Difficult Airway Expert Witnesses

San Francisco, California

Anesthesiology - difficult airway, intubation, brain injury / brain damage, hypoxia, hypotension, residual paralysis, narcotics, oversedation, aspiration, PACU, neurosurgical anesthesia, obstetric anesthesia, awareness under anesthesia, brain monitoring, ENT anesthesia, Intraoperative visual loss, drug errors

Dr. Chander is a board certified anesthesiologist and neuroscientist (PhD). She served on the Stanford Anesthesiology faculty for 8 years. At Stanford, her areas of expertise and teaching included general surgery, neurosurgical, ENT/head & neck, orthopedic, and obstetric anesthesia. She has extensive experience with propofol sedation and total IV anesthesia, +/- brain monitoring, and difficult airway. She has trained residents in the OR, on labor & delivery, and through didactic teaching. Over the past several years, Dr. Chander continues to practice anesthesia at several Bay Area hospitals (including a level 1 trauma center). Dr. Chander has also co-founded 2 companies in the healthcare space, in neuro-ICU diagnostics, and creating a platform for integration for public health data. She served on a NASA task force for COVID19, and a global pandemic resilience task force, which she co-chaired and directed. In 2020, she was appointed a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council. Dr. Chan...

California

Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine - surgical critical care, ACLS / Code, Drug Error, Difficult Airway, Regional Anesthesia, ultrasound, nerve injury, positioning injury, trauma, acute pain, neuromuscular blockade, sedation, intubation / air way injury, opioids, Non-OR anesthesia, propofol, Epidural/spinal, Blood transfusion, OSA, ECMO

I completed my anesthesia training at a level 1 trauma medical center in Detroit Michigan. I then went on to complete my fellowship in critical care medicine in 2018 at a major regional tertiary care center - Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin. I am double boarded in anesthesia and critical care medicine and have been practicing critical care anesthesia as an assistant professor since 2018. I held leadership positions - of being the critical care fellowship program director and journal club director. I created a ultrasound workshop for our residents which lead to a publication in SOCCA. I just recently decided to go out and practice on my own. I continue to practice at other hospitals in Wisconsin. I specialize in all types of anesthesia (airway Management, general anesthesia, Regional anesthesia, intubations, hypoxia, sedation, difficult airway, nerve injury's, Epidurals, opioids, peripheral nerve blocks, PACU, cardiac arrest, surgical critical car. mechano-circulato...

Wellington, Florida

Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology - General Anesthesia, Pediatric Anesthesia, Neonatal Anesthesia, Regional Anesthesia, Obstetric Anesthesia, Hypoxic Brain Injury, Cardiac Arrest, Difficult Airway, Lost Airway, Hypoxia, Spine Surgery, Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC), Sedation, Medication Errors, Nerve Injury, Positioning

Award-winning dual board-certified anesthesiologist and pediatric anesthesiologist who trained at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Licensed in the state of Florida and works full-time as an anesthesiologist/pediatric anesthesiologist at St. Mary’s Medical Center and Palm Beach International Surgery Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. Extensive experience with medical direction; supervising certified registered nurse anesthetists and certified anesthesiologist assistants as well as solo practice. Multiple publications and grand rounds presentations. Dr. Zajac serves as a medical expert witness in the fields of anesthesiology and pediatric anesthesiology. Dr. Zajac can opine on standard of care and medical malpractice for either plaintiff or defense counsel and is adept in providing his expert opinion on events that occur during the perioperative time period. Unblemished record and highly responsive to emails and phone cal...

Naperville, Illinois

Anesthesiology - Cardiac, Cardiac Anesthesia, Invasive Monitoring, TEE, Thoracic, Obstetric, Ultrasound, EMR, Department Chair, Surgery Center, Ambulatory, Intraoperative Monitoring, Cardiac Arrest, Difficult Intubation, Difficult Airway, Regional, Neuro, Neuroanesthesia, Off-site, General Anesthesia

Previous Chair of the Department of Anesthesia, Central Dupage Hospital, Northwestern Medicine - Extensive experience with chart review for medical errors and poor outcomes. Fellowship trained Cardiac Anesthesiologist 14 years of practice at the same Top Ranked Hospital, no adverse events, no judgments or court on my record. Practiced Cardiac Anesthesiology in a Top Rated Hospital for 14yrs Have been using EMR (Epic) for over 10 years, developed a clear understanding of how to interpret data in an electronic chart and its nuances. I practice Cardiac, Thoracic, Neurosurgical, Orthopedic, Oncological, Obstetric, Ambulatory and General Anesthesia. Over 15 years experience with ultrasound use for regional anesthesia and invasive line placement.

Illinois

Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine - surgical critical care, ACLS / Code, Drug Error, Difficult Airway, Regional Anesthesia, ultrasound, nerve injury, positioning injury, trauma, acute pain, neuromuscular blockade, sedation, intubation / air way injury, opioids, Non-OR anesthesia, propofol, Epidural/spinal, Blood transfusion, OSA, ECMO

I completed my anesthesia training at a level 1 trauma medical center in Detroit Michigan. I then went on to complete my fellowship in critical care medicine in 2018 at a major regional tertiary care center - Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin. I am double boarded in anesthesia and critical care medicine and have been practicing critical care anesthesia as an assistant professor since 2018. I held leadership positions - of being the critical care fellowship program director and journal club director. I created a ultrasound workshop for our residents which lead to a publication in SOCCA. I just recently decided to go out and practice on my own. I continue to practice at other hospitals in Wisconsin. I specialize in all types of anesthesia (airway Management, general anesthesia, Regional anesthesia, intubations, hypoxia, sedation, difficult airway, nerve injury's, Epidurals, opioids, peripheral nerve blocks, PACU, cardiac arrest, surgical critical car. mechano-circulato...

Silver Spring, Maryland

Anesthesiology - General anesthesia, Regional anesthesia, Airway management, Difficult airway, Nerve block / injury, Opiate, Acute pain, Recovery room, Awareness, Ultrasound, Aspiration, Blood pressure, Monitored Anesthesia Care - MA, Conscious sedation, Epidural, Spinal, Obstetric anesthesia, Death, Pregnancy, CPR

Dr. Justin Black is a board-certified, award-winning anesthesiologist working full-time in active clinical practice throughout Maryland and Washington, D.C. With over 15 years of clinical experience, Dr. Black is an expert in many areas of general anesthesia. His expertise includes advanced techniques such as ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia, including peripheral nerve blocks for operative and post-operative acute pain control. He has extensive experience with solo practice and medical direction, supervising certified registered nurse anesthetists. In addition to his clinical commitment, Dr. Black has effectively performed in critical leadership positions, including successfully serving as interim chairman of the Department of Anesthesia at a renowned community hospital in Baltimore, MD throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Experienced as a public speaker, he can clearly and effectively articulate his analysis and findings of compliance or deviation from standard of care and causat...

Natick, Massachusetts

Emergency Medicine - Trauma, Orthopedic Injuries, Difficult Airway, Emergency Procedures, Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Procedural Sedation, Medical Simulation, Sepsis, Appendicitis, Stroke, Pulmonary Embolism, Cauda Equina Syndrome, Clinical Operations

Dr. David Meguerdichian is a board certified emergency medicine physician and a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is an instructor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School and practices emergency medicine at the academic and community sites for Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Dr. Meguerdichian is a graduate of Boston University School of Medicine and completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center where he served as chief resident in his final year. Through his years in practice, Dr. Meguerdichian has educated hundreds of students and resident physicians. In his current role as the assistant medical director of the Neil and Elise Wallace STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation, he has focused on the use of simulation to improve physician procedural skills, patient safety, and closed-loop physician communication. He has authored several peer-reviewed publications and lectured on key topics in emergency medicine. R...

Brookline, Massachusetts

Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine - General Anesthesia, Postoperative complications, Critical Care, ICU, Difficult Airway, ACLS, Shock, Sepsis, Resuscitation, Perioperative medicine, PACU, Orthopedic anesthesia, General surgery, Endoscopy, Airway Management, Spinal Anesthesia, Informed Consent, Central Line, Cardiac Arrest

Dr. Ilan Mizrahi is a Harvard-trained, double board-certified, anesthesiologist and critical-care intensivist in active practice at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Mizrahi has expertise in all aspects of anesthesiology: preoperative evaluation, intraoperative management, and postoperative care. He can provide an expert opinion on the anesthesia standard-of-care during surgery, and on the postoperative management if the patient has a complication after surgery (in the recovery room/PACU or on the floor). Dr. Mizrahi's expertise extends beyond the operating room, as he is an attending physician in the ICU, with expertise in the care of critically ill surgical and medical patients He can provide guidance on the standard-of-care for patients throughout their hospitalization. This includes failure-to-rescue for patients with complications that are not recognized or treated in a timely fashion. He is the director of Quality Improvement in the Surgical ICU at MGH, and reviews all cas...

Boston, Massachusetts

Anesthesiology - Anesthesia, Orthopedic anesthesia, Regional anesthesia, General surgery, Neuraxial anesthesia, Gynecology, Urology, Preoperative assessment, Perioperative medicine, Postoperative anesthetic care, Operating Room, Difficult airway, Airway Management, Positioning, Nerve Injury, Ambulatory anesthesia

Board-Certified Anesthesiologist in active clinical practice. Current practice includes providing anesthesia to all types of patients, from straightforward to complex cases, as well as preoperative assessment, perioperative medicine, and postoperative anesthetic care. Great verbal communication skills. Focused on providing an objective, thorough, and detail-oriented review of materials with careful analysis of the findings in order to help attorneys make decisions about how they wish to proceed with their cases.

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Anesthesiology, Obstetrical Anesthesiology - Ante-partum, Post-partum, Operating room, Perioperative, Trauma center, Surgery, Fetoscopic Surgery, High Risk Parturients, High Risk Pregnancies, Intra-partum, Maternal Mortality, Maternal Morbidity, Difficult Airway, Outpatient surgery, Preoperative evaluation, Post graduate medical education

• Harvard and Johns Hopkins educated and trained physician with over ten years of experience • Professional specialization in high-risk obstetric anesthesiology, anesthesiology for fetoscopic surgeries, general anesthesiology (in- and out-patient), trauma anesthesiology with experience working in a level 1 trauma center in an urban, metropolitan area. • Prize-winning educator in post graduate medical education

New York

Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine - surgical critical care, ACLS / Code, Drug Error, Difficult Airway, Regional Anesthesia, ultrasound, nerve injury, positioning injury, trauma, acute pain, neuromuscular blockade, sedation, intubation / air way injury, opioids, Non-OR anesthesia, propofol, Epidural/spinal, Blood transfusion, OSA, ECMO

I completed my anesthesia training at a level 1 trauma medical center in Detroit Michigan. I then went on to complete my fellowship in critical care medicine in 2018 at a major regional tertiary care center - Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin. I am double boarded in anesthesia and critical care medicine and have been practicing critical care anesthesia as an assistant professor since 2018. I held leadership positions - of being the critical care fellowship program director and journal club director. I created a ultrasound workshop for our residents which lead to a publication in SOCCA. I just recently decided to go out and practice on my own. I continue to practice at other hospitals in Wisconsin. I specialize in all types of anesthesia (airway Management, general anesthesia, Regional anesthesia, intubations, hypoxia, sedation, difficult airway, nerve injury's, Epidurals, opioids, peripheral nerve blocks, PACU, cardiac arrest, surgical critical car. mechano-circulato...

Stony Brook, New York

Anesthesiology, Pharmacology- Clinical - Clinical Research, Institutional Review Board, IRB, Business, Administration, Anesthesia Technology, Accreditation, ACLS, BLS, Paramedic Education, Dental Anesthesia, Quality Assurance, Airway Management/Intubation, Pre-Operative Evaluation, Difficult Airway, Sedation, Opioids, Hypoxia, General Anes

Clinical Research Institutional Review Board, IRB Business, Administration Anesthesia Technology Accreditation ACLS, BLS Paramedic Education Dental Anesthesia Airway Management/Intubation Pre-Operative Evaluation Quality Assurance Difficult Airway Sedation Opioids Hypoxia General Anesthesia

Charlotte, North Carolina

Anesthesiology - Fentanyl, Anesthesia Peri-operative Management, Gastroenterolgy, Ortho trauma/Regional Blocks, Ketamine, Cannabis, difficult airway, wrongful death, Child Neglect/Abuse, Sexual Assault

Duke Fellowship Regional Anesthesia recipient. Over 12 years in active clinical practice. University of Notre Dame graduate in South Bend, IN. Weill Cornell- New York Presbyterian Hospital trained in General Anesthesiology. Extensive ultrasound guided regional anesthesia and block placement at the infamous orthopedic focused Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Intense Anesthesia and critical care training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Hospital in New York. Teaching and mentoring experience. Completed SEAK expert witness training program. Trial (testifying) and deposition experience. Medical chart review, consultation and written reporting experience. Consultations with legal teams to assist with the interpretation of medically related case information. Former Ketamine Clinic owner and expert in off label Ketamine use for depression, suicidal ideations and chronic pain. She contributes her success as an expert witness to her committment to excellence, voracio...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Anesthesiology, Pain Management - Medicine - Regional Anesthesiology, Nerve Injury, Pain Management, Peripheral Nerve Blocks, Epidural Anesthesia, Spinal Anesthesia, Orthopedic Anesthesia, Ultrasound guided procedures, General Anesthesia, Sedation, Intubation, Extubation, Difficult Airway, Trauma

Dr. Grosh is a board-certified Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia he is fellowship trained in Regional Anesthesiology Acute and Chronic Pain management. Dr. Grosh is the Director of Orthopedic Anesthesiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center overseeing clinical care of orthopedic surgical patients. Additionally, he is Chair of Procedural Sedation Committee and the co-chair of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center's Clinical Effectiveness Committee in which he oversees quality improvement and safety metrics for patients in the perioperative space. Dr. Grosh is an expert in the field of regional anesthesia, peripheral nerve blocks, nerve injury, anesthesia for total joint arthroplasty including knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, wrist as well as traumatology and airway management. Dr. Grosh also staffs Penn’s acute/chronic pain consult service creating c...

Merion Station, Pennsylvania

Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine - Cardiac Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Cardiac Critical Care, Transesophageal Echo, Critical Care Anesthesiology, Surgical Critical Care, intubation, General Anesthesia, shock, difficult airway, cardiac arrest, Resucitation, heart failure, central line, pulmonary artery catheter

Dr. Kornfield is a board-certified, actively practicing Cardiac Anesthesiologist and Critical Care Physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia. In his roles as Medical Director of the Heart and Vascular Intensive Care Unit and Co-lead of the Cardiac Surgery Performance Improvement Initiative at a large quaternary care teaching hospital of the University of Pennsylvania he oversees quality improvement and safety metrics for patients. Dr. Kornfield is Ivy League Educated, completing his B.S. at Columbia University and his M.D. and Anesthesia Residency training at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kornfield completed double fellowship training in Critical Care Medicine and Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at Barnes Jewish Hospital and Washington University in St Louis. He is Triple board certified in Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Advanced Perioperative Echocardiography. Dr. Kornfield is an expert...

Iola, Texas

Anesthesiology - Epidural, Spinal, Nerve block, Intubation, Difficult Airway

RICHMOND, Virginia

Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery - Cardiac Anesthesiology, Thoracic Anesthesiology, Vascular Anesthesiology, Difficult Airway, TEE, Billing, General Anesthesiology

Dr. Ianchulev has graduated medical school from Germany and residency in the US. He completed Fellowship in Cardiovascular and Thoracic anesthesiology at Washington University Barnes-Jewish Hospital and has been since practicing with focus on cardiovascular and thoracic anesthesia. He dedicated his career on quality improvement and led many initiatives while at Tufts Medical Center. His recent appointment to Chief of Anesthesia department at the Veterans Administration hospital and Professor of Anesthesiology at VCU have paved the way for innovation and leadership toward safer and patient centered practice. Dr. Ianchulev has always put safety, knowledge and self-development for the benefit of the patient and healthcare first. He has shown excellent patient management skills and has fostered the bedside manners in the following generations. Actively involved in resident education, Dr. Ianchulev has leveraged innovation and technology to the betterment of skills and knowledge amon...

milwaukee, Wisconsin

Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine - surgical critical care, ACLS / Code, Drug Error, Difficult Airway, Regional Anesthesia, ultrasound, nerve injury, positioning injury, trauma, acute pain, neuromuscular blockade, sedation, intubation / air way injury, opioids, Non-OR anesthesia, propofol, Epidural/spinal, Blood transfusion, OSA, ECMO

I completed my anesthesia training at a level 1 trauma medical center in Detroit Michigan. I then went on to complete my fellowship in critical care medicine in 2018 at a major regional tertiary care center - Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin. I am double boarded in anesthesia and critical care medicine and have been practicing critical care anesthesia as an assistant professor since 2018. I held leadership positions - of being the critical care fellowship program director and journal club director. I created a ultrasound workshop for our residents which lead to a publication in SOCCA. I just recently decided to go out and practice on my own. I continue to practice at other hospitals in Wisconsin. I specialize in all types of anesthesia (airway Management, general anesthesia, Regional anesthesia, intubations, hypoxia, sedation, difficult airway, nerve injury's, Epidurals, opioids, peripheral nerve blocks, PACU, cardiac arrest, surgical critical car. mechano-circulato...