Emergency Medicine
Expert Witness & Consulting

I completed medical school at UNC - Chapel Hill in 1996 and finished my residency in emergency medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia in 1999.

I was asked by our faculty to serve as chief of the residency program. This is a leadership position during your final year in which you help the faculty teach, participate in faculty meetings, and generally serve as a pseudo faculty member.

Yes, since 1999.

The only certification required at my hospital is ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support). Other such certifications are not required because it is presumed that you have the requisite level of knowledge.

3,500

Yes, I provide oversight for PA’s and manage patients alongside them.

My company uses mid level practitioners in the ED. In our case we hire PA’s as opposed to NP’s. We take the professional growth and education of our PA’s seriously. To that end we have created an educational curriculum and provide lectures to enhance their professional development. I am one of about 10 physicians in my group who regularly teaches our physician assistants.

Yes

Primarily emergency medicine cases in it which there is a question of standard of care breach.

I practice at a Level 2 trauma center emergency department in Denver, CO.