Critical Care Medicine Expert Witnesses in Colorado

Critical Care Medicine - Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, ICU, Intensivist, Septic shock, Shock, Cardiogenic Shock, ARDS, Acute respiratory failure, Hypertensive Emergency, post-operative patients, post-surgical patients, status epilepticus, multi-organ failure, stroke

Dr. Solenkova is a critical care physician experienced in different ICU and hospital settings. She received her residency training from Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach and critical care fellowship training from the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. Dr. Solenkova is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Solenkova cares for patients in the medical ICU, coronary care unit, cardio-thoracic ICU, and surgical ICU. Her patients have various conditions that include but not limited to sepsis, septic shock, cardiogenic shock, acute respiratory failure, ARDS, pneumonia, intraabdominal infection, heart attack, stroke, brain bleed, status epilepticus, COPD exacerbation, acute kidney failure, and multi-organ failure. Dr. Solenkova also cares for patients using mechanical heart-lung support such as ECMO, Impella, IABP, post-cardiac surgery, post-abdominal surgery, post-vascular procedures, post-lung and heart transplants, and many others. She h...

Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine - Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Surgery, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) / ECLS, Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS), intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), physical therapy, ventricular assist device (LVAD), cardiothoracic surgery, ventilation

HIGHLIGHTS: --Full Time Clinically active --Tenured Associate Professor at high volume referral Tertiary Academic Medical Center --NIH Funded Researcher (>150 peer reviewed journal articles) --International Leader in ECMO/Critical Care --Authored Multiple Guidelines in ECMO/Critical Care --Previous ICU Medical Director --Section Head of Critical Care --Medical Director of ECMO --Expert Witness since 2014 --Authored multiple reports/depositions. Effective reports, honest/direct assessments, rapid turn around, repeat clients. Dr. Joseph E Tonna, MD, MS, FCCM, FACEP, FAAEM, is a clinically active attending physician with dual board certification in both Emergency Medicine and in Critical Care Medicine, and is a leading international expert in the use and management of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest, and life support, with 150 peer reviewed publications on PubMed. He has particular expertise in emergency medicine, ECMO, mechanical circul...

Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Medicine - Pulmonary, Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Respiratory, Expert, ARDS, Pulmonologist, ICU physician, Asthma, Sepsis, lung disease, Bronchoscopy, ICU, Wrongful Death, Pulmonary malpractice

Bobbak Vahid, MD, is board-certified in pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine, and Internal Medicine and is an attending teaching physician at Highland Hospital, Oakland California. In addition to his 20+ years of extensive private practice, Dr. Vahid has privileges at five California hospitals (Alameda County Medical Center, Alameda Hospital, San Leandro Hospital, Saint Rose Hospital, Sutter Lakeside Hospital, California Pacific Medical Center, Marin General Hospital, Delta Hospital, Sutter Mills-Peninsula Hospital, Sutter Eden Medical Center, and Sutter Santa Rosa Hospital). Dr. Vahid also has been an adjunctive associate professor at Touro University lecturing courses in respiratory diseases. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Vahid has been ICU director, Respiratory director, Chief of Medicine, Quality Review Committee Chair, and member of the medical executive committee for several hospitals for 6 years & has advised hospitals during the COVID-19 epidemic. He a...

Aurora, Colorado

Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Surgery - Pain Management, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiology, Critical Care Nursing

Michelle Edwards, MS, APRN, AGACNP-BC, ALNC is a board-certified Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and medical expert witness with extensive experience in critical care and ICU-level practice. Her background includes management of complex, high-acuity patients involving sepsis, respiratory failure, cardiogenic shock, postoperative complications, neurological injury, and hospital-acquired conditions. In her current role in spine and pain management, Ms. Edwards evaluates and manages patients with acute and chronic pain conditions, including cases arising from personal injury and workers’ compensation matters. She provides objective expert analysis on ICU and post-acute standards of care, nursing and advanced practice provider decision-making, documentation, breach, and causation, and conducts comprehensive medical record reviews to support medical malpractice and serious injury litigation. Areas of Expertise • Critical care and ICU standards of care • Nursing and ad...

Erie, Colorado

Veterinarian, Critical Care Medicine - Veterinary Medicine, Emergency Veterinary Medicine, Referral hospital, Critical Care Veterinary Medicine, Vet Med, Veterinarian, Vet, Veterinary Care, Emergency Veterinarian, Emergency and Critical Care, Standard of care, Veterinary malpractice review, Veterinary negligence

Dr. Leilani Ireland is an emergency and critical care veterinarian with extensive experience in high-acuity referral hospital environments. Her work has focused on the evaluation and management of critically ill veterinary patients, triage decision-making, stabilization, hospitalization, and transfer of care within specialty hospitals. In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Ireland has held senior veterinary leadership and administrative roles supporting multi-hospital operations. Her responsibilities have included veterinarian staffing and supervision, schedule design, workflow optimization, and operational decision-making in high-volume veterinary emergency services. This experience allows her to evaluate not only individual clinical judgment but also how communication, staffing, and hospital systems influence care delivery. Dr. Ireland provides objective medical-legal consultation regarding veterinary standard of care, clinical decision-making in emergency and critical care sett...

Denver, Colorado

Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine - Occupational lung disease, pulmonary embolism, respiratory failure, sepsis

Colorado

Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine - Cardiac Anesthesiology, Vascular Anesthesiology, Thoracic Anesthesiology, Airway, Aortic Valve Replacement, Mitral Valve Replacement, Coronary Artery Bypass, Central Line, Arterial Line, Nerve Block, Critical Care Medicine, ICU, Cardiovascular ICU, VATS, Thoracotomy, Aortic surgery, TEE, Transesophageal Echocardiography

Paul Pisklak, MD, is a triple board-certified physician with active certification in Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE, ultrasound imaging of the heart via the esophagus) with over 12 years of clinical experience across Texas, Iowa and Colorado. He specializes in the perioperative care of patients undergoing complex cardiac, thoracic, and vascular procedures, including coronary artery bypass grafting (heart bypass surgery), heart valve replacement and heart valve repair surgery, aortic surgery (repair of major blood vessels), video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and management of critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Dr. Pisklak has held multiple hospital appointments and has served on key committees focused on quality improvement, ethics, and cardiovascular outcomes. He has taught nurses and residents through formal lectures, simulation training, and clinical education programs. He has...

Littleton , Colorado

Critical Care Surgery, Critical Care Medicine - Critical care, brain, spine, stroke, sepsis, wrongful death, falls, med records review, vascular, neurosurgery, post-op care, trauma, Cardiac Cath, pressure injury, abdominal, pain, overdose, respiratory, PACU, IR

Forty (45) five years of professional experience in critical care nursing that includes 17 years of leadership and management responsibility in a variety of specialties, including Surgical/Trauma ICU, Burn Trauma ICU, MICU/CCU, CVICU, Cardiothoracic ICU, Neuro ICU – affiliated with major university teaching and research hospitals. During my tenure as a nurse manager, I was entrusted with significant responsibilities. These included program development, strategic planning, fiscal resources and budget allocation, personnel management, and care-delivery outcomes for the Neurosurgical ICU. I successfully fulfilled these duties for a decade, demonstrating my leadership and management skills. Since establishing my legal nurse consulting business in 2017, I have been actively involved in reviewing and providing expert opinions on a wide range of cases. This includes both plaintiff and defense cases spanning 15 states. Clinical Experience Clinical Charge nurse in an 18-bed ICU, level 3...