Obstetric Anesthesia Expert Witnesses

San Francisco, California

Anesthesiology - difficult airway, intubation, brain injury / brain damage, hypoxia, hypotension, residual paralysis, narcotics, oversedation, aspiration, PACU, neurosurgical anesthesia, obstetric anesthesia, awareness under anesthesia, brain monitoring, ENT anesthesia, Intraoperative visual loss, drug errors

Dr. Chander is a board certified anesthesiologist and neuroscientist (PhD). She served on the Stanford Anesthesiology faculty for 8 years. At Stanford, her areas of expertise and teaching included general surgery, neurosurgical, ENT/head & neck, orthopedic, and obstetric anesthesia. She has extensive experience with propofol sedation and total IV anesthesia, +/- brain monitoring, and difficult airway. She has trained residents in the OR, on labor & delivery, and through didactic teaching. Over the past several years, Dr. Chander continues to practice anesthesia at several Bay Area hospitals (including a level 1 trauma center). Dr. Chander has also co-founded 2 companies in the healthcare space, in neuro-ICU diagnostics, and creating a platform for integration for public health data. She served on a NASA task force for COVID19, and a global pandemic resilience task force, which she co-chaired and directed. In 2020, she was appointed a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council. Dr. Chan...

Wellington, Florida

Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology - General Anesthesia, Pediatric Anesthesia, Neonatal Anesthesia, Regional Anesthesia, Obstetric Anesthesia, Hypoxic Brain Injury, Cardiac Arrest, Difficult Airway, Lost Airway, Hypoxia, Spine Surgery, Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC), Sedation, Medication Errors, Nerve Injury, Positioning

Award-winning dual board-certified anesthesiologist and pediatric anesthesiologist who trained at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Licensed in the state of Florida and works full-time as an anesthesiologist/pediatric anesthesiologist at St. Mary’s Medical Center and Palm Beach International Surgery Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. Extensive experience with medical direction; supervising certified registered nurse anesthetists and certified anesthesiologist assistants as well as solo practice. Multiple publications and grand rounds presentations. Dr. Zajac serves as a medical expert witness in the fields of anesthesiology and pediatric anesthesiology. Dr. Zajac can opine on standard of care and medical malpractice for either plaintiff or defense counsel and is adept in providing his expert opinion on events that occur during the perioperative time period. Unblemished record and highly responsive to emails and phone cal...

Silver Spring, Maryland

Anesthesiology - General anesthesia, Regional anesthesia, Airway management, Difficult airway, Nerve block / injury, Opiate, Acute pain, Recovery room, Awareness, Ultrasound, Aspiration, Blood pressure, Monitored Anesthesia Care - MA, Conscious sedation, Epidural, Spinal, Obstetric anesthesia, Death, Pregnancy, CPR

Dr. Justin Black is a board-certified, award-winning anesthesiologist working full-time in active clinical practice throughout Maryland and Washington, D.C. With over 15 years of clinical experience, Dr. Black is an expert in many areas of general anesthesia. His expertise includes advanced techniques such as ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia, including peripheral nerve blocks for operative and post-operative acute pain control. He has extensive experience with solo practice and medical direction, supervising certified registered nurse anesthetists. In addition to his clinical commitment, Dr. Black has effectively performed in critical leadership positions, including successfully serving as interim chairman of the Department of Anesthesia at a renowned community hospital in Baltimore, MD throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Experienced as a public speaker, he can clearly and effectively articulate his analysis and findings of compliance or deviation from standard of care and causat...

Baltimore, Maryland

Anesthesiology - perioperative, anesthesia, anesthesiology, preoperative, postoperative, intraoperative, obstetrics, obstetric anesthesia, airway management, pain management

Detail-oriented anesthesiologist with experience providing anesthesia in hospital and outpatient settings. Subspecialty in anesthesia in the high-risk obstetric population.

Boston, Massachusetts

Anesthesiology, Pain Management - Medicine - Regional Anesthesia, Spinal complications, Epidural Hematoma, Regional Anesthesiology, Obstetric Anesthesia, General Anesthesia, Nerve injury, Acute Pain Management, Spinals, Neuroanesthesia, Epidural complications, Acute Pain, Epidurals, Peripheral Nerve blocks, Compartment syndrome

Brinda Bharat Kamdar MD is a nationally recognized board certified anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (the original and largest Harvard teaching hospital) and chosen by her peers as one of "Boston's Top Doctors" in 2024 and 2023. She completed her medical training at the University of California at San Francisco in 2004 and anesthesia residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2008. She is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School, where she serves as Program Director for the Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship and Associate Director of the Regional Anesthesia and Peri-operative Pain Service at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She serves as an associate editor for the Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine journal, and has been recognized for mentorship of faculty as the recipient of the MGH Faculty Clinical Mentorship Award in 2017 and 2022. Particular areas of interest are real-time lumbar and thoracic neuraxi...

New York, New York

Obstetrical Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology - obstetric anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, nerve block, regional anesthesia, outpatient anesthesiology, preoperative evaluation, postoperative care, general anesthesia, office based anesthesia, peripheral nerve injury, hypoxia, intubation, airway management, critical care, intensive care, monitoring

Dr. John Seitz is a New York City based anesthesiologist with over 16 years of experience as an actively practicing anesthesiologist in Manhattan. Dr Seitz received his bachelors degree at The University of Pennsylvania in Chemical Engineering with a minor in psychology. He did his anesthesiology training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. He continued his career in New York and has been an attending anesthesiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital for the past 15 years on the upper east side of Manhattan. Dr Seitz is known for his communication skills and ability to quickly develop a rapport with his patients. His background in engineering, physics and psychology allows him to maintain a unique perspective on perioperative anesthesia care. Dr. Seitz while at Lenox Hill was known for his clinical acumen in obstetric anesthesia, anesthesia for ENT surgery, bariatric surgery, gynecologic surgery, endoscopy, plastic surgery, and orthopedic surgery. His ability to make qui...

Durham, North Carolina

Anesthesiology - obstetric anesthesia, office based anesthesia, general anesthesia

Anesthesiology residency completed 2016 from University of California, San Francisco Obstetric anesthesia fellowship completed 2017 from University of California, San Francisco Co-author of book chapter entitled "Physiology and Pharmacology of Obstetric Anesthesia" within the textbook "Pharmacology and Physiology of Anesthesia" (2019) American Board of Anesthesiology board certification

Nashville, Tennessee

Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology - General Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesia, Ambulatory Surgery, Spine Surgery, Dental Anesthesia, Obstetric Anesthesia, Monitored Anesthesia Care, Sedation, Airway Management, Peripheral Nerve Blocks, Eye Blocks, Epidural & Spinal Anesthesia, Medication Errors, PACU, Nerve Injury, Positioning, OSA

Board-certified, Vanderbilt-trained Anesthesiologist with academic, private practice and military medical experience. Past-President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Resident Component and Member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Board of Directors. In full-time clinical practice with hands-on patient care and direction/supervision of CRNAs, residents, and medical students. • General anesthesia including: Induction and maintenance of anesthesia, ventilator management, intra-operative monitoring, management of emergence from anesthesia, and transportation to and from the operating room. • Airway management including endotracheal tubes, single-lung ventilation, and non-invasive techniques. • Epidural and spinal anesthesia. • Regional anesthesia. • Invasive Monitoring including central Lines, arterial Lines, and pulmonary arterial catheters. • Pre-operative assessment and post-operative patient management. • Echocardiography and ultrasound assessment...

Roanoke, Texas

Anesthesiology - Regional Anesthesia, General anesthesia, obstetric anesthesia, critical care, anesthesiology

I am currently in full-time practice and a senior partner with a large anesthesia group in Dallas-Fort Worth. My practice consists of a variety of cases, to include almost every subspecialty in anesthesiology. I perform about 1200 anesthetics per year at a variety of facilities, from a small community surgery center to a large Level 1 trauma hospital. Given my experience, there is basically no type of anesthesia case that I am not comfortable reviewing. If you look at the practices of many of the experts who review anesthesia cases, you will find that they practice at academic institutions and have a largely academic practice. On paper, many of these experts are impressive, but their actual day to day practice consists mostly of supervising residents and fellows and they are often out of touch with the standards of care in community practice. Things are very different at a large academic institution and that experience is typically hard to translate to what actually goes on in ...

Houston, Texas

Obstetrical Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology - obstetric anesthesia, hysterectomy, deep sedation, spinal headache, regional anesthesiology, peripheral nerve blocks, neuraxial anesthesia, TAP block, local anesthetic systemic toxicity, failed intubation, central line complications, spinal, epidural, placenta accreta, egg retrievals, ultrasound

Dr. Maria Sheikh is a fellowship-trained obstetric anesthesiologist who specializes in the care of patients with high-risk pregnancies and those undergoing major and minor obstetric and gynecologic procedures (Cesarean section, cerclage, hysterectomy, hysteroscopy, laparoscopy, egg retrieval, etc). She is skilled in placing labor epidurals, spinals, and regional blocks for pain management, and invasive lines for monitoring high-risk patients. Dr. Sheikh is a passionate educator. She won Best Teacher of the Year in Obstetric Anesthesia two years in a row during her appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Columbia University. She also has extensive training in point-of-care ultrasound and has served as faculty instructor at several ultrasound workshops organized by the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology and the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. In addition, she has traveled internationally to teach modern obste...