Infant Expert Witnesses

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Legal Nurse Consulting, Nurse - Pediatrics, Medical chart review, Acute hospital care, Long term care, Adolescent, Sexual Assault, Analysis, Neonatal, Medical billing, Report writing, Abuse, Review, Infant, Medical coding, Wrongful death, Expert witness, Intensive care, Adult

CERTIFIED * EXPERIENCED * SPECIALIZED * INTEGRATED * COMPASSIONATE CERTIFIED: Board Certified MSN, RN, SANE-A EXPERIENCED: Justice Forensics offers over 33 years in professional nursing practice, 10 years of experience on the nursing faculty at the University of Arkansas. Current Director at Large for the Arkansas Forensic Nursing Association, 10 years Clinical and Didactic pediatric Instructor at the Fort Smith campus, and experience in: acute care hospitals, pediatrics, neonatal intensive care, Infant and pediatric ICU, special care nursery, OB/post-partum, and long-term pediatric care. Our team also has over 20 years of medical billing and coding. SPECIALIZED: Pediatric and neonatal care. Forensic Nurse Examiner, SANE-A, with expertise in sexual abuse and assault, anogenital findings, injury interpretation for sexual contact and sexual assault, forensic evidence collection, chain of custody compliance and analysis, forensic photography, and medical records. INTEGRATED: O...

San Diego, California

Pediatrics, Child Abuse - Pediatrician, Pediatrics, Child Abuse, Children, Newborn, Neonate, Neonatal, Nursery, Telemedicine, Emergency, Urgent care, Infant, Teen, Hospitalist, Child Injury, Developmental Delay

Dr. Naomi Lawrence-Reid is a board-certified pediatrician and Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics with more than 15 years of post-graduate clinical experience across academic and community hospital settings in California. Her clinical expertise spans the full pediatric age range — from premature newborns through adolescence. Areas of specialty include: Neonatal & Newborn Medicine, Prematurity, hyperbilirubinemia, birth injury, hypoglycemia, prenatal substance exposure, respiratory distress syndrome, newborn screening abnormalities, Infectious disease, gastrointestinal, respiratory, allergic, and dermatologic conditions; sepsis; dehydration; routine preventive care, child Abuse & Neglect, Diagnosis, reporting obligations, and standard of care in civil and criminal matters. Dr. Lawrence-Reid has served on hospital quality improvement committees with direct responsibility for adverse event review and patient safety initiatives, giving her firsthand familiarity with institut...

South Miami, Florida

Pediatric Surgery, General Surgery - surgeon, pediatric surgeon, surgery, pediatric surgery, surgery expert, expert, pediatrician, doctor, appendix, appendicitis, baby, infant, child, teen, adolescent, youth

After completing his undergraduate education at Yale University, Dr. Colin Knight earned his medical degree at the University of Virginia. Following a surgical internship at UVA, Dr. Knight served as a Flight Surgeon in the United States Air Force. In that capacity, he served as a primary care physician, occupational and travel medicine specialist, aircraft mishap investigator, and human factors consultant, and served on multiple deployments within the United States and overseas. He then completed surgical training at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and pediatric surgery training at the Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit. Dr. Colin Knight was an attending surgeon at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami, where he trained medical students, surgery residents, and pediatric surgery fellows for over a decade. He now practices at HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce, Florida. In addition to faculty appointments at Florida International University and Florida Stat...

Lake Worth, Florida

Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine - NICU, neonatal, neonatal intensive care, transition, fetal loss, prematurity, birth asphyxia, birth trauma, birth defects, congenital abnormalities, premature, hypoglycemia, low birth weight, nursery, newborn, HIE, full body cooling, baby, infant, central lines

• 18 years of Neonatal Intensive Care nursing experience (including bedside nurse, clinical manager, and assistant nurse manager positions) All experience in level III NICUs. • Four advanced Neonatal Nursing certifications: -Certification in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing (RNC-NIC) -CCRN-Neonatal certification -Certification in Extremely Low Birth Weight infants (C-ELBW) -Certification in Neonatal Neuro-Intensive Care (C-NNIC) • Extensive experience in providing direct patient to care to complex and critically ill neonates, including: ELBW infants, LBW infants, post-delivery stabilization, pre- and post-op surgical infants, full body cooling, EEG monitoring, exchange transfusions, as well as, providing NRP resuscitation efforts to critically unstable neonates • Attends high-risk deliveries including post-delivery stabilization and resuscitation o...

Melbourne , Florida

Pediatrics - Newborn, Infant, Children, Teenager, Adolescent, Primary Care, Hip Dysplasia, Standard of Care, Billing and Coding, Jaundice, Behavior, ADHD, Asthma, Vaccines, Child Abuse, Immunizations, RSV, GERD, Breastfeeding, Medication Errors

Dr. Kimberly Graziano is a Board Certified Pediatrician serving children from birth to 18. Dr. Graziano founded Pelican Pediatrics of Sebastian, Florida in 2005, serving patients of east central Florida for 20 years. She is highly regarded in her community and is on staff at Orlando Health/ Sebastian River Medical Center. She practices evidence based medicine and is skilled at diagnostic dilemmas. Dr. Graziano understands current standards of care and provides opinions based solely on facts. She does work for both plaintiff and defense. Additionally, Dr. Graziano is a Peer Reviewer for the State of Florida Department of Health, a Disability Appeals Reviewer for Social Security Administration and a consultant for the Chartis Group. She was recruited as a hands-on pediatrician for Emvenio’s Embold and Emerald clinical trials and is clinically active in these projects. This year she has begun educating the next generation of physicians at Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr...

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Pediatrics - Newborn, Infant, Adolescent, Vaccines, Diabetes, Meningitis, Emergency, General Pediatrics

David A. Rusk, MD is the president of Pediatric Associates, Inc. and is a board-certified pediatrician with 20+ years of experience in private practice. As a faculty member of the Indiana University School of Medicine and as a general pediatrician, Dr. Rusk has extensive educational expertise, having taught nurses, medical students and residents for 20 years. He has experience in case review, medical malpractice panels and courtroom testimony. As the founder of the pediatric diabetes outpatient program at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, IN, he has a particular area of expertise in outpatient diabetes management in addition to a broad fund of knowledge in pediatric care from birth through adolescence.

Garden City, New York

Pediatrics, Developmental Disabilities - swallow, Feeding, bottle, breastfeeding, NICU, infant, neonate, premature, preterm, dysphagia, aspiration, airway compromise, swallow study, therapy, therapist, speech pathologist, meals, eating, diagnosis, treatment

Dr. Louisa is an internationally sought out mentor, advisor, consultant, presenter and clinical specialists on all topics related to neonatal/pediatric feeding and swallowing development and disorders. She has earned a doctoral degree in speech and language pathology and holds additional specialization as a: · Board Certified Specialist in Swallowing and Swallowing disorders · Board Certified Neonatal Therapist · Certified Lactation Counselor · Neonatal Touch and Massage Certified Therapist · Trauma-Informed Professional Dr. Louisa has over 15 years of clinical experience working with medically fragile infants and children. Her clinical focus is on NICU infants and supporting parents as they learn all about their new, unique infant. As an active researcher, Dr. Louisa and her team at NYU Langone aim to advance the evidence to support appropriate feeding practices for infants admitted to the NICU and beyond. She publishes her research in high-standing...

Poughkeepsie, New York

Pediatrics - General pediatrics, General Pediatric care, Pediatric Standard of Care, Pediatric, Community pediatrics, Outpatient pediatrics, Board Certified, Newborn, infant, adolescent, infections, hip dysplasia, respiratory illness, Pediatric emergencies, documentation, nursery

Dr. Herschel Lessin has been a practicing Pediatrician from 1982 - 2023, and has served as an expert witness in Pediatric malpractice litigation since 1987, working for both plaintiff and defense. Trained at Stanford and Yale, Dr. Lessin has experience in case review as well as both deposition and trial testimony. He was a founding member and Vice President of one of the larger US single specialty Pediatric practices with 8 locations and 26 clinicians, His practice includes children from birth through college. Dr. Lessin is active on a national policy level, having been co-lead author on several American Academy of Pediatrics policy statements and technical reports, as well as being a member of the authoring committee on several others. He is co-editor of the 2019 AAP ADHD Toolkit. He reviews a majority of AAP policy statements making comments for possible revision as needed. He has been a member of the Committee on Practice/Ambulatory Medicine and the Payer Advocacy Advisory Commi...

HUNTERSVILLE, North Carolina

Internal Medicine, Pediatrics - Internist, Children, emergency, primary care, elder abuse, Pediatrician, Adults, urgent care, child injury, polypharmacy, Internal Medicine, newborn, infant, developmental delay, Medication Errors, Child abuse, Neonate, hospitalist, hospice, Adverse Drug Reactions

Dr. Daly is double board-certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and is a diplomate of both the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics. She has over six years of post-graduate experience diagnosing and treating a wide variety of medical illnesses affecting patients across the entire lifespan from newborns and infants to adolescents and geriatric adults. In her Internal Medicine practice, Dr. Daly manages a comprehensive range of acute and chronic adult conditions. She has significant experience in the diagnosis and management of critical adult concerns frequently seen in medical-legal cases, including sepsis, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction (heart attack), and acute respiratory failure. Her expertise includes the management of complex chronic diseases such as hypertension, heart failure, COPD, and diabetes mellitus, including the optimization of A1c levels in high-risk populations. Dr. Daly is a specialist in Transitional Medicine,...

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mental Health, Pediatrics - Children, Infant, Early Childhood, child development, trauma, foster care, baby, toddler, anxiety, kids, adoption, attachment

Erin is a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in early childhood social emotional needs, particularly attachment, grief & loss, trauma and anxiety. With special attention to issues related to childhood mental health concerns and issues that contribute to that such as foster care, adoption, trauma, divorce etc... Erin Continues to practice in Pennsylvania and supervises multiple providers in their provision of services to children and families as well. Erin has trained in Multiple states on Infant and early childhood attachment. She has spent 20 years in the field with experiences in multiple spaces such as outpatient care, Early Intervention, Partial Hospitalization, non profit programs, child welfare, Intensive Behavioral Health Services. Pa Licensed Professional Counselor Endorsed Infant Mental Health Professional Member of the PA State Advisory Council on Early Education and Care PA Association for Infant Mental Health Board appointment Adjunct Faculty at the Univers...

KAUFMAN, Texas

Speech-Language Pathology - SWALLOWING, SWALLOWING DISORDERS, INFANT, NICU, ICU, ASPIRATION, VOCAL FOLDS, SWALLOW STUDY, FEES, HYPOXIA, ANOXIA, CHOKE, STROKE, INTUBATION, DYSPHAGIA, ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA, ASPHYIXATION, MOTHER/BABY, BREASTFEEDING, BOTTLE FEEDING

Casey Lewis is a medical Speech-Language Pathologist, Board Certified Specialist- Swallowing & Swallowing Disorders, Certified Neonatal Therapist, Certified Lactation Counselor, & Endoscopist. She owns and operates TexScope LLC, a Texas based mobile swallowing diagnostic company that specializes in Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing. TexScope partners with critical access hospitals, acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities and private practices, serving as their swallowing diagnostic expert. She is a respected expert in the field of Speech-Language Pathology and specializes in swallowing disorders across the lifespan. She is an active expert witness and is a sought-out speaker and educator both in the US and across the world. She is the creator of NICU Oral Feeding Algorithm, which aids medical teams in clinically navigating oral feeding decision-making within the NICU space. Casey has been an invited speaker at 14 universitie...

Sandy, Utah

Pediatrics - General Pediatrics, Child abuse, Child neglect, Standard of care, Failure to thrive, Outpatient, Urgent care, Primary care, Telemedicine, Behavior, Development, Evidence-based medicine, Nutrition, Vaccines, Infant, Children, Teens, Newborns

Dr. Monica Schwarz Josten is a Stanford-trained board-certified general pediatrician in active clinical practice. She works at a busy private practice clinic as a primary care physician, where she sees thousands of patients each year for routine well care, growth and development, vaccinations, urgent medical needs, and mental health and behavioral concerns. In addition, she also does newborn rounds at four hospitals in the Salt Lake Valley and is experienced in telemedicine. She participates in regular CME activities to ensure she is up to date with evidence-based recommendations and standard of care practices per the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines.