Heavy Metals Expert Witnesses

San Diego, California

Occupational Medicine, Public Health - Chemical Exposures, Heat Injuries, Asbestos, Dust, Mold, Air Quality, Heavy Metals, Radiation, Toxicology, Fitness for Duty, Return to Work, Malingering, Stress, Violence, PTSD, Personal Injury, Disability, Chronic Pain, Telemedicine, Primary Care

Harvard Instructor of Physicians, Harvard-trained (Residency & MPH), double board-certified, full-time practicing physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Public Health, and General Preventive Medicine. Medical expert work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the World Health Organization (WHO), American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), and MDGuidelines®. Published original research on Long Term and Short Term Disability in ACOEM’s Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and chapter author of Psychological Factors and Workforce Health in ACOEM’s Occupational Health Guide. Published with the World Health Organization in the Journal of Infectious Disease on Ebola infections in health care workers. His involvement in the coronavirus (COVID-19) response includes instructing medical, health, and safety professionals, creating policies and procedures, directing preventive medicine and public health, mitigating transmiss...

Fresno/Coarsegold, California

Indoor Air Quality, Industrial Hygiene - Asbestos, Lead, Heavy metals, Environmental Contamination, Indoor Air Quality, Occupational Health, Workers Compensation, Workplace Wrongful Death, Chemical Exposures, Drug Labs, Nicotine, Methamphetamine, Solvents, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's), Mold, Microbiological Contamination, Real Estate

Professor, Environmental Health/Industrial Hygiene, Department of Public Health, California State University Fresno, for 35 years. 40 years' experience providing consultations services in numerous US States to Local, State and Federal Government Agencies (IRS, US Post Office, US Navy, US Airforce, US Army, National Parks Service, and many others), Insurance companies, Law Firms, building owners (public, commercial and private), and private industry including many top 500 fortune companies. Extensive experience testifying in Federal Court, State Superior Courts, Workers Compensation Appeals Boards with an exceptionally high success rate. Extensive experience in depositions, trial preparation, jury selection and other matters to ensure a successful outcome at trial.

Englewood, Colorado

Epidemiology, Toxicology - Environmental Health, Occupational Health, Exposure Assessment, Pesticides Herbicides, VOCs, Chemical Mixtures, Environmental Epidemiology, Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Benzene, Fuel, Cigarette Smoke, Heavy metals, Asphalt, Preventive medicine, Air pollution, Particulate Matter, DNA Damage, Cancer, PCBs

I have over 20 years of experience as a researcher, principal investigator, and consultant in public health with a focus on environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, and toxicology. I authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications in environmental and occupational health and epidemiology. My PhD and later work heavily focused on environmental and occupational studies, assessing human exposures to chemical mixtures and their link to health outcomes. I designed and directed population-based studies, including roofers, welders, coke oven workers, and Air Force personnel. Over the last few years, I have been an expert witness in legal cases evaluating toxic exposures, reviewing existing literature, and preparing reports. For example, I recently prepared a report summarizing my findings on the link between glyphosate exposures and the risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Some examples of the chemical mixtures I worked on are: - Pesticides, Herbicides - Camp Lejeune Water Contamination...

Atlanta, Georgia

Toxicology, Pharmacology- Clinical - Emergency Medicine, Pharmacokinetics, Alcohol Intoxication, Drugs of Abuse, Opioids, Fentanyl, Envenomation, Poisoning, Overdose, DUI, Kratom, Mushrooms, Hospital Pharmacy, Antidotes, Heavy Metals, Pesticides, Urine Drug Screen, Drug Testing, Blood Testing, Withdrawal

Patrick Filkins, PharmD, BCPS, DABAT obtained a BS in Biochemistry at SUNY Old Westbury and a Doctorate of Pharmacy at the University of Saint Joseph School of Pharmacy and Physician Assistant studies. Following pharmacy school he completed residency at Grady Memorial Health System in Atlanta, Georgia and subsequently a clinical toxicology fellowship at the Georgia Poison Center. He is currently board-certified in toxicology (DABAT) and pharmacotherapy (BCPS). He is a practicing clinical toxicologist at the Georgia Poison Center, emergency medicine clinical pharmacist at Grady Memorial Health System, and an adjunct instructor of emergency medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine. He also serves on the board of directors for the American Board of Applied Toxicology (ABAT). He has multiple publications in the field of toxicology. His research interests include toxic alcohols, acetaminophen toxicity, snake envenomation, and the management of opi...

Newton, Massachusetts

Occupational Medicine, Toxicology - Truck & Transport Accidents, Aerotoxicity (Aerotoxic Syndrome), Covid-19, Firefighters, Police, Cardiovascular, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Apnea, Sleep medicine, Chemical Sensitivities, Environmental Intolerances, Mold, Latex Allergy, Record Review, Causation Analyses, Heavy Metals, Toxicology

Dr. Kales is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is Professor & Director of the Occupational Medicine Residency at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and has produced over 225 publications. He is the Chief of Occupational Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Kales has conducted numerous IMEs, chart reviews and has served as an expert for various Governmental Agencies, Insurance Companies, Corporations and Attorneys. He is Board-certified in both Occupational Medicine and was previously trained and certified in Internal Medicine. Dr. Kales' reports are timely, objective and yield scientific, objective, consistent, convincing opinions. He also has significant experience with deposition and trial testimony.

NEW YORK, New York

Nutrition, Food - Failure to Thrive, Malnutrition, TPN, Parenteral Nutrition, Tubefeed, Infant Formula, Formula Mixing, Breast Milk, Refeeding Syndrome, Thiamine, Iron, Zinc, Copper, B12, Nutrient Deficiency, Rickets, Osteopenia, Food Allergy, Heavy Metals, Dietician

Priscilla Barr has been a Registered Dietitian for 19 years, specializing in neonatal, pediatric and obstetrical nutrition. During her career she has worked at top US teaching hospitals, including NYU Langone Health and currently New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell. Priscilla has extensive experience in pediatric nutrition, especially in infancy, toddlerhood and pregnancy. Her responsibilities include evaluating the growth and nutritional status of infants and children, and coming up with nutrition care plans for them including the management of parenteral nutrition (TPN), breastfeeding and infant formula, tube-feeding, specialized diets, as well as vitamin and mineral supplementation . Patients are followed up after discharge in the neonatal follow up clinic where infant and toddler nutrition education is further discussed. She has also cross covers obstetrical patients teaching them about pregnancy nutrition, and the management of diabetes and hyperemesis in pregna...

Huntington, New York

Toxicology, Pharmacology - Forensic toxicology, alcohol, drugs of abuse, dui, dwi, dram shop, prescription pain drugs, cocaine, heroin, pcp, amphetamine, overdose, carbon monoxide, lead, heavy metals, opiates, marijuana, THC

Dr. Richard Stripp is a nationally recognized expert in toxicology providing services in all aspects of a clinical and forensic toxicology. He has served as an expert consultant in 100’s of cases in the field of toxicology and pharmacology for attorneys, investigators, and physicians involved in forensic and clinical toxicological evaluations associated with ethanol, drugs of abuse, prescription medications and chemical exposure. Dr. Stripp provides unbiased expert case reviews involving drug effect on human performance, toxicity of iatrogenic/ therapeutic agents, lead and other toxic metals, carbon monoxide and environmental/occupational hazards. These services include, impartial evaluations involving drug impairment, overdose, toxic chemical exposure, medical issues associated with drug therapy, poisoning, and the role of drugs, alcohol, or chemical exposure in civil and criminal litigation. This covers a full breath of forensic medical-legal cases