Steroid Expert Witnesses in Maryland

This expert is board certified psychiatrist and addiction specialist, and also is certified by the American Board of Disability Analysts. He is an expert in handling capital, personal injury, loss mitigation, malpractice and negligence cases that involve the use of abused substances (especially, opiates, alcohol, hallucinogens, and stimulants), prescribed pharmacological agents, and in the general field of psychiatric and brain disease. This expert also is a leading neuroscientist and neuropsychopharmacologist. He can provide expert testimony on the effects of different brain states and function, in both health and disease, and their potential association with with legal culpability and liability. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at a leading university in the USA, and has over 12 years experience as Chairman in Psychiatry Departments in the USA. His research focus is in the neuropsychopharmacology of addiction, addiction and pain, pain treatment, impact of genetics on human behavior, the basic, molecular, and the brain imaging sciences related to the functioning of the brain in health, disease and addiction. In recognition of his academic, scholarly and professional achievement, he is a Fellow of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-psychopharmacologicum and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the recipient of numerous professional and scientific awards, including the Jack Mendelson Award at the NIH, which is awarded to individuals who have made distinguished contributions to our understanding of the science of addiction. He has an h-index of 46, and 11829 citations of his published work.

This expert has been practicing toxicology for over 40 years. She holds a Master of Science in Clinical Chemistry as well as a Ph.D. in Toxicology, and an honorary doctoral degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki. She serves on the World Anti-Doping Agency's Prohibited List Committee, the National Commission on Forensic Sciences, the Organization of Scientific Area Committee on Toxicology, Transportation Research Board Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs, and the National Safety Council's Alcohol, Drugs and Impairment Division Executive Board. She was a President of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists, she is also a former President of the Society of Forensic Toxicologist and past Chair of the Toxicology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. She has published over 445 peer-reviewed articles and has presented more than 500 abstracts at national and international meetings, and she sits on the Editorial Board of multiple toxicological and chemical journals. She recently retired as Chief of Chemistry and Drug Metabolism, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health. She serves as an Adjunct Professor at a major medical university. She consults with the US Department of Transportation, NMS Labs, and other diagnostic companies around the world. The journal Clinical Chemistry identified her as an inspiring mind.