Disability Evaluations Expert Witnesses

Fruita, Colorado

Physical Medicine & Rehab, Independent Medical Examinations - occupational medicine, disability evaluations, post covid diagnosis and treatment, brain injury medicine, orthopedics-non surgical, Pain management, complex regional pain syndrome specialist, slip trip and fall, worker's compensation, Peripheral nerve injuries , electrodiagnostics , EMGs

ELLEN W. PRICE, D.O. 551 Kokopelli Blvd, Suite F, Fruita, Colorado 81521 Phone: (970) 858-2585 | Fax: (970) 858-2555 Email: eprice@fhw.org SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS Board Certifications: American Board of Independent Medical Evaluators (1995) American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (1994, recerted 2003, 2014) American Osteopathic Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (1995 - present) Subspecialty Certification in Pain Medicine (2002) Licenses: Colorado Medical License (1993 - present) Drug Enforcement Agency License (1993 - present) Additional Certifications: Medical Review Officer Certified (1996, recertified 2002, 2005) Certification in Occupational Medicine (AOBPM, 1997) Certification in Acupuncture (CAFCI, 2000) Certification in Evaluation of Disability and Impairment Rating (5th Edition, 2006) Level II certification, Division of Workers Compensation, Colorado (1993-present) EDUCATION Residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation University of Colorado, Den...

Connecticut

Vocational Rehabilitation, Employment - Personal Injury, Workers' Compensation, Labor Market Analysis, LTD/ERISA, Family Law, Pre-Post Injury Analysis, Employability Eval., Disability Evaluations, Whistleblower, Transferable Skills Analysis, Wage Earning Capacity, Job Analysis, Employment Law, Vocational Testing, Job Search Diligence, Vocational Life Care Plans

Ms. Skillin is a nationally Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) and Certified Vocational Evaluator Specialist (CVE). She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Vocational Experts (ABVE/D) and holds the International Psychometric Evaluation Certification (IPEC). Ms. Skillin is a Licensed Rehabilitation Counselor (LRC) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a Qualified Rehabilitation Counselor (QRC) in the State of Rhode Island. As part of her graduate coursework, Ms. Skillin received additional specialized training, in the administration, scoring and interpretation of more sophisticated tests, including the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Memory Scale, among others. As a vocational consultant and expert witness, Ms. Skillin evaluates the employability, wage earnings capacity, potential vocational rehabilitation needs, and job search diligence for both the plaintiff and defendant bar. For nearly 30 years Ms. Skillin has been qualified as a vocational expert...

Belchertown, Massachusetts

Vocational Rehabilitation, Employment - Personal Injury, Workers' Compensation, Labor Market Analysis, LTD/ERISA, Family Law, Pre-Post Injury Analysis, Employability Eval., Disability Evaluations, Whistleblower, Transferable Skills Analysis, Wage Earning Capacity, Job Analysis, Employment Law, Vocational Testing, Job Search Diligence, Vocational Life Care Plans

Ms. Skillin is a nationally Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) and Certified Vocational Evaluator Specialist (CVE). She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Vocational Experts (ABVE/D) and holds the International Psychometric Evaluation Certification (IPEC). Ms. Skillin is a Licensed Rehabilitation Counselor (LRC) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a Qualified Rehabilitation Counselor (QRC) in the State of Rhode Island. As part of her graduate coursework, Ms. Skillin received additional specialized training, in the administration, scoring and interpretation of more sophisticated tests, including the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Memory Scale, among others. As a vocational consultant and expert witness, Ms. Skillin evaluates the employability, wage earnings capacity, potential vocational rehabilitation needs, and job search diligence for both the plaintiff and defendant bar. For nearly 30 years Ms. Skillin has been qualified as a vocational expert...

Manalapan, New Jersey

Telemedicine, Family Medicine - Aerospace medicine, aviation medicine, occupational medicine, fitness for air travel, disability evaluations, impairment evaluation, workplace injuries, return to work, fitness for duty, impairment, family medicine, urgent care

Dr. Govil is a licensed physician in active practice with over 25 years experience. He currently serves as a Senior Ranking Physician for the United States Air Force. Dr. Govil is triple board certified in Family Medicine, Aerospace Medicine, and Occupational Medicine. He holds an MPH from Rutgers Unviersity/John’s Hopkins University School of Public Health. Dr. Govil previously worked as a family physician in private practice, caring for a diverse patient population. He continues to work in an urgent care community setting. He also provides telemedicine care in the specialty of family practice. Dr. Govil has significant teaching experience, and has served as a faculty member in the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine. Dr. Govil has extensive experience evaluating and opining on workplace injury, disability, and occupational injury cases. He has been called upon to express opinions on disability evaluations, patient impairment, workplace injuries, and fitn...

New York, New York

Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry - (IME) Independent Medical Examination, Personal Injury, Conservatorship/Guardianship, Psychopharmacology, Capacity, Medication Side Effects, Disability Evaluations, PTSD Posttraumatic stress disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Medical Malpractice, Behavioral Disturbance, Emotional Distress, Wrongful Termination, Psychosis, Mania

# Nigel I. Kennedy, MBBS, PhD (DIC) ## Board-Certified Clinical Psychiatrist & Neuroscientist ### Independent Medical Examinations (IMEs) | Psychiatric Causation & Standard of Care (NY & CA) Dr. Nigel Kennedy is a Board-Certified, actively practicing clinical psychiatrist, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and neuroscience PhD specializing in independent medical-legal consultation, objective chart audits, and independent medical examinations (IMEs). Dr. Kennedy works with plaintiff and defense counsel and provides rigorous, evidence-based evaluations for complex **Personal Injury**, **Psychiatric Medical Malpractice**, **Workplace Emotional Distress**, and **Pharmaceutical/Device Product Liability** litigation. --- ### Core Areas of Forensic Assessment & Testimony * **Independent Medical Examinations (IMEs) & Causation:** Formulates objective diagnostic formulations to determine proximate legal causation, differentiating incident-related psychological trauma (including PTSD,...

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine - Psychotic Disorders, Schizophrenia, Serious Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disability, Functional Impairment, Psychiatric Standard of Care, Psychiatric Medication, Medical Necessity, Self-Harm, Disability Evaluations, Fitness for Duty, Utilization Review, Community Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, Substance Use Disorders

Daniel W. Bradford, MD, MPH, is a board-certified psychiatrist with more than 23 years of experience in clinical and academic psychiatry, psychiatric assessment, disability evaluation, medical record review, and complex behavioral health consultation. He is board certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University. Dr. Bradford has extensive experience evaluating psychiatric diagnoses, functional impairment, disability, psychiatric treatment, and standards of care. His areas of expertise include serious mental illness, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, mood disorders, suicide and self-harm risk assessment, psychiatric medications, treatment-resistant psychiatric illness, co-occurring disorders, and community-based mental health treatment. For more than two decades, Dr. Bradford has performed psychiatric disability evaluations ...

Cincinnati, Ohio

Physical Medicine & Rehab, Pain Management - Medicine - Life Care Planning, Medical Cost projections, Amputations, Paraplegia, Rehabilitation, Spinal injury, Back Pain, Sciatica, Nerve blocks, Radiculopathy, Spondylosis, Spinal Stenosis, Chronic Pain, Neuropathy, Independent Medical Exams, Complex regional pain syndrome, Quadriplegia, Billing Review, Disability evaluations

Johns-Hopkins Trained, Dual-Board Certified Physiatrist and Pain Management Voted Top Doctor for 7 years Expert Physiatrist, Pain Management Physician, and Life Care Planner I specialize in physiatry and pain management and perform non-surgical orthopedic care, and chronic pain management. I perform independent medical exams, life care plans, disability evaluations, medical cost projections, and billing review. I have over 15 years of experience in various settings, including outpatient private practice and inpatient hospital care. I have active licenses in Ohio, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. My areas of expertise include life care planning, medical cost projections, independent medical evaluations, disability evaluations, spinal injuries, spinal cord injuries, paraplegia, amputations, falls, trauma, motor vehicle accidents, brain injuries, complex regional pain syndrome, back pain, sciatica, nerve blocks, spondylosis, spinal stenosis, chronic pain, and neuropathy.

Cove, Oregon

Orthopedic Surgery - Spine and spine surgery, Malpractice, Case reviews, Sports medicine, Disability, Peer review, General orthopedic surgery, Orthopedics non-surgical, Joint replacement, IMEs, Disability evaluation

I am a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon in private practice with 31 years of civilian and 8 years of military (4 Residency and 4 Staff) experience in Orthopedic Surgery. I have developed an interest in IME and Legal Expert examinations due to my interest in teaching, which is what I view the role of an expert. I have attended the SEAK conference on expert testimony, the AMA course on IMEs and currently spend about 80% of my practice time "Forensic Orthopedics," i.e. IMEs and legal expert testimony. I am licensed in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, and Alaska. I am an experienced expert witness.

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

Psychiatry - Psychiatry, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, Disability Evaluations, Peer Review, Independent Medical Examinations, Employment, Medical Record Review, Fitness for Duty, Medical Malpractice

I am a Board-Certified psychiatrist and have had extensive clinical and forensic psychiatric experience throughout my career. I have performed hundreds of forensic evaluations, including IMEs, disability determination, return to work and worker’s compensation evaluations. I have been an expert witness in dozens of cases involving civil litigation, including victims of sexual abuse and employment issues, as well as medical malpractice defense regarding plaintiff's claims of psychiatric injury. In the course of my career, I have been deposed multiple times and have also testified in court on a number of occasions. I have been in private practice for over 30 years treating a wide variety of patients. In addition, I was a Residency Training Director for seven years, Medical Director of a psychiatric hospital for seven years, worked in two correctional facilities for three years and currently work in a Department of Veterans Affairs’ outpatient clinic. I have also taught Drexel U...

Dallas, Texas

Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine - Spine Care, Orthopedics Non-Surgical, Disability Evaluation, Fracture, Total Joint, Shoulder, Knee, Lower Extremity

Neal Small, M.D. has been in the private practice of orthopedic surgery for over 35 years. Dr. Small has performed over 15,000 orthopedic surgical procedures. Dr. Small's areas of clinical expertise include issues involving the knee, shoulder and spine. Dr. Small is a past president of the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA). Dr. Small has performed hundreds of independent medical examinations (IME's) and thousands of medical file reviews as an expert. Dr. Small has provided expert testimony in numerous depositions and courtroom appearances.