New York Expert Witnesses

This highly-qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in the field of residential architecture and building codes. He earned his BS in architecture from the University of Maryland and is a licensed registered architect. Formerly, this expert served as founder and CEO of Greenwald Cassell Associates, Inc., an award winning residential architecture and contracting firm. Currently, he is the founder and CEO of a private residential architecture firm in New York.

This highly-qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in pharmacology. He earned his BS in pharmacy from Albany College of Pharmacy before earning his PhD from Shenandoah University. He is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist and a licensed pharmacist. He also holds a certification in pediatric advanced life support. He is active in his field as an author of several scientific articles and as a member of several organizations, including the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group. He has formerly served as a pharmacist for Brooks Pharmacy, the Medical University of South Carolina, Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, and Griffin Hospital. He also served as the director of pharmacy for Option Care (Infucor), a clinical pharmacy specialist at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and the director of pharmacy at Upstate University Hospital. Currently, this expert is the executive director of pharmacy services at a university-affiliated hospital in New York.

This patient care technician has been working in the field of safe patient handling and mobility for over 15 years. She earned her BS in international area studies from Drexel University and is certified as a safe patient handling professional. She is active in her field as a member of the Association of Safe Patient Handling Professionals and as an author of several articles for the International Journal for Safe Patient Handling. She has formerly worked in acute care and as a physical therapy aide, with both roles focusing on safe patient handling. In these positions, she also worked for the hospital as a safety trainer and gave lectures during rounds. Currently, this expert is an independent consultant in safe patient handling and mobility.

This highly qualified general dentist earned a DDS from the Baylor College of Medicine and completed residency training in general practice at Florida State Hospital. He is currently an associate professor in the department of general dentistry at a major medical institution, and maintains a private practice in general dentistry in New York. He is a member of the Academy of General Dentistry, and a lifetime member of both the American Dental Association and the Dental Society of the State of New York. Also a member of the OKU dental honor society Dr Wender was an active AEMT and firefighter for 17 years and has lectured extensively on Physiological Emergencies in the Dental Office.

This actively practicing expert is board certified in neurology and addiction psychiatry, holds several clinical professorships in his field, and is internationally recognized in the field of addiction psychology. His numerous appointments at such prestigious institutions as Cornell make him highly capable of reviewing this case.

This expert is the senior partner of EMA Partners New York, and a retired Partner of Ernst & Young where he was the Managing Director of the global executive search practice and senior national partner for executive compensation and human resources consulting services. He has successfully completed more than 1000 search assignments in his career across all industry sectors and within all functional fields for organizations of all sizes, and for both domestic and international organizations. He has authored numerous books on the compensation of directors, corporate governance, executive selection and executive compensation. This expert is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. He is an accredited diplomat of the American Compensation Association, a member of the Institute of Management Consultants, Society of Human Resources Management and the Board of Advisors of the Corporate Governance Institute at Florida Atlantis University. He was named by the Association of Executive Search Consultants as a "pioneer of executive search".

This double board certified expert has been practicing for more than 30 years. Fellowship trained in Infectious Disease, she holds membership in the Infectious Disease Societies of New York and America and in the American Society of Microbiology. She has been published in professional journals such as "Journal of Clinical Microbiology" and "Infectious Disease Clinics of North America", and she has been honored in publications such as Top Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease Specialists and Leading Physicians of the World. Currently, this expert is a Clinical Assistant Professor at a major medical university as well as an Infectious Disease Specialist and the Executive Director of a private medical practice.

This qualified expert is board certified and actively practices as a hospital administrator at among the finest medical institutions in the country, specializing in geriatric hip fractures. He is also extensively published and pursues research in the field of geriatrics, making him highly capable of reviewing the case at hand.

This double board certified expert has been practicing for over 20 years. He completed his Infectious Disease fellowship at Cornell University as well as a research fellowship at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Awarded the honor of Fellow of both the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American College of Physicians, he holds membership in a multitude of other prestigious medical organizations and serves as a reviewer for over 40 medical journals. He is also extensively published with over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and abstracts. Currently, this expert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases at a major medical university, where he is also the Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases. His specific infectious disease experience includes tuberculosis, hepatitis, lyme disease, fungal infections, diseases of travel, infections in transplant recipients, bone and joint infections, and infections associated with targeted immunotherapy.

This expert is a building and construction professional with over 30 years of hands-on experience in the construction and building inspection industries. He has testified in numerous trials and depositions for both plaintiff and defense attorneys. He has been qualified as an expert in construction and personal injury cases in courtrooms from New York City to Connecticut to Boston and has authored and presented numerous Continuing Legal Education courses, coast to coast. This expert has been specifically trained in residential and commercial building codes, construction site safety, residential and commercial building envelopes, slip, trip and fall accidents and building inspections. His decades of practical experience provides him with the unique ability to translate written code words into three-dimensional, real world interpretations making him extremely valuable as a forensic expert. Since the late 1970’s, This expert has been involved in the residential and commercial construction and building inspection industries. He also has extensive experience in prefabricated buildings and ran separate building manufacturing, roofing and drywall companies as subsidiaries of his construction company. Using the partnership and knowledge of his father, combined with his natural instincts and abilities as a building professional, he has worked side by side with his dad in the family building inspection and construction businesses since the late 1970’s. As this expert says, “you cannot learn in college what you can learn from your father”. With that as his mantra, he is a firm believer that there is no better educational resource than hands-on experience. In 2014 this expert was hired as the lead expert by one of New York City’s most prominent personal injury law firms to act as the plaintiff’s safety expert in a construction accident case that returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $62 million, the highest amount ever awarded to a single plaintiff in the history of Queens, New York.

This expert is fully qualified and equipped with knowledge regarding laws on ethics. He has been qualified as an expert previously. He was the former vice chair, and currently a member, of the Professional Ethics Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association. In addition to his legal practices, he also travels throughout the state to various law schools and other legal associations as lecturer on ethics and civility. Furthermore, he has many publications on the topic of morality, ethics, and the law. He has defended hundreds of lawyers, judges and law students facing disciplinary and licensing problems.

This qualified expert has been involved in the field of medical technologies for over forty years and is experienced with matters concerning FDA compliance on which he has authored several articles and papers and given talks on FDA compliance worldwide. He is also the vice president of a private medical technologies firm, making him intimately qualified to comment on the case at hand.