Acute Respiratory Distress (Ards) Expert Witnesses

San Ramon, California

Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine - Sepsis, Respiratory failure, Trauma, Stroke, Neuro, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), ICU, Anoxic Brain Injury, Mechanical Ventilation, Acute Respiratory Distress (ARDS), Shock, ICU procedure complication, ICU delay of care, Pulmonary Embolism, Multi-Organ Failure, Brain hemorrhage, Overdose, Infection, Airway management, Sedation

Shawn Kaku, MD is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, and has over 12 years of experience in Critical Care Medicine. He obtained his medical degree at the University of California, Irvine. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the  University of California, Los Angeles in 2012 and subsequently completed his Critical Care followship at Stanford University in 2014. He currently works and holds privileges at 3 hospitals systems in the California Bay Area (Kaiser Permanente, Sutter and Stanford), and is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University Hospital. He has experience with critically ill medical and surgical patients, including those with traumatic and neurological injuries   Dr Kaku has worked at Sutter Eden Medical Center since 2014 as a full time Intensivist in the combined Medical/Surgical/Trauma/Neuro ICU. He has held multiple leadership positions including ICU Medical Director, Vice Chair of Medicine, Chair of Medicine, ...