Anesthesiology Pain Management Expert Witness

Expert Witness No.2589

Education

Queens College of the City University of New York
B.A. Biology, 1980

Horoah Torah Center, D. D., 1980

Albert Einstein College of Medicine M.D., 6 / 1984

CUNY Graduate Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Campus,
PhD student, 9/2001-Present, Forensic Science/ Criminal Justice

Case Studies involving single and multiple shootings, various weapons including handguns and long guns, gunshot injuries, evidence evaluation/collection and crime scene reconstruction.

Research: Blood Spatter from Gunshot Wounds

Capture of Exemplar Bullets

Dispersion/Deposition of Gunshot Residue

Related Forensic Experience

Life Member New York Microscopical Society

ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support

ATLS - Advanced Trauma Life Support

ABLS - Advanced Burn Life Support

ACLS Instructor

BLS – Basic Life Support Instructor

Consultant in Toxicology, New York and New Jersey Poison Centers

Critical Care and Trauma Related Experience

1999 - 2002, Director of Critical Care and Respiratory Therapy, Medical Center in New York

1992- 1998, Director of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Center in New Jersey

1993 –1997, Associate Director & Anesthesiologist, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in medical center
Located in New Jersey

1988 – 1992, Assistant Attending, Co- Director of SICU, at City Hospital in Elmhurst, NY

1987 – 1988, Fellow in Critical Care Medicine, University Medical Center, NY
Preceptor: Brian Kaufman, M.D.

1988 – 1989, Developer of Elmhurst Critical Care Transport Stretcher

1985 – 1987, Resident in Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Research

Available upon request

Publications

Available upon request

Academic Appointments

9/07- Present, Adjunct Professor
A Private University, Department of Biology Course in Forensic Science.

2005-Present,  Senior Research Fellow, Neuroscience Group, F. R.,
Private University

2005 – 2007, Academic Chairman for Forensic Science, Touro College, Bayshore, NY

1988 -1992, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

1995 –1998, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Hospital Appointments

1999 -2002 - Director of Critical Care and Respiratory Therapy, Island Medical Center,  NY

1999 – 2002, Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology/Pain Management, Island Medical Center

1999 -1999, Chairman, Department of Pain Management, Palliative Care, Island Medical Center

2004 – 2004, Associate Attending Hudson Valley Hospital Center, Cortandt Manor, NY

7/15/99- Present, A Private Hospital in New York

9/20/98- Present, A Private Hospital in New York

5/18/98 – Present, Provisional Attending Department of Anesthesiology Private Medical Center in New Jersey

11/13/97-5/25/03, Provisional Assistant Attending, Department of Anesthesiology, Island Medical Center, Hempstead, NY

9/1/97 – 1/1/06, Provisional Assistant Attending, Roseland Surgical Center, Roseland, NJ

8/1/97-12/31/04, Provisional Assistant Attending, Verona Surgical Center, Verona, NJ

12/4/97-Present, A Private Medical Center in Brooklyn, Division, Department of Pain Management, Anesthesiology

3/1/01- Present, Associate Attending Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Center in New Jersey

6/12/96- 3/1/01, Assistant Attending Department of Anesthesiology, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

6/6/92 - 6/12/96, Provisional Assistant Attending, Department of Anesthesiology, Saint Barnabas
Livingston, NJ.

6/6/92- 9/1/98, Director of Critical Care Department of Anesthesiology, Saint Barnabas
Medical Center Livingston, NJ

6/6/92- 4/1/97, Director of Neuroanesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Saint Barnabas
Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

12/16/93 –9/1/97, Associate Director / Anesthesiologist, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

7/1/1988- 4/23/92, Assistant Attending , Co- Director of SICU, Mount Sinai Services at the City Hospital

7/1/1988- 4/23/92
Associate Medical Director, Department of Respiratory Therapy, Mount Sinai services at the City Hospital, Center at Elmhurst

7/1/1988- Present, Consultant in Toxicology, New York City, Poison Control Center, NY, NY

8/1/95- Present, Consultant in Toxicology, Information Service

1/1/1989- 4/23/92, Developer and Director of Ventilator Weaning program, City Hospital Center at Elmhurst

7/1/1988- 1/1/1989, Developer of Elmhurst Critical Care Transport Stretcher

1991- 1992, Lecturer, New York University School of Respiratory Therapy, NY

Awards and Grants

DuPont Corporation

International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society

Saint Barnabas Medical Center Research Foundation

Glaxo- Wellcome

Post Doctoral Medical Training

1984-1985, Internal Medicine, Brookdale Hospital, Brooklyn, NY

1985-1987, Resident in Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

1985-1988, Training in Acupuncture and Pain Management, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and The New York Society of Acupuncture for Physicians and Dentists, NY

1986, Fellow in Pediatric Anesthesia, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

1987-1988, Fellow in Critical Care Medicine, New York University Medical Center, NY

Licensure and Certifications

American Board of Anesthesiology

Critical Care Medicine, American Board of Anesthesiology

Pain Management, American Academy of Pain Management

New York State Medical License

New Jersey State Medical License

Illinois State Medical License

New York State Acupuncture License

Fellow American College of Acupuncture

Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Advanced Trauma Life Support

Advanced Burn Life Support

ACLS Instructor – 1996

BLS Instructor - 1996

Honors

Magna Cum Laude: Queens College Of CUNY

Elected to the Biology Honor Society Award for Comic Journalism

HAOR Newspaper, Queens College of CUNY

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