Informed Consent Expert Witnesses in Missouri

This double board-certified expert has over 30 years of experience in preventive medicine, specifically aerospace and occupational medicine. He received a M.D. from the University of Kansas and finished a fellowship in Space Medicine at NASA and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. A Senior FAA Medical Examiner, he has been elected as a Fellow to the American College of Preventive Medicine, the Aerospace Medical Association, and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He is currently very active in academic and clinical positions. He serves as a Medical Consultant to various companies including a major airline. He holds professorships at three different medical universities where he teaches preventive medicine and also teaches aerospace medicine at a military school.

This board certified expert has been practicing for nearly 30 years. Widely published, he sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, the Egyptian Journal of Nuclear Medicine, and Frontiers in Cancer Imaging and Diagnosis. This expert has also been an invited lecturer at continuing medical education programs at the regional, national, and international levels. He currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Radiology and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Imaging and Radiation Therapeutics at a major medical university. He is also the Director of the Division of Nuclear medicine as well as PET services at his institution's hospital affiliate.

This board certified family medicine practitioner earned his BA and MD from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He belongs to a number of prestigious medical societies, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Association of Medical Review Officers, and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. This expert is also a supremely experienced medical examiner, having performed more than 30,000 DOT exams since 2009. He is currently a physician and medical director in private practice servicing a nationwide trucking company.

This highly qualified expert is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care and a veteran of the US Army. He earned his BS from Tufts University and his MD from the New York Medical College. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. He completed a fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and American College of Critical Care Medicine. In addition to his busy clinical practice he is well published with 100 peer reviewed journal publications and 10 book chapters. He is also very active in the education of medical students and residents.

This highly qualified expert obtained his BS in Cellular and Molecular Biology as well as his MD from the University of Michigan. He then completed a residency in General Surgery and one in Cardiothoracic Surgery from University of Kentucky Hospital and Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, respectively. He is a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and American College of Surgeons. He has published 21 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters. He is currently the Director of a major medical school-affiliated hospital as well as a Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at a major medical university.

This expert has extensive experience in the field of maternal fetal medicine. He earned his BA from Washington University, St. Louis and his MD from Columbia University. He completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and maternal-fetal medicine. He is a member of the Association of Professors in Gynecology and Obstetrics and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He previously served as a clinical instructor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. This expert is currently an assistant professor in the department of maternal-fetal medicine and the associate residency program director of obstetrics and gynecology at a major university hospital center in Missouri.

This qualified expert who is a Life Care Planner and an MD, obtained his BS in Zoology from the University of Wyoming and his MD from Creighton University. He completed his internship and Residency in General Surgery and his Fellowship in Surgical Critical Care medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia and his Fellowship in Trauma at the Oregon Health Sciences University. He has been Board Certified in Surgery and Surgical Critical Care Medicine and is Certified in Life Care Planning and Mediation. He is a member of multiple Trauma and Surgical medical Associations and has 50+ Publications on Surgery Research. He is currently the Medical Team Manager for a Medical Task Force and the Medical Director and Owner of a Life Care Planning Firm.

This board certified physician currently serves as the Director of the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency at the top medical institution in the St Louis area. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Chemistry at Missouri State University and completed her MD at the University of Missouri in Columbia. She left Missouri to pursue postgraduate training, including an internship in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and a residency in Internal Medicine at an Ivy League institution in New York City.

This expert earned his BA in Chemistry from Washington University and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. After receiving his PhD, he earned his MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The expert completed his residency in Neurological Surgery at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Saint Louis Children's Hospital in association with the Washington University School of Medicine, and he went on to complete several prestigious fellowships. These fellowships focused in Spinal Surgery, Neuroscience/Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurobiology. He is also active in his field as a member of numerous medical societies including the Joint Spine Section, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the North American Spine Society and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In addition, he has published over 40 journal articles, been invited to present at numerous conferences regarding Neurosurgery and holds 3 patents. The expert currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery at a medical school in Missouri.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 15 years of experience as an anesthesiologist specializing in interventional pain management. Much of her work focuses on spine-related pain issues such as low back pain, neck pain, pain after failed spine surgeries, as well as opioids and the opioid epidemic. She received her BS in molecular and cell biology from UC Berkeley before earning her MD from Saba University in the Caribbean. She subsequently completed an internal medicine internship and anesthesiology residency at the University of Missouri before completing a quad-institution pain medicine fellowship program through Weill-Cornell New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Hospital for Special Surgery, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Columbia Medical Center. This expert is board-certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine. She is active in her field as a member of the International Spine Interventional Society, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. She has formerly served as an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Missouri, a pain management physician at Saint Luke's Hospital, and an interventional pain management physician at Mosaic Life Care. Currently, this expert serves as an interventional pain management physician for a Missouri health system.

This expert received her BA in biological sciences from the University of Missouri-Columbia and her DO from A.T. Still University Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her rotating internship at Capital Region Medical Center and her residency in family medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine at Skagit Valley Hospital. She is board-certified in family medicine, as well as osteopathic manipulative medicine. Previously, she served as a family medicine physician at Cox Health Regional Clinic. Currently, she serves as a family medicine physician at a medical center in Missouri.

This expert earned both his BA in biology and his MD from the University of Missouri before completing his residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is board-certified in internal medicine and is active in his field as a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America, the American Thoracic Society, and the American Medical Association. This expert is currently completing an infectious diseases fellowship at a medical school in Missouri.

This expert has been a practicing nurse for nearly 20 years. A licensed registered nurse, she received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Kansas and her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Missouri. This expert has extensive experience in quality control and ensuring proper standards and protocols are being followed and met. A Risk Management Consultant for Health Cap/HCRMS, she conduced training workshops and consultation for long-term care facility staff in quality insurance and improvement, risk management, safety management, risk mitigation, and best practices. As a Quality Educator with Primaris, she worked with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as part of the Quality Improvement Organization for the state of Missouri, educating, consulting, and providing resource materials to skilled nursing staff to promote improvement in resident care. Currently a Clinical Educator and Consultant for a major university, she continues to work with Quality Improvement of Missouri and provides educational presentations throughout the state for long term care facilities, the Missouri League of Nursing, and various hospitals, targeting specific audiences and quality of care issues. This expert is also an independent Nurse Consultant and is experienced in reviewing legal cases as an expert witness, analyzing medical malpractice files, and analyzing standard of care, causation, and damage issues.