Injury Pattern Expert Witnesses
Injury pattern 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 injury pattern. The injury pattern expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Biomechanics and Medical Devices.
Mari S Truman, MS, PE
OrthoBioMech LLC
Warsaw, Indiana
Biomechanics, Medical Devices
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Occupant Motion, Injury Biomechanics, Orthopedics, Medical Product Liability, Duties of Manufacturer, Design, Testing, Manufacturing, Warnings, Instructions for Use, Injury Event Reconstruction, Failure Analysis, Injury Pattern, Soft Tissue Injury, Low Speed Collisions, Falls, Impacts, Sports
Licensed Professional Engineer
Medical Device Design & Development
38+ years orthopaedic device development
12 patents
Testified in State and Federal Courts , Injury Biomechanics and Medical Device Litigation
20+ trials
100+ depositions
38 years of experience in the biomechanics and orthopedics fields, 16 years forensic case analyses.
I routinely deal with forces that are applied to the human body during many activities, including impact and injury scenarios. To assure the safety and efficacy of new medical devices, we define clinically relevant performance requirements for their installation and use, and then test to define the product specific performance characteristics. The physical principles and methods used in orthopedic biomechanics are the same as those used to reconstruct injury events. I am familiar with forces and loads applied to the hips, knees, wrist, shoulder, head, neck, lower back and skeleton in many typical activities, including sitting, walking, jumpin...
