Mark E McKenzie, MD

Internist - Former Academic Career

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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I am a Board-Certified internist and for the past eighteen years I have been working full-time in Graduate Medical Education (GME) , academic medicine, as Program Director for an Internal Medicine residency. I completed my residency at University Medical Center in Las Vegas including a year as Chief Resident. In my last year, 1999 , I was given the Resident of the Year and the Out Patient Clinic Resident of the Year awards. After seven years in a traditional internal medicine practice one my partners and I were recruited by a community hospital to start a GME program. We started with twenty-four residents across several specialties in 2006 and now the programs train almost ninety residents and fellows. I have been providing my services as a part-time endeavor and now I'm ready to go full-time. Included among my many skills is the fact that I am very adept at picking apart other physician's expert opinions and do not hesitate to sharply criticize them. I have provided written opinions on cases that ranged from relatively straight forward to two inmate, in-custody deaths. I have chosen to highlight two cases that illustrate my critical thinking skills and, in particular, my attention to detail. A healthy male in his 30's was placed in handcuffs and later complained of persistent bilateral wrist pain. Despite a normal MRI, a normal physical exam by a neurologist, and a normal nerve function study of the wrists, plaintiff found a hand surgeon who subsequently performed bilateral, surgical carpal tunnel releases. I was able to eviscerate this doctor's credibility based on his fraudulent documentation. In the other case, plaintiff died from cardiac arrest while incarcerated . The claim was, despite being in a suicide prevention unit, the correction staff failed to properly monitor him contributing to his death. I performed a meticulous, time consuming review of the video evidence from both inside his cell as well as video of the monitoring technician as she watches the monitors. This resulted in a powerful argument that the jail guards were not to blame. In neither case did plaintiff's lawyers request my deposition. I see things others don't see.