Medical Expert Witnesses in Oregon

This expert is a board-certified surgeon with a clinical fellowship in burn care. He is the director of a regional burn center and he has previously served as the chair for the department of surgery. In addition, he has published articles in the Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation.

This double board certified nurse practitioner has been practicing for over a decade in acute and critical care. A member of many professional nursing societies, including the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, this expert is also a member of the ANCC Board Examination Acute Care Content Expert Panel and a reviewer for the journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Not only is this expert currently an Assistant Professor of both Nursing and Anesthesiology at a major medical university, but he is also the Director of the ACNP program at the same institution.

This highly qualified expert earned his MD and completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco. He completed his fellowship in Medical Oncology at Stanford University. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine/Medical Oncology. He is a member of prestigious association and societies such as the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society of Hematology, the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. He has been the recipient of such prestigious awards such as the Meritorious Research Award from the Oncology Division at Stanford University and the Rose Award for Exemplary Clinical Care from Oregon Health & Science University. This expert has published over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles. He is the former Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship Training Program at the Oregon Health & Science University and currently serves as Section Chief of the Solid Tumors, Hematology and Medical Oncology Division at a major university.

This highly qualified expert is a Professor of Medical Informatics with extensive experience in the proper use of Electronic Health Records. He earned his BS, and MS from Pennsylvania State University and his PhD from the University of Utah. He has held numerous academic appointments at premier medical institutions across the country including, Yale University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. He is a member of numerous professional organizations in his field; he is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a member of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is extensively published, with 250 peer reviewed journal articles in addition to numerous abstracts and presentations. In addition to his research responsibilities, he is quite active in the education of undergraduate and graduate students.

This highly qualified engineer earned his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic State University. He went on to earn his PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has over 10 years of experience conducting failure analysis for various products including biomedical devices. He formerly served as Principal Mechanical Engineer at COR Innovations, Inc., a biomedical device start-up. In this role, he was responsible for designing multiple functioning prototypes and designing and fabricating numerous electromechanical bench top apparatus' for materials testing and validation. He went on to serve as Senior Staff R&D Engineer at Abbott Vascular Structural Heart, where his primary role was serving as technical lead for improvements in their MitraClip device. He currently serves as Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of a medical device company that is focused on treating vaginal atrophy in breast cancer survivors and post-menopausal women through a novel and hormone-free, energy based therapy.

This highly qualified expert is a licensed registered nurse with certification as a critical care nurse. She earned her BS in health science and community health education from Portland State University prior to earning her BSN from Oregon Health and Science University. She is active in her field as a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and she presents nationwide on topics in the field. Currently, she is a registered nurse in the cardiovascular intensive care unit as well as a clinical instructor of acute care at a university health system in Oregon.

This expert is an experienced RN specializing in perinatal care and neonatal intensive care. She completed her BSN at San Francisco State University and her MSN at Western Governors University. She is certified in neonatal intensive care and is a licensed RN. She is active in the field as a member of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses and the Association of Women Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing. She previously was a nurse in NICU’s at Rush University, Kaiser, UCSF Benioff Children’s, and OHSU’s Doernbecher Neonatal Care Unit. She has experience as a bedside nurse, a charge nurse, and a resuscitation and triage nurse attending to newborn resuscitations and codes. She has also worked in a neuro-intensive care nursery that primarily focused on infants suffering from hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. This expert currently works as a professional development consultant at a medical center, as a nurse educator at a perinatal treatment group, and as an adjunct professor at a university in Oregon.

This expert has over 25 years of experience in physical therapy, specializing in spine rehabilitation and extremity conservative and post surgical rehabilitation, orthopedic manual therapy, with additional specialization in ankle and foot rehabilitation and orthotics. She earned her BA in psychology and BS in physical education from the University of California Berkeley, her MPT from Emory University, and her DPT from Evidence in Motion. She is certified in dry needling and as an orthopedic specialist through the American Physical Therapy Association. This licensed physical therapist previously served as a staff physical therapist at West Portland Physical Therapy Clinic, at Reid and Yates Physical Therapy, and at New Heights Integrative Therapy. She currently serves as the owner and clinical director of a sports medicine and spine therapy clinic in Oregon.

This qualified expert has nearly 10 years of experience in internal medicine. She received her BA in rhetoric and molecular/cell biology from UC Berkeley and earned her MD from the University of Chicago. She completed two residencies and two fellowships: an internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, a diagnostic radiology residency at Oregon Health and Science University, a pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at Vanderbilt University, and a cardiothoracic radiology fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University. This expert is currently board-certified in internal medicine with a subspecialty in pulmonary disease. She is active in her field as a member of several societies, including the American College of Radiology and the American Roentgen Ray Society. She is also involved in research, having authored numerous publications. Her former positions include critical care nocturnist for Skyline Medical Center and medical director of inpatient respiratory therapy at Kaiser Permanente's Westside Medical Center. Current, this expert serves as an assistant professor of cardiothoracic imaging at a medical school in Oregon.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in automated external defibrillator (AED) program design and compliance. He earned his BS in public affairs from the University of Oregon and his JD from the Lewis & Clark Northwestern School of Law. He is a member of the Oregon State Bar and an advisory board member of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation and the National Center for Early Defibrillation. He has been the founder of several firms, including Lazar Jensen Geobel, Fios, Inc., and AED Risk Insights, Inc. Currently, this expert is the founder and president of an AED program compliance company that develops and publishes national AED program design guidelines that describe industry standards for AED programs and the AED Law Center.

This board-certified radiation oncology expert is skilled at delivering all types of radiation therapy, including stereotactic radiation, brachytherapy, proton therapy, and radionuclides. He earned his BS in chemistry and biology from Stanford University, his PhD in chemistry from UC Berkeley, and his MD from Johns Hopkins University. He also completed an internal medicine internship at the University of Maryland and both a residency and clinical fellowship in radiation oncology through the Harvard University Radiation Oncology Program. This expert has extensive research experience, having served as a clinical researcher in the department of radiation oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and as a research fellow in the departments of radiology and systems biology at Harvard Medical School. He has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications and has authored multiple scientific textbooks. Currently, this expert serves as an assistant professor of radiation medicine at a university in Oregon, having formerly served as a radiation oncologist and the medical director of Compass Oncology, also based in Oregon.