Alcohol Use Disorder Expert Witnesses

San Jose, California

Addiction Medicine - Addiction Medicine, Expert witness, Substance use disorder, Standard of care, MAT, Relapse, Impairment, Impaired practitioner, Fitness for duty, Physician impairment, Safety sensitive professionals, Medical board cases, Licensing matters, Credentialing disputes, Return to work, Alcohol use disorder, Medical Staff matters

David A. Granovetter, MD, FASAM is a board-certified Addiction Medicine physician who provides independent expert witness services and medico-legal consultation in matters involving addiction medicine, substance use disorders, physician impairment, and fitness-for-duty determinations. Dr. Granovetter has over 20 years of experience in Addiction Medicine, including extensive work in physician health, impairment assessment, and physician well-being leadership. His professional background includes clinical addiction medicine practice as well as long-standing leadership roles focused on the evaluation and management of impairment in safety-sensitive professionals, particularly physicians. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (FASAM) and a Diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He is also a Certified Medical Review Officer (MRO). Dr. Granovetter has significant experience applying accepted medical standards to questions of diagnosis, functional i...

Atlanta, Georgia

Pain Management - Medicine, Addiction Medicine - opioids, opioid prescribing, overdose, addiction, suboxone, MAT, alcohol, alcohol use disorder, anesthesiology, pain medicine, chronic pain, interventional pain, spinal injections, spinal cord stimulation

Dr. Potru is an associate professor of anesthesiology at a major academic institution in the Southeast and is triple-board-certified in anesthesiology, interventional pain medicine, and addiction medicine; he is one of less than 25 clinicians across the country with this combination of certifications and has unique expertise as a result. Dr. Potru is a nationally recognized and well-published expert in the treatment of chronic pain and addiction as well as the treatment of the substance use disorder patient in the perioperative period; he sits on and is an active contributor to numerous national anesthesia/pain committees and working groups. Dr. Potru has given invited at multiple national and international conferences, including that of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, and the International Anesthesia Research Society, as well as multiple invited grand rounds presentati...

Solon, Iowa

Addiction Medicine, Psychiatry - Opioid use disorder, Alcohol use disorder, Medical Cannabis, Suicide Risk, Buprenorphine, Pain, Encephalopathy, Catatonia, Stimulant use disorder, Overdose, Neuroleptic malignancy syndrome

Andrea Weber, MD, is a board-certified internist, psychiatrist, and addiction medicine specialist who cares for patients in clinic and hospital settings. Dr. Weber specializes in caring for people who use drugs, including by not limited to opioids (i.e. heroin, fentanyl), methamphetamine, cocaine, alcohol, tobacco/nicotine, and cannabis. This includes best practices in the use of medications for addiction treatment, such as buprenorphine (Suboxone). Dr. Weber also cares for the physical and mental health of adult patients, specializing in diagnosing and treating conditions that have overlapping psychiatric and physical symptoms, such as catatonia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and encephalopathy. Dr. Weber is a distinguished clinician and educator with over 8 years of experience in eastern Iowa. She is an award-winning educator providing dozens of lectures annually and supervising future healthcare workers in clinic and hospital settings. Dr. Weber is an active researcher with n...

Brookline, Massachusetts

Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine, Outpatient / Ambulatory Medicine, Transitions of Care, Diagnosis, Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Failure, Hypertension, COPD, Diabetes, Geriatrics, Alcohol Use Disorder, Geriatrics

Dr. Balaban is Harvard-trained and board-certified in Internal Medicine. He has practiced outpatient Internal Medicine for more than 25 years, and previously concurrently practiced Hospital Medicine for 10 years. Dr. Balaban has extensive administrative experience as a Medical Director in a range of venues, including Primary Care, and programs in Care Transitions, High Risk Patients, and a Cancer-Screening program in which he has developed expertise in the screening of colon, lung, prostate, breast and cervical cancers. Dr. Balaban is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has provided expert consultation for plaintiff and defense attorneys. To contact by email, please send to: rbbalaban@gmail.com.

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Addiction Medicine, Psychiatry - General Adult Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Drug addiction, Alcohol Use Disorder, Standards of Care, Opiate Abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Suboxone buprenorphine, Schizophrenia Psychosis, Psychopharmacology, Suicide, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Disruptive Behavior Disorders, Tobacco Use Disorder

Kevin M. Passer, M.D., LFAPA, FASAM, FABPM, FAACAP Addiction Medicine Expert Witness Website: www.AddictionTeleMD.com Email: info@addictiontelemd.com Phone: 844-835-3631 Dr. Kevin Passer is a Johns Hopkins–trained, triple board-certified physician in Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, and Adolescent Psychiatry with over 30 years of experience. He provides expert witness services in civil, criminal, and administrative cases involving addiction, prescribing practices, and psychiatric care. His expert opinions are clear, timely, and grounded in decades of clinical and forensic experience. Dr. Passer is the founder of Addiction TeleMD, a nationwide telemedicine addiction treatment practice. He also founded and directed The Drug and Alcohol Detox Clinic of South Mississippi for nearly 20 years, providing outpatient detox and Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) services. Areas of Expertise: • • Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and Suboxone treatment • • Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) protocol...

Wyomissing, Pennsylvania

Addiction Medicine, Family Medicine - Methadone Treatment, Buprenorpphine (Suboxone) Treatment, Naltrexone injectable (Vivitrol), Dual Diagnosis Pain/Addiction. Detoxification, Substance use disorder, Drug Overdose, Fentanyl abuse, Alcohol use disorder, Opioid use disorder

I serve as the Associate Medical Director for Addiction Services at St. Luke’s University Health Network, within the Section of Addiction Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry—a position I have held since October 2024. Prior to this, I was the founding Chief of Addiction Medicine at Tower Health System, where I led the section from its inception in 2014 through 2024. I am actively involved in the education and training of future physicians. I teach medical students, interns, residents, and fellows through multiple academic affiliations, including Drexel University College of Medicine and its clinical partner, Tower Health. I also serve as faculty for the Caron Foundation Addiction Medicine Fellowship, as well as the Addiction Medicine and Pain Management Fellowship programs at St. Luke’s University Health Network. In addition to my administrative and teaching responsibilities, I continue to treat patients directly in an outpatient setting. I collaborate closely with providers a...