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Institutional Healthcare Quality & Compliance

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

Additional Information

Brent R. Gibson, MD, MPH, is a board-certified physician and nationally recognized expert in correctional and institutional healthcare quality, governance, and systems performance. He specializes in the analysis of serious adverse events, in-custody deaths, medical neglect, and organizational failures in jail, prison, and other custodial healthcare settings. Dr. Gibson is the founder and principal of Avocet Health Partners, a healthcare consulting firm focused on quality, risk, and governance in high-risk institutional environments. He previously held senior leadership roles at the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) — including Chief Health Officer and Managing Director of NCCHC Resources — where he was directly involved in accreditation, quality improvement, standards development, and system-level performance evaluation across hundreds of correctional healthcare systems in the United States. He currently serves as the pro bono Chief Medical Officer of Social Purpose Corrections and as an Approved Healthcare Assessor for the Emirates International Accreditation Centre (EIAC), an ISQua-recognized accreditation body, evaluating healthcare organizations against international standards for clinical governance and patient safety. His work focuses on evaluating healthcare delivery not only at the level of individual clinical decisions, but also at the level of policies, procedures, staffing models, training, supervision, quality assurance programs, and organizational oversight. He is frequently retained in cases involving allegations of deliberate indifference, systemic neglect, wrongful death, failure to diagnose or treat, inadequate policies and procedures, and failures of clinical governance and supervision. Dr. Gibson consults and testifies for both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts. His engagements span deaths in custody, suicide risk assessment and monitoring, failure to diagnose and treat serious cardiac and neurological conditions, use-of-force and restraint-related injury, care of vulnerable and elderly residents, and conditions of confinement, including putative class actions involving large correctional facilities. He has also served in court-appointed and systemic oversight roles — as a consultant and monitor in long-running class-action litigation addressing system-wide compliance, mortality review structures, consent-decree monitoring, and the termination of federal oversight. Dr. Gibson holds an MD and an MPH, is board certified in Occupational Medicine, and is licensed as a physician in Missouri. He completed his medical training and served as an Army medical officer — including as the installation medical authority at a major industrial and chemical-surety complex — before entering civilian practice and healthcare leadership. His professional background includes clinical practice, institutional medical leadership, accreditation and compliance work, quality improvement program design, and large-scale healthcare system assessment. He has extensive experience reviewing medical records, policies and procedures, training materials, quality assurance and performance improvement programs, and organizational structures. He provides clear, structured opinions regarding standard of care, causation, and the role of system design and oversight in adverse outcomes, and is known for his ability to explain complex healthcare systems and institutional processes in a manner that is understandable to attorneys, judges, and juries. His work is grounded in objective analysis, accepted standards of practice, and real-world experience operating and evaluating institutional healthcare systems.