Emergency Medical Services Expert Witnesses in Minnesota

Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medical Services - Board Certified Emergency Medicine, 29 years of full-time emergency medicine practice, Team leader, Trained communicator, Trusted educator, Advanced military leadership, Hundreds of patient care charts reviewed as medical director, quality leader and utilization management liaison.

• Highly experienced in the evaluation and care of complex trauma, medical and pediatric emergency medicine patients. • Serviced as Department Chair, Medical Director, Credential committee chair, and Utilization review liaison in Hospital system with over 50,000 emergency visits per year. Reviewed hundreds of patient charts for quality, medical management and sentinel events. Counseled multiple physicians on process improvement and quality care issues. Trauma site review physician in Wisconsin with over 50 trauma state variations. • 29 years of emergency medicine practice includes diverse experience in urban and rural facilities, all levels of trauma care from level I to small level IV facilities. • Directly involved in developing comprehensive stroke center, cardiac center and trauma system in Western Wisconsin. • Heavily invested in continuing education of ED staff, ED residents, APC and Medical students from area colleges. • EMS medical direction, real world training in disa...

Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Medicine - Emergency Medical Services, EMS, EMT, Paramedic, Standard of Care, Medical Malpractice, Cardiac Arrest, Airway, Intubation, Chemical Restraint, Refusal of Care, RMA, Violent Patient Management, Protocols, Trauma Care, Delay of Care, Sedation, Overdose, Wrongful Death, Negligence, Ambulance, Dispatch

For over 35 years my career path has included public and private sector fire and emergency medical services. Extending into leadership, incident management, design and implementation of immersive educational scenarios, physician training, and emergency planning, I have experience in several widely varying aspects of my profession. In addition to management of countless incidents in a broad array of emergency services, I have also mitigated events ranging in complexity from multiple alarm fires to mass casualty incidents. I am a paramedic supervisor for both a municipal, fire-based EMS system (260 EMS providers) and a county emergency medical services system (90 EMS providers) I have participated in the design and implementation of educational, operational, safety, quality improvement, standard of care and EMS policies and procedures for EMTs, paramedics and physicians. As an expert witness specializing in pre-hospital emergency medicine, I have been retained by firms represent...