Cruise Ship & Maritime Medicine Expert Witness

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Maritime & Cruise Ship Medical Expertise Dr. Victor Gomez has over a decade of experience delivering medical and occupational health services aboard major international cruise lines including Azamara, Royal Caribbean, MSC Cruises, and The Apollo Group. He served as Senior Medical Officer managing passenger and crew medical emergencies and is well versed in the cruise ship medical standard of care governing shipboard diagnosis, treatment, documentation, and medical evacuation decisions. His responsibilities included triage, emergency response, medical documentation, outbreak management, and regulatory compliance within onboard medical centers. Dr. Gomez also directed occupational health programs for multinational crews including fitness for duty assessments, health surveillance, and return to work protocols aligned with maritime medical standards. Through his consultancy VGMO Colombia SAS, Dr. Gomez advises offshore platforms and maritime operations on health system readiness, occupational compliance, medical evacuation planning, and emergency medical protocols. He brings this operational expertise to U.S. litigation through his expert witness firm VGA Global Access LLC, supporting cases involving cruise ship medical negligence, delayed evacuation decisions, diagnostic errors, and occupational illness. Remote & International Medical Leadership Dr. Gomez has served as Chief Medical Officer and Health Advisor in remote environments including Papua New Guinea, Mongolia, and Mali, providing clinical governance for mining and development operations. In these roles he oversaw medical risk assessments, emergency preparedness planning, outbreak response, and workforce health protection across multinational operations. In Mongolia he advised international partners on COVID 19 preparedness and workforce protection strategies. In Papua New Guinea and Mali he directed medical systems integrating emergency care, preventive medicine, and occupational health in geographically isolated environments. These experiences provide insight into medical decision making under operational constraints and inform his expert testimony in litigation involving delayed care, evacuation decisions, workplace injuries, and failures of remote medical systems. Consulting & Expert Witness Practice Dr. Victor Gomez is the founder of VGMO Colombia SAS, a consultancy supporting offshore, maritime, and industrial health operations including medical evacuation protocol development, outbreak response planning, emergency preparedness drills, and occupational health system audits. He is also the founder of VGA Global Access LLC, through which he serves as a retained medical expert witness in litigation involving cruise ship medical negligence, maritime medical standard of care disputes, and failures in remote or offshore medical care delivery. Dr. Gomez has been engaged by prominent U.S. maritime law firms including Lipcon Margulies & Winkleman, Louis Vucci, Dickman Epelbaum & Dickman, LMK Legal, Scolaro Law, and others. His operational experience spans four continents and all oceans, providing legal teams with clinical expertise and real world maritime medical insight. Expert Witness Case Experience Dr. Gomez has served as a consulting and testifying expert in numerous maritime medical matters involving passenger and crew medical care aboard major cruise lines. These cases have included evaluation of traumatic injuries following passenger falls, delayed recognition of head injuries in elderly passengers receiving anticoagulation therapy, infection control failures related to invasive procedures, and delayed or inappropriate medical evacuation decisions. Additional matters involved occupational injuries affecting shipboard personnel including repetitive lifting injuries, musculoskeletal disorders, and the interaction between pre existing degenerative disease and acute trauma during maritime travel.