Thoracic Surgery Expert Witnesses

This highly qualified expert earned her BS from UC Irvine and MD from Harvard. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care at UC San Diego. She is certified in Interventional Pulmonology, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Internal Medicine. She is an active member of several medical societies related to her focus in Pulmonary and Critical Care, and has published numerous journal articles and abstracts on the topic. She previously served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pulmonary Critical Care, and now works at a hospital in California as a Pulmonary Critical Care and Interventional Pulmonology Physician.

This highly qualified nursing expert has extensive experience in his field and is skilled in cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, and critical care nursing. After earning his BS in nursing from Washburn University, this expert went on to obtain his MS in nursing there as well. He is certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and holds additional certifications in advanced cardiac life support and life support for the professional rescuer. He is a member of the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses. Formerly, this expert has held roles as a laboratory phlebotomist, a patient care technician, and a staff nurse in the critical care unit at Stormont-Vail Health. Additionally, he has served as a staff nurse at Tallgrass Surgical Center. Currently, he holds the position of an APRN in the cardiology and electrophysiology unit at a KS health center and as an adjunct lecturer at a KS nursing school.

This highly qualified expert earned his MD from Harvard Medical school and completed his internship and residency at Johns Hopkins in general surgery. This expert then went on to complete a residency at Stanford University in cardiothoracic surgery, and completed his research fellowship at Baylor. Additionally, this expert is active within his field as a member of numerous societies including The Thoracic Surgery Residents Association, The American Medical Association, The American Association of Medical Colleges, and The International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. This expert has published 24 peer-reviewed journal articles along with 5 book chapter and 1 book. Formerly this expert was the assistant to the chief medical officer at a regional medical center in TX and was a cardiovascular surgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Currently, this expert is an assistant professor of surgery at a world renowned hospital.

This highly qualified pulmonary and critical care expert has over 30 years of experience in his field. He received his BA in biology from the University of Chicago and his MD from New York Medical College. After finishing his internship at Kaiser Hospital and his residency from George Washington University, this expert went on to complete a prestigious fellowship in pulmonology at the University of Illinois Medical Center. He holds board certifications in internal medicine and pulmonary disease. Additionally, this expert is a member of various professional societies and organizations, including the American College of Chest Physicians and the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. Formerly, he has held roles as an assistant and associate professor of pulmonary disease at UCI School of Medicine, and as the former director of bronchoscopy there as well. He has also served as a medical consultant at the Grossman Burn Unit in Martin Luther Hospital and as the director of pulmonary rehabilitation there as well. Currently, he serves as the president and medical director of a CA medical research group and the medical director of a CA hospital.

This highly qualified expert has over 10 years of clinical experience as a thoracic surgeon specializing in thoracic oncology and minimally invasive thoracic and foregut surgery. He earned both his BS and MS at the University of Manitoba, later receiving his MD at the University of Toronto. He went on to complete his medical training with a residency in general surgery from the University of Manitoba and a double fellowship in thoracic surgery and minimally invasive thoracic and foregut surgery from the University of British Columbia and Swedish Medical Center in Washington respectively. He is an active member in dozens of committees and medical organizations including the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Surgery, an attending thoracic surgeon and the Program Director of the Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Program at a medical school in Manitoba and previously held similar roles at Dalhousie University. He also serves on the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Manitoba Inquiry Committee, and has provided expert witness testimony in medicolegal cases and hospital critical incident reviews.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 45 years of experience in the field of surgery. He earned his BS from the University of Florida and his MD from Tulane University. He completed an internship, surgery residency, and fellowship in cardiac and thoracic surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital. This expert is board-certified in surgery and specializes in cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgery. He is active in his field as a member of several associations, including the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the American College of Cardiology, and the American College of Chest Physicians. He has formerly served as a staff surgeon for various emergency rooms throughout Florida and Virginia, as well as running a private practice as a cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgeon in Delray Beach, Florida. Currently, this expert serves as a staff surgeon for four Florida-area hospitals, is part of the surgery faculty at a distinguished medical school in Florida, and runs a private practice as a cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgeon in Florida.

This highly qualified expert in cardiothoracic surgery received his BS and MD from King's College in London. He then completed an internship in general medicine and cardiology at King's College School of Medicine and residencies in both surgery and thoracic medicine at the University of Illinois and Loyola University School of Medicine, respectfully. He finished his formal training with fellowships in transplant surgery at the University of Cambridge, heart surgery at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital, and congenital heart surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. After completing his training, he went on to serve as an attending adult and pediatric cardiac surgeon, the lead of the thoracic residency program, and an assistant professor in surgery at the University of Cincinnati. He is active in his field as a member of associations such as the Society of Thoracic Surgery and he has authored over 70 publications and 2 book chapters. Currently, he is an attending cardiothoracic surgeon at an MA medical center.

This expert has extensive experience in pulmonary, sleep, and critical care medicine. He received his BA from Middlebury College before earning his MD from Columbia University. He then also completed a medical Spanish program through the AEC Spanish Institute in Costa Rica and a clinical research education program through the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He completed an internship and residency in the department of medicine and a fellowship in the pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine division at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He spent one year of his fellowship as the chief fellow and spent an additional year in the program specializing as a sleep fellow. This expert is quadruple-board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, critical care medicine, and sleep medicine. He is involved in research in the field, having authored several publications and abstracts. He has formerly served as a moonlighter in the adult day services cardiology telemetry unit and the respiratory care unit at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, as well as a hospitalist at Clutha Health First in New Zealand. Currently, this expert is an assistant professor of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at a distinguished university and a moonlighter in the inpatient oncology unit at a major hospital system in New York.

This highly-qualified expert has over 15 years of experience in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep disorders medicine. He earned his MBBS from the University of Nairobi in Kenya before moving to the United States to complete his residency in internal medicine at Northwestern University and two fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine: one in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep disorders medicine and the other in lung transplant medicine. This expert is triple board-certified in internal medicine, critical care medicine, and pulmonary disease. He has formerly served as the co-medical director of respiratory therapy at National Park Community College, the co-medical director of the ICU at Mercy Hospital, the attending physician for pulmonary, critical care, and sleep disorders at Mercy Clinic, the medical director at CHI St. Vincent Sleep Disorders Center, and the chief of staff at CHI St. Vincent Hospital. This expert currently serves as the attending physician of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep disorders at an Arkansas hospital.

This expert is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, and critical care medicine. He received his BA in history from Dartmouth College before earning his MD from St. George’s University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and his fellowship in pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Currently, he is an attending physician in pulmonary and critical care medicine at a hospital and an assistant professor in medicine at a medical college, both in New York.

This qualified expert earned his BS in statistics from the University of Michigan and his MD at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine before going on to complete both an internship and residency in internal medicine at Boston Medical Center followed by a fellowship in pulmonary/critical care at Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in internal medicine and pulmonary disease and an active member of multiple professional societies including the American Thoracic Society and the American College of Physicians. Formerly, he served as an instructor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Currently, this expert is a clinical and research fellow of medicine at an Ivy League medical school as well as a fellow of pulmonary and critical care at two of its affiliated hospitals. Additionally, he serves as an attending physician of internal medicine and critical care medicine at multiple hospitals in Massachusetts.

This well-qualified nursing expert has a variety of experience in her field. She received an ADN from Durham Technical Community College, an MSN in adult critical care from Rush University, and a DNP in nursing administration from Duke University. She is a licensed RN and is board certified as an adult health clinical nurse specialist. In addition, she holds membership in professional organizations such as the Nurse Executive Council and the North Carolina Public Health Association. Previously, this expert held roles as a registered nurse in cardiothoracic ICU, chief of staff to the VP of Patient Care and system chief nurse executive, and clinical nurse specialist for acute pain service at Duke University. Currently, she serves as a public health supervisor for a county health department in North Carolina and as a clinical nurse specialist at a world-renowned healthcare organization clinic in Florida.

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 interventional pulmonology expert specializes in benign and malignant airway disease, including lung nodule management, pulmonary masses, endobronchial valves, endobronchial stents, and bronchoscopy. He earned his BS in biology and political science, as well as his MBA from Union College, before earning his MD from Albany Medical College. He subsequently completed an internal medicine residency and a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and an interventional pulmonology fellowship at the University of Chicago. This expert is board certified in internal medicine, critical care medicine, and pulmonary disease. He is active in his field as a member of several professional organizations, including the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Association for Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology, and the American Thoracic Society. Currently, this expert is based in Wisconsin, where he is the director of interventional pulmonology at an academic medical center and an assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care at a medical school.

She focuses on the clinical aspects of science, but also on quality and patient safety, which makes her a perfect fit for this case. She is a member of numerous institutional, national, and international professional societies, and has created societies as well. She has been published in medical journals and books over 60 times and holds editorial position for many medical journals. She’s presented to her peers and students over 75 times, and has research completed and ongoing. She’s also won many honors and awards such as her college of medicine’s Excellence in Teaching Award for the Department of Surgery. She does predominantly thoracic work and is very familiar with this issue and complication.

This highly qualified double board certified cardiothoracic surgeon performs > 250 open heart surgeries per year as well as many minimally invasive procedures. He is a member of multiple distinguished national and international societies including the The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and The Joint Council on Thoracic Surgery Education. He has received multiple awards and honors throughout his 15 year career such as Georgia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons award and the Joseph B. Whitehead Department of Surgery Research prize. He currently holds academic, administrative and clinical appointments at a major university medical school.

This double board certified thoracic surgeon has has practicing for nearly 20 years. An editor of six different academic journals, this expert is widely published and has presented extensively across the U.S. on esophagectomy and other esophageal complications. He is an Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery at a major medical university, as well as the Director of the Esophageal Surgery Program and the Chief of Thoracic Surgery and the same institution.

This board-certified and fellowship-trained expert has over 15 years of experience as a pathologist. He has presented both nationally and internationally and has authored over 50 publications on the topic of pulmonary pathology. Elected as a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists, he currently serves as a tenured Associate Professor of Pathology and Staff Pathologist at a major university medical center.

This highly qualified and triple board certified pulmonologist earned his MD at the University of Minnesota. He completed an internship and residency training in internal medicine at the University Colorado, in addition to fellowship training in pulmonology and critical care at the University of California, San Francisco. This expert has received numerous awards for his academic and clinical work and is a member of the American Thoracic Society. He has authored 70+ articles and serves as an editor and reviewer for a number of peer reviewed journals. Currently, this expert is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Pulmonary Consult Service and Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program at a top ranking university as well as an attending pulmonologist at a university affiliated hospital.

This Board Certified Critical Care physician has been practicing medicine for over 15 years, receiving his Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine from the University of Michigan Medical Center. He is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and has over 20 publications in the field of Critical Care. He is the former Associate Chair of Internal Medicine at Wayne State University and the former Associate Division Head of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Research at the Henry Ford Health System. Currently, he is the Division Head of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, and the Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at a Michigan-based health system university.