Frostbite Expert Witnesses
Frostbite expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on frostbite. The frostbite expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Aquatics Safety, Burns, Critical Care Surgery, Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Medicine, Trauma Surgery, and Wound Care.
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Ken Zafren, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FAWM
Anchorage, Alaska
Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medical Services
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Emergency Medicine, including Resuscitation, Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack), Stroke, TIA, Pulmonary Embolism, Aortic Dissection, Epidural Abscess, Sepsis, Aneurysm, Appendicitis, Trauma, Spinal Injuries. Environmental Medicine, including Hypothermia, Frostbite, High Altitude, Heat Stroke
EXPERIENCED EXPERT WITNESS
Board Certified - American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and attending physician - Stanford University Hospital (Level I Trauma Center).
Staff physician, Alaska Native Medical Center (Level II Trauma Center)
Former Emergency Programs Medical (EMS) Director, State of Alaska.
American College of Emergency Physicians Award: Hero of Emergency Medicine
Available for consultation, chart review, and testimony for plaintiff or defense.
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Ken Zafren, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FAWM
California
Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medical Services
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Emergency Medicine, including Resuscitation, Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack), Stroke, TIA, Pulmonary Embolism, Aortic Dissection, Epidural Abscess, Sepsis, Aneurysm, Appendicitis, Trauma, Spinal Injuries. Environmental Medicine, including Hypothermia, Frostbite, High Altitude, Heat Stroke
EXPERIENCED EXPERT WITNESS
Board Certified - American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and attending physician - Stanford University Hospital (Level I Trauma Center).
Staff physician, Alaska Native Medical Center (Level II Trauma Center)
Former Emergency Programs Medical (EMS) Director, State of Alaska.
American College of Emergency Physicians Award: Hero of Emergency Medicine
Available for consultation, chart review, and testimony for plaintiff or defense.
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Joshua S Carson, MD, FACS
Burn, Wounds, Trauma and Intensive Care Expert
Loyola University Medical Center
Oak Park, Illinois
Trauma Surgery, Wound Care
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Burns, Burn Care, Burn Surgery, Pediatric burns, Acute wounds, Complex wound care, Frostbite, SJS and TENS, Surgical Critical Care, Inhalation injury, Severe soft tissue infection, Necrotizing fasciitis
Dr. Carson is an academic burn surgeon and intensivist practicing at one of the busiest burn centers in the country. He is board certified in general surgery and surgical critical care. His clinical and academic interests both focus on burn injuries and other injuries to the skin and soft tissues, including both acute management and management of long term sequelae (eg burn reconstruction and scar management). He treats both adult and pediatric patients. Dr. Carson has treated thousands of patients with serious burn injuries, and has published extensively on burn surgery, wound care and related topics. A respected authority in the field of burn care, Dr. Carson is a member of the editorial board of the field's pre-eminent journal (JBCR), and serves on national committees of several burn-related professional associations (American Burn Association, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma).
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Anupama Mehta
Burn Surgeon, Surgical Critical Care
Needham, Massachusetts
Burns, Critical Care Surgery
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Burns, Stevens Johnson Syndrom, TENS, Electrical Burn injury, Scald Burn Injury , Chemical Burn Injury, Flame Burn Injury , Frostbite, Inhalational Injury
Dr. Mehta is an academic burn surgeon and Burn Medical Director of the burn center at Brigham and Women's Hospital which has been verified by the American Burn Association. She is board certified in general surgery and surgical critical care and fellowship trained in Burn surgery. Her clinical and academic interests both focus on burn injuries and other injuries to the skin and soft tissues, including both acute management and management of long term sequelae (eg burn reconstruction and scar management). She treats both adult and pediatric patients. Dr. Mehta has treated thousands of patients with serious burn injuries, and has published extensively on burn surgery, wound care and related topics. She has extensive experience conducting expert witness work including depositions, IME, expert and rebuttal reports.
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Andrew Nathanson, MD, FACEP, FAWM
Emergency Medicine & Water Sports Injuries
Bristol, Rhode Island
Emergency Medicine, Aquatics Safety
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Intubation, Rip Current, Heart Attack, Stroke, Sepsis, Delay in Care, Epidural abscess, Aortic dissection, DVT, Pulmonary Embolism, Ischemia, Frostbite, Fracture, Ectopic Pregnancy, Head trauma, Trauma, Wilderness Medicine, Drowning, Sailing injuries, Surfing injury
Andrew Nathanson, MD, FACEP, FAWM
I am a Board Certified in Emergency Medicine since 1994, and have an active medical license in RI. I am a Professor emeritus of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, having worked full-time clinically at 2 at hospitals for the last 33 years. One, a busy urban academic trauma center, the other a community hospital. I attended Ivy league College and am professor at an Ivy league medical school. Over my career I have been: Director of Quality Assurance, Chair of Morbidity and Mortality conference, served on the BOD of my large academic group, led a Medical School course, served on Peer-Review committees for insurance companies, taught hundreds of Emergency Medicine Residents, and been recipient of numerous teaching and research awards.
I left full-time clinical practice 2/2026 and currently am editing medical journals, writing medical book chapters and lecturing nationally and internationally on topics related to Marin...