Health Economics Expert Witnesses

Broussard, Louisiana

Economics, Business Damages - Economic Loss Analysis, Lost Profits, Labor Economics, Personal Injury, Life Care Plan Valuation, Future Medical Costs, Health Economics, Economic Damages, Commercial Damages, Household Services Valuation, Lost Earnings, Present Value Analysis, Jones Act, Fringe Benefits Valuation, Statistical Analysis, Medical Malpractice

Wesley Austin, Ph.D., is a forensic economist with more than 18 years of experience providing economic loss analyses, expert reports, and litigation consulting services in cases throughout the United States. He has been retained by attorneys, corporations, and government entities to evaluate economic damages and present expert opinions in complex litigation. He has been the lead economist in multi-million dollar personal/commercial settlements. Dr. Austin has prepared numerous economic loss analyses and has been retained in matters across multiple jurisdictions nationwide. He specializes in the quantification of economic losses arising from personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, copyright infringement, maritime claims, commercial disputes, and business interruption matters. His expertise includes lost earnings/lost capacity and fringe benefits, life care plan valuation, future medical cost projections, lost household services, lost profits, and other economic damages...

Boston, Massachusetts

Epidemiology, Internal Medicine - public health, health policy, health economics, causal inference, econometrics, pulmonology, critical care, data analysis, insurance claims, health services, statistics, research, intensive care, hospital, causation, data science, outcomes, artificial intelligence

Dr. Christopher M. Worsham uses epidemiologic and econometric methods to perform large database research on causal associations, physician behavior, resource utilization, and health care policy as a faculty member of Harvard Medical School. He is also a practicing pulmonary and critical care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and applies evidence-based medicine in his provision of health services and evaluation of scientific questions in health care settings. Dr. Worsham has particular research interest in the intensive care unit, for which he has received a career development grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research in Quality. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, The BMJ, and JAMA Internal Medicine. An advocate of public education about medicine, health, statistics, epidemiology, and biomedical sciences, Dr. Worsham coauthored the book "Random Acts of Medicine" and has written for popular publi...