pathogenesis of HCV infection. He has extensive expertise and skills in virology, cell signaling, cytokine biology, and cell biology. His role as a physician specializing in the care of viral hepatitis at an academic medical center offers the unique integration of basic science and clinical/translational science into the laboratory research program.

This highly qualified, board certified expert earned his Bachelor's from the University of California Los Angeles, where he also earned his medical degree. This was followed by a residency in pediatrics at the Boston' Children hospital and a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Disease at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. This expert is a member of numerous medical societies and has published 27 papers in leading peer-reviewed journals. This expert previously held the position of Epidemiologic Intelligence Service Officer at the centers for disease control and prevention and also worked as a public health consultant at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. He currently serves as the Medical Partnership Director of a nationally renown online education tool used by millions of users and he also serves as the chief medial officer of a renown online medial education tool used by medical students and residents. He curently also serves as a Pediatric Infectious disease clinical instructor at an Ivy League University Hospital center.

This highly qualified expert has over 45 years of experience as an orthopedic surgeon. He earned his BA in psychology from Lafayette College and his MD from New York Medical College. He then went on to complete a medical-surgical internship and orthopedic surgery residency at the Hospital for Joint Diseases, and his fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of California, San Diego. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery, the National Board of Medical Examiners, and the American College of Surgeons. He is a licensed physician in California. He has published 5 books, 23 chapters, and over 150 journal articles, as well as presenting extensively on topics in his field. He specializes in post-trauma limb reconstruction, including non-unions, mal-unions, shortening and post-trauma infections of bones and joints. He has been in active clinical practice for decades and has taught at some of America's premier academic medical institutions. Formerly, he served as the president of the Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society and the Association of Bone & Joint Surgeons. Currently, he works as an orthopedic surgeon for a private practice in Southern California and as a clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at at a University and Medical Center in California.

This highly-qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in the field of allergy and immunology and internal medicine. He earned his AB from Columbia University and his MD from Boston University before completing an internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital, a fellowship with the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and a fellowship in allergy and immunology at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation. This expert is dual-board certified in internal medicine and allergy and immunology. He is also certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners and holds 1 patent for therapeutics in respiratory medicine. He is active in his field as a member of several organizations, including the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology, the American Thoracic Society, and the American College of Chest Physicians. He is also involved in research, having authored several scientific articles, book chapters, and abstracts. He has formerly served as a clinical instructor at George Washington University, the head of allergy, immunology, and rheumatic diseases at Virginia Mason, and a clinical assistant professor at the University of Washington. Currently, this expert serves as a clinical professor at a distinguished university in Washington, as well as an attending physician at a university-affiliated allergy and immunology clinic.

This extremely qualified infectious disease specialist has received his education and medical training from among the finest institutions in the country. Over his 30+ years of medical practice in the field of infectious diseases, he has been appointed to high ranking medical directorships of several major infectious disease programs in the west coast. He is also a fellow of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, as well as the American College of Physicians.

This board certified pathologist has been practicing for more than 35 years. He is extremely well established and respected in the field, having authored more than 175 publications on pathology and having spoke at a number of prestigious conferences and symposiums in the field. He is a leading member of several pathologic societies and currently serves as a professor of pathology and immunology at a top university medical center.