Newborn Expert Witnesses

Newborn 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 newborn. The newborn expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Child Abuse, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, General Practice, Internal Medicine, Legal Nurse Consulting, Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine, Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Hospitalist, and Pediatrics.

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Naomi E Lawrence-Reid, MD

Board-certified Pediatrician | Newborn Hospitalist

Doctoring Differently®

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...
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Yolanda Lau, MD

Board-Certified Pediatrician| Multi-state Licenses

Alameda, California
Pediatrics, General Practice - pediatrics, infant, adolescent, child, child neglect, child abuse, teenager, outpatient, newborn, primary care, Asthma, developmental delay, telemedicine, neonatal jaundice, infant formula, behavior, routine health check, urgent care, circumcision, vaccines
Dr. Lau is a board-certified pediatrician with over 10 years of clinical experience in outpatient general primary care pediatrics, inpatient newborn care, urgent care, and telemedicine. Her expertise includes care for children from birth through age 18 with a focus on growth and development, behavior, preventative care, vaccines, asthma, nutrition and formula guidance, developmental delays, and common pediatric medical conditions. Dr. Lau also has procedural experience in newborn plastibell circumcisions. In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Lau has experience in physician review and utilization management, including medical necessity determinations, level-of-care assessments, and application of evidence-based guidelines. She has served in consulting roles supporting healthcare organizations, contributing to clinical policy interpretation, quality review, and healthcare technology initiatives. Dr. Lau completed her medical training in California. She matriculated from UCSF Schoo...
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Michele Alba, MD

Loveland, Colorado
Family Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology - Primary Care, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics, Newborn, Cancer Screening, Cesarean, Childbirth, Chronic Pain, Diabetes, Drug Interaction, Failure to Diagnose/Refer, Fetal Heart Monitoring, Hospital Infections, Hypertension, Hemorrhage, Pre-Eclampsia, Sepsis, Shoulder Dystocia, Uterine Rupture, VBAC
As a board-certified family medicine physician with fellowship training in high-risk maternal child health, Dr. Alba practices full-scope family medicine with surgical obstetrics in Northern Colorado. She currently serves as faculty physician at one of the nation's top family medicine residency training programs with over 5 years of clinical experience. While her expertise includes primary care, addiction medicine, and women's health, Dr. Alba's breadth of knowledge spans inpatient and outpatient geriatric, adult, pediatric and obstetric medicine. She oversees medical students, residents, midwives, and mid-level providers. She is passionate about patient safety and quality improvement and holds leadership roles on both Family Medicine and Obstetrics Safety Net Boards at her current institution. Dr. Alba is known for her curious mindset, thoughtful analytical skills, and excellent communication abilities both written and verbal. She is able to translate complex information into tang...
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Lucas Hennings, M.D., FACEP, FAAEM

Emergency Medicine legal consultant/expert witness

Colorado Springs, Colorado
Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine - Hyperbaric medicine, pediatrics, aesthetic medicine, urgent care, trauma, toxicology, geriatrics, ob/gyn emergencies, substance abuse, paramedics, physician assistant supervision, nurse practitioner supervision, accidents, Motor vehicle collisions, rural medicine, farming medicine, industrial accidents, multispecialty, EMS, newborn
Hello: I am writing to offer my services as an emergency medicine legal consultant and expert witness. I am a board-certified, residency-trained emergency physician with over 15 years of clinical experience in high-acuity, high-volume emergency departments (mainly level 1 trauma centers), where I routinely manage complex trauma and critically ill medical patients. My practice also includes freestanding emergency departments as well as rural and critical access hospitals, providing me with a broad perspective across diverse care settings. I have extensive experience in legal consulting and expert witness work for both defense and plaintiff cases. I have comprehensive expertise in all phases of the legal process, including case review, expert report preparation, attorney collaboration, depositions, and trial testimonies. I am a member of the American Bar Association. My case experience spans traditional medical malpractice as well as complex and non-traditional matters, including ...
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Richard J. Auerbach, MD, FAAP

Standard of Care Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

MD Consult Services

Sandy Hook, Connecticut
Pediatrics - Board Certified Pediatrician, Lyme tick disease, Newborn, Development, Behavior, Asthma, ADHD, Pediatrics, Sexual / Child Abuse / Neglect, Vaccines, Custody, Meningitis Serious Bacterial Infections, Trauma, SIDS, RSV, GERD, dehydration, breastfeeding, weight loss, jaundice
Richard Auerbach, MD has been a general pediatrician and assistant professor of pediatrics since 1998. He completed a chief residency and hospitalist year following training at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. He remains active on staff at Danbury Hospital / Western CT Health Network. As an Associate Professor of clinical pediatrics through the Universities of CT and VT, and Ross University, he has taught countless medical students and residents, as well as participating in weekly CME activities. Recently, he and his wife, Julia Auerbach, MD JD, established MD Consult Services. The goal of this endeavor is to provide comprehensive medical opinions for case reviews and legal proceedings in the areas of Pediatrics (Richard) and Family Medicine (Julia). Both are Board certified in their respective fields and highly regarded in the communities in which they work. MDConsult Services has provided numerous comprehensive case reviews for attorneys. Both physicians are available fo...
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Marisa Palomino, BSN, CCRN, RNC-NIC, C-ELBW, C-NNIC

Neonatal Nurse Expert

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...
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Kimberly Graziano, MD, FAAP

Board Certified Pediatrician

Pelican Pediatrics Founder

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...
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Jared Friedman, MD

Pediatric/Pediatric Emergency and ALL Peds Cases

Miami, Florida
Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine - Child, Toddler, Newborn, Teen, Adol, Pediatric, Emergency, ER, Trauma, Surgery, Abuse, Neglect, Sepsis, Respiratory, URI, Asthma, Pneumonia, Meningitis, Fever, Allergy
*PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN - Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital - Memorial Healthcare System - Hollywood, Florida *CLINICAL AFFILIATE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN PEDIATRICS- Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine - Florida Atlantic University (FAU) *CORE CLINICAL FACULTY - Pediatric/Pediatric ER Educator, Mentor, and Lecturer for Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Residents - Joe DiMaggio Children Hospital - Memorial Healthcare System - Hollywood, Florida *MEDIAL DIRECTOR - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care (PPEC) in South Florida *ON-LINE MEDICAL CONTROL/MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD - Hatzalah - Not-for-Profit Community-Based State-Certified EMT/Paramedic Organization in South Florida *STARDOC - EXCLUSIVE PEDIATRIC CONCIERGE HOME SERVICES *EXPERT MEDICAL WITNESS IN EVERYTHING PEDIATRICS/PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE RELATED *AUTHOR AND PRESENTER: Numerous Book Chapters, Journal and Magazine Articles, Podium and Poster Presentations, and CME Courses! *PEDIATRICS -...
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Kimberly Judd, MD, MHA, FAAP

Expert in Neonatalogy and Pediatric infant care

Coeur D Alene, Idaho
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine, Pediatrics - brain injury, HIE, respiratory distress syndrome, neonatology, necrotizing enterocolitis, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, BPD, newborn, infant death, birth asphyxia, NICU staffing, prematurity, infant injury, neonatal infection, baby care, birth injury, NEC, neonatal sepsis, standards of NICU care
Dr. Kimberly Judd, MD MHA is a double board certified physician in Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal medicine. She has nearly 20 years of clinical experience as a physician, 15 years as a Neonatologist and over 5 years experience providing expert witness work for both public and private-firm cases involving injury to neonates and infants. She specializes in Neonatal-Perinatal (Neonatology) cases involving infants as young as periviable gestational ages (22-23weeks) up to one year of age. Her goal is to provide complete and thorough review of records to provide assessments and opinions that are rooted in evidence-based quality care for neonates in an effort to help clients to make informed decisions about their case.
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David A Rusk, MD

Pediatric Associates, Inc.

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.
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Gabriel J Hauser, MD, MBA, FCCM

Pediatric Critical Care Physician - Georgetown

Medstar Georgetown University Hospital

Rockville, Maryland
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics - sepsis, cardiac arrest, resuscitation, pediatrics, critical care, pneumonia, respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, newborn, brain injury, infection, respiratory distress, stridor, heart failure, meningitis, child abuse, bronchiolitis, asthma, shock, airway obstruction
I am a practicing pediatric intensive care physician. I also practice pediatric sedation. I have practiced pediatric intensive care since 1989. I am professor of Pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine. In the past I have held the positions of Chief Medical Officer at St. Christopher Hospital for Children, Director of the Pediatric ICU Director of Pediatric Inpatient Services and Vice Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, and in these roles I have dealt with the Standard of Care for pediatricians and pediatric specialists. I am board certified in Pediatrics and in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and am a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. I have been serving as expert witness for over 25 years. My areas of expertise are acute, emergency and critical care pediatrics and pediatric sedation.
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Dr. Nasim Gorji, DO, FAAP

Neonatologist - Harvard Medical Faculty Physician

Boston, Massachusetts
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine - Neonatology, Neonatal ICU, Birth injury, Birth trauma, Birth defects, Newborn resuscitation, Newborn, Prematurity, Low birth weight, Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), Hypoglycemia, Jaundice, Neonatal infection (sepsis), Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), Cooling
Dr. Nasim Gorji, DO is a board-certified neonatologist employed by Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians with a decade of experience managing critically ill newborns in both academic and community neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). She attends high risk deliveries, stabilizes these newborns in the delivery room, and cares for medically complex neonates for months after their birth. She also has extensive experience stabilizing critically ill neonates for transport to higher-level tertiary care hospitals. She is a distinguished educator, having held academic appointments as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and interim Associate Program Director of a Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship program in the Boston area. Her expertise extends to curriculum development, where she has designed and implemented educational programs for medical students, residents, and fellows. Dr. Gorji is a leader in neonatal resuscitation, serving as an instructor who trains multidisciplinary teams in l...
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Natasha Shapiro, MD

Neonatologist Attending, Level 3 NICU

Rego Park, New York
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine, Pediatrics - Neonatology, Neonatologist, NICU, Periviable, Newborn, Resuscitation, NRP, Simulation, Director, Education, HIE, Prematurity, Baby, NEC, Formula, Breastfeeding, Sepsis, Intubation, Hypothermia, Seizures
Natasha Shapiro, MD is a board-certified neonatologist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College. She serves as an attending physician in the Division of Neonatology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens, where she has practiced since 2016, and since 2024 has been the Director of the Newborn Simulation and Education Program. Dr. Shapiro earned her B.A. from Columbia University and her M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital, followed by a Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship at NYU Langone Medical Center and a Simulation Education fellowship at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is double board-certified in General Pediatrics (2013) and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (2018). Her clinical expertise spans neonatal intensive care, resuscitation, perinatal counseling, breastfeeding education, and healthcare quality improvement. She has spearheaded several innovative programs, including t...
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Herschel Lessin, MD

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...
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Shaoleen K Daly, MD

Board Certified in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics

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,...
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Karen L Lefler, MSN/Ed, APRN, NNP-BC

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner/NICU RN Expert Witness

ACP Legal Nurse Consulting, LLC

Sneads Ferry, North Carolina
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine, Nurse Practitioner - Newborn, HIE, brain inury, Birth Injury, bowel perforation, central line, Prematurity, low birth weight, umbilical catheter, PICC, sepsis, hypoglycemia, bilirubin, resuscitation, chest tube, intubation, arterial line, body cooling, home birth, respiratory failure
40 years of experience in the field of Neonatology/Newborn Care of which the past 30 years as a Board-Certified Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, primarily functioning in the maximum level of Neonatal Intensive Care Units (Level IV). Actively working in NICU. Areas of expertise include EPI (Extremely Premature Infant), brain injury (therapeutic hypothermia/total body cooling), infants with respiratory failure, ECMO (heart/lung bypass), congenital heart defects, high risk neonatal deliveries, meconium aspiration of the newborn, care of medically complicated infants (infants with tracheostomies and feeding tubes), pediatric cardio-thoracic surgical infants, Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn (PPHN), routine newborn care and neonatal resuscitation. Services provided: *Review medical records and provide expert witness verbal or written report *Identify standards of care and deviations from those standards *Analysis of opposition expert's depositions *Aid in the identificati...
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Amy J Sloane, MD, MHS, FAAP

Neonatologist/Assistant Professor

Nemours Children's Health at Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine - neonatal, sepsis, NICU, newborn, infection, obstetrics, prematurity, premature, HIE, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, NEC, necrotizing enterocolitis
Amy J. Sloane, MD, MHS, FAAP is an Attending Neonatologist and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Nemours Children’s Health at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. She also serves as the Associate Program Director for the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program. Dr. Sloane is board-certified in both General Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. Dr. Sloane provides clinical care in both academic and community Level III neonatal intensive care units. Her clinical responsibilities include attending high-risk deliveries, managing critically ill neonates, providing complex perinatal consultations, and caring for newborns in the well-baby nursery. Her practice encompasses the full spectrum of neonatal care from delivery room resuscitation through ongoing intensive care and discharge planning. In her role as Fellowship Associate Program Director, Dr. Sloane has extensive experience in teaching and supervising medical students, pediatric residents, and neonatal-pe...
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Dustin D Flannery, DO, MSCE

Academic Neonatologist

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine, Pediatrics - Neonatal infection, neonatal sepsis, group B strep, GBS, prematurity, premature, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, NICU, newborn, obstetrics, HIE
Dustin Daniel Flannery, DO, MSCE, is a board-certified neonatologist with more than a decade of clinical experience in neonatal-perinatal medicine and pediatrics. He practices in both Level III and Level IV academic neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), where he manages critically ill premature and term infants, attends high-risk deliveries, provides perinatal consultations, and cares for newborns in the well nursery setting. His clinical practice spans routine newborn care as well as intensive care management of critically ill preterm and term infants, including resuscitation, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, extreme prematurity, respiratory failure, and other complex neonatal conditions. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Flannery is an established physician-scientist and clinical epidemiologist with extensive experience in neonatal infectious diseases, neonatal outcomes research, and pharmacoepidemiology. He has authored more than 75 peer-reviewed publications, abstracts...
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Kimberly C. Halliburton, BS, RN, C-EFM

Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing

Kimberly Halliburton

Dickson, Tennessee
Nurse, Obstetrics & Gynecology - Labor and Delivery, Newborn, Maternal, Birth Injury, Oxytocin, Pitocin, EMTALA, hospital systems, Neonatal, NICU, Cerebral Palsy
Registered Nurse with 13+ years in maternal-newborn nursing care, including seven years of direct bedside practice in Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum (LDRP) and Newborn care and six years serving as Director of Women’s Services and Neonatal ICU. Clinical and administrative expertise includes obstetric nursing standards of care, electronic fetal monitoring interpretation and intervention, oxytocin administration and management, management of complex obstetric conditions, neonatal stabilization, obstetric triage evaluation, Medical Screening Exam (MSE) and Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) requirements as applied to obstetric patients, and maternal-newborn policy development and oversight.
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Andrea Halbach, MSNed, RNC-OB

Perinatal Legal Nurse Expert | High-Risk Obstetric

Perinatal Legal Nurse Consultant, LLC

Georgetown , Texas
Legal Nurse Consulting, Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine - Legal Nurse, Antenatal, Postpartum, Newborn, High-Risk Obstetrics, Electronic Fetal Monitoring, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Birth Injury, Maternal Death, Neonatal Death, Obstetric Nurse, Obstetric RN, Newborn Nurse, Newborn Injury, Fetal Injury, Hemorrhage , OB Nurse Expert, Expert Witness
I am a U.S. Navy Nurse Corps veteran, retiring honorably in 2016, and hold a Master of Science in Nursing Education. Since then, I’ve continued to serve in both academia and clinical practice—as a dedicated Faculty member and experienced Labor & Delivery nurse. Driven, focused, and a natural leader, I bring 19 years of clinical and educational expertise to my work. My diverse skill set includes curriculum development, team leadership, and in-depth knowledge of perinatal care. As the Owner and Founder of Perinatal Legal Nurse Consultant, LLC, I provide unbiased, expert consultation to attorneys and law firms nationwide. My services include medical record analysis, merit case reviews, and expert witness testimony in obstetric and newborn litigation. Additionally, I serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for multiple Electronic Health Record systems, including Epic, Meditech, Cerner, and Centricity. At PLNC, our mission is to deliver cost-effective, evidence-based, and time-efficien...
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Nisha Gupta, MD

Double Board Certified Pediatric Hospitalist

Falls Church, Virginia
Pediatric Hospitalist - Febrile Infant, Asthma, Bronchiolitis, Pediatric hospitalist, Pneumonia, Respiratory distress, Viral infections, Meningitis, Kawasaki, Hyperbilirubinemia, Newborn, Hospital Medicine, Pediatrics, Seizure, Medication overdose
Dr. Gupta is double Board Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatric Hospital Medicine and General Pediatrics and is licensed in Virginia and DC. She has over 8 years of clinical experience and completed an additional two-year fellowship training in Pediatric Hospital Medicine, which is not required to be a hospitalist. Dr. Gupta currently provides pediatric care at a large academic children’s hospital in Northern Virginia with large patient volumes and high acuity patients and also provides pediatric urgent care via telemedicine for Virginia and DC. Alongside her clinical duties, Dr. Gupta is a patient safety and quality reviewer. She regularly assesses adherence to standards of care, identifies delays in diagnosis and treatment, evaluates documentation quality, and reconstructs timelines for readmissions, morbidity and mortality cases, and peer reviews at her institution. Dr. Gupta is an award winning educator who teaches medical students, residents, and fellow...