Multiorgan Failure Expert Witnesses

Tarpon Springs, Florida

Nurse, Legal Nurse Consulting - ECMO(Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), ICU (Intensive Care), heart failure, SCAI staging, MCS(Mechanical Circulatory Support), Cardiogenic /septic shock, ARDS/ respiratory failure, CTICU(Cardiothoracic Intensive Care), CRRT, ECPELLA, Heart liver kidney lung Transplant, Multiorgan failure, Impella LVAD RVAD

Certified Critical Care Registered Nurse with extensive experience in Cardiothoracic and Surgical ICUs and perioperative nursing. ECMO Specialist with advanced expertise in extracorporeal life support, Impella, ECPELLA, LVAD, RVAD, and intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) management. SCAI Shock Staging nurse educator with a strong commitment to quality improvement and evidence-based practice. Experienced in the care of diverse high-acuity populations, including patients with heart failure and complex shock states—cardiogenic, septic, mixed, hemorrhagic, and hypovolemic shock—as well as ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, gastrointestinal bleeding, sepsis, and multi-organ failure. Extensive experience managing post–cardiac surgery, transplant, and surgical ICU patients from ENT, plastic surgery, urology, and other perioperative specialties in Magnet-designated, Level I Trauma academic medical centers.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics - Pediatric Critical Care, Pediatric Intensive Care, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Hospitalist, Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care, Pediatric Trauma, sepsis, septic shock, ECMO, Pediatrics, respiratory failure, Pediatric Transport, pneumonia, pulmonary hypertension, multiorgan failure, renal failure, CPR, mechanical ventilation

I have practiced for over 30 years in pediatric critical care medicine and have been medical director of Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis (Tulsa, OK) 20-bed tertiary care PICU from 1998 - 2021. I am currently the Director of Pediatric / Neonatal ECMO at Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock, Texas and also work as a pediatric intensivist at El Paso Children's Hospital in El Paso, Texas. I am board certified in both Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and General Pediatric Medicine. I have significant experience in pediatric critical care, pediatric cardiovascular surgical intensive care, pediatric emergency medicine, and pediatric hospital medicine. I am also well versed in both VV and VA ECMO and have directed ECMO programs (10 annual average cases) for over 25 years. Working in Level 1 (tertiary) PICU's, I have extensive experience with high frequency ventilation (HFOV), inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). I have been a medical ad...