Oncology Expert-Product Liability/Cancer Causation
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- Phone: (310) 709-4604
- Cell: (310) 709-4604
- Website: www.cancercausationexpert.com/
Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness
General Specialties:
Radiation Oncology and OncologyKeywords/Search Terms:
Radiation injury, quality assurance, radiation safety, delayed diagnosis, breast cancer, radiation induced cancer, product liability, malpractice, radiation causation, mesothelioma, prostate cancer, causation, toxic tort, hospital safety, secondary cancer, latency, head neck cancer, radiation exposure, environmental exposure, cancerEducation:
Radiation Oncologist - Board Certified, William Beamont Hospital; MD, Wayne State University Medical School; Gamma Knife Certification, University of Pittsburgh, UCLAYears in Practice:
>20Number of Times Deposed/Testified in Last 4 Yrs:
> 30Additional Information
https://www.cancercausationexpert.com pberonmd@gmail.com 310-709-4604 Board-certified radiation oncologist with more than 20 years of active clinical experience and longstanding expert witness experience in medical malpractice, radiation oncology standard of care, product liability, toxic tort, environmental exposure, radiation exposure, and radiation-induced cancer matters. Retained by both plaintiff and defense counsel. Expertise includes general and specific causation, radiation dose assessment, exposure pathway analysis, latency, tumor biology, competing risk factors, epidemiology, radiobiology, and mechanistic cancer causation. Frequently evaluates whether an alleged malignancy is medically and biologically consistent with the type, magnitude, dose, timing, and pathway of an alleged ionizing radiation or environmental exposure. Served as Chair of a national Radiation Oncology Quality Assurance Committee for the American Society for Radiation Oncology. Former Chief Quality Officer for the Department of Radiation Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Current ASTRO APEx accreditation site surveyor, conducting national peer-review evaluations of radiation oncology practices with emphasis on standards of care, safety systems, peer review, documentation, treatment quality, and quality assurance. Standard-of-care expertise includes radiation oncology consultation, treatment planning, dose/fractionation, treatment delivery, image guidance, quality assurance, peer review, documentation, treatment delays, complication assessment, hospital safety programs, radiation oncology workflows, and incident learning systems. Call or email Phone: 310-709-4604 Email: pberonmd@gmail.com