Regional Anesthesiology Expert Witnesses

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...

Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

Pain Management - Medicine, Anesthesiology - Opioid management, Billing, Medical Fraud, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Acute and Chronic Pain Management, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pain syndromes, Regional Anesthesiology, Nerve Blocks, Epidurals, Spinals, Ultrasound & Fluoroscopic guided procedures, General Anesthesia, Airway, Intubation

Dr. Graff is board certified in both anesthesiology & pain medicine. She is currently an assistant professor in the department of anesthesiology & critical care and the division chief of regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine at the Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She is also the fellowship program director for regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine. She supervises and teaches fellow physicians, resident physicians, medical students, and nurse anesthetists on a daily basis. Dr. Graff currently serves as the perioperative pain management lead for the University of Pennsylvania Health System's Opioid Task Force, for all six hospitals under the health system. This task force focuses on reducing opioid-related harm for Penn Medicine's patients, promoting evidence-based opioid prescribing habits, and overseeing quality and safety metrics with opioid prescribing in the perioperative and inpatient sectors. Dr. Graff als...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Anesthesiology, Pain Management - Medicine - Regional Anesthesiology, Nerve Injury, Pain Management, Peripheral Nerve Blocks, Epidural Anesthesia, Spinal Anesthesia, Orthopedic Anesthesia, Ultrasound guided procedures, General Anesthesia, Sedation, Intubation, Extubation, Difficult Airway, Trauma

Dr. Grosh is a board-certified Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia he is fellowship trained in Regional Anesthesiology Acute and Chronic Pain management. Dr. Grosh is the Director of Orthopedic Anesthesiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center overseeing clinical care of orthopedic surgical patients. Additionally, he is Chair of Procedural Sedation Committee and the co-chair of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center's Clinical Effectiveness Committee in which he oversees quality improvement and safety metrics for patients in the perioperative space. Dr. Grosh is an expert in the field of regional anesthesia, peripheral nerve blocks, nerve injury, anesthesia for total joint arthroplasty including knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, wrist as well as traumatology and airway management. Dr. Grosh also staffs Penn’s acute/chronic pain consult service creating c...

Houston , Texas

Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology - Pediatric anesthesiology, pediatric cardiovascular anesthesiology, Ambulatory anesthesiology, regional anesthesiology, difficult airway management, airway management, pediatric cardiac anesthesia, liver transplantation, renal transplantation, neonatal anesthesiology

I am an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine and practicing clinically at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas, In addition to my clinical practice, I have authored more than 100 peer reviewed publications and serve as a reviewer and editorial staff for some of the top anesthesiology journals. I have extensive experience in reviewing cases as well as providing depositions and testimony.

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...