Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome Expert Witnesses

Solon, Iowa

Addiction Medicine, Psychiatry - Opioid use disorder, Alcohol use disorder, Medical Cannabis, Suicide Risk, Buprenorphine, Pain, Encephalopathy, Catatonia, Stimulant use disorder, Overdose, Neuroleptic malignant syndrome

Andrea Weber, MD, is a board-certified internist, psychiatrist, and addiction medicine specialist who cares for patients in clinic and hospital settings. Dr. Weber specializes in caring for people who use drugs, including by not limited to opioids (i.e. heroin, fentanyl), methamphetamine, cocaine, alcohol, tobacco/nicotine, and cannabis. This includes best practices in the use of medications for addiction treatment, such as buprenorphine (Suboxone). Dr. Weber also cares for the physical and mental health of adult patients, specializing in diagnosing and treating conditions that have overlapping psychiatric and physical symptoms, such as catatonia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and encephalopathy. Dr. Weber is a distinguished clinician and educator with over 9 years of experience in eastern Iowa. She is an award-winning educator providing dozens of lectures annually and supervising future healthcare workers in clinic and hospital settings. Dr. Weber is an active researcher with n...

Boston, Massachusetts

Psychiatry, Mental Health - Catatonia, Emergency Psychiatry, Ventricular Arrhythmia, Sudden Cardiac Death, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), Suicide, Malingering, Factitious Disorder, Munchausen , Overdose, Delirium, Risk Assessment, Antipsychotic, Serotonin syndrome, Alcohol withdrawal, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, Lamotrigine, Telepsych, Antidepressant

I am a consultation-liaison and emergency room psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, specializing in the care of patients with co-morbid medical and psychiatric illness. I care for patients with medical complications of psychiatric illness or psychiatric medications, as well as psychiatric complications of medical illness or medications. As an emergency psychiatrist, I regularly perform risk assessment for suicide and harm to others and make decisions about whether patients need to be hospitalized involuntarily. Each week, I see dozens of patients with the following conditions: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, personality disorders, PTSD, Alzheimer’s and other dementias, and TBI. I teach and supervise medical students, residents and fellows on a daily basis. I completed a psychiatry residency at University of Virginia and a fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at Massachusetts General...