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Mark I. Levy, MD, DLFAPA (Medical Director of Forensic Psychiatric Associates, L.P., a nationwide expert witness firm)
Forensic Psychiatric Associates, L.P. (fpamed) is a national consulting firm with offices in California, Nevada and North Carolina assisting litigating attorneys. The firm includes 15 board certified forensic psychiatrists, 7 forensic neuropsychiatrists... Learn More ›

Eric James Kraut (Eric J Kraut MD LLC)
Eric Kraut, MD is a general surgeon who specializes in trauma and critical care. He is board certified in general surgery and critical care by the American Board of Surgery and is appointed as an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University. He has... Learn More ›

Jay Grossman ((Dental IME, dental malpractice and dental injury due to accidents))
Dental malpractice, Dental Injury, & Dental lP (Intellectual Property) expert testimony. As of December 2025, I have been deposed over 150 times and have reviewed more than 1,100 cases for both defense and plaintiff clients, including peer reviews, accident... Learn More ›

Sanjay G. Adhia, MD (Adhia & Associates, Forensic Psychiatry)
Dr. Adhia is a triple Board-Certified Forensic Psychiatrist based in Houston, TX. He testifies nationally. He is uniquely Board-Certified in Forensic Psychiatry and Brain Injury Medicine in civil, criminal, and military jurisdictions. Adhia & Associates... Learn More ›

James L. Pearle
Dr. Pearle has been in academic and private Pulmonary Medicine, have been a consulting Pulmonary Physician, Hospitalist, and Intensivist. His expertise includes all these fields, with special expertise in Occupational Lung Disease and Asbestosis. He... Learn More ›
William H. Dillin (Independent Spine Evaluation, Inc.)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: An evidence-based practice features the best available information translated into patient care. Critical thinking in medicine, and the combined infusion of traditionally designed spine studies and the...
Shahryar Ahmadi (The Guardian Group)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Shahryar Ahmadi is a world-renowned orthopedic surgeon specializing in Qualified Medical Evaluations (QME) and SIB evaluations. Board-certified in Orthopedic Surgery. Known for his skill, empathy,...
Junao (Jimmy) Wang, MD (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Junao (Jimmy) Wang is a board-certified psychiatrist with extensive experience in outpatient care and medicolegal evaluations. He provides clear, comprehensive, and objective assessments across a wide...
Patricia Sikkeland, Psy.D. (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Patricia Sikkeland is a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive expertise in forensic and clinical psychology, specializing in assessment, therapy, and supervision across diverse populations....
Sendhil Krishnan (Pacific Heart & Vascular)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Sendhil Krishnan is a top-rated expert witness and independent medical examiner, retained by over 50 law firms nationwide. With over 8 years of experience in case reviews, depositions, and court testimony...
Melissa Bagwell, Psy.D (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Melissa Bagwell is a licensed clinical forensic psychologist in California (PSY27305), with over a decade of progressive experience conducting forensic psychological evaluations, directing multidisciplinary...
Mohan Nair (Southern California Neurodiagnostic Center)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Nair brings his extensive training, clinical experience, and formal board certifications to provide you an in-depth and nuanced medico-legal analysis of cases for adults, adolescents, and children...
Heather N Hofmann, MD, FACP, FHM, CWSP
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Board-certified in internal medicine with a focus in hospital medicine ("hospitalist"). Faculty at Loma Linda University Health. She works with many in-hospital specialists and outpatient clinic physicians,...
Fardad Baroumand
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Fardad Baroumand, MD, is a distinguished medical-legal evaluator in Pain Medicine and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He is the designated evaluator for these fields by ExamWorks Inc., the largest...
Peter-Brian Andersson (Board Certified Neurologist)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Andersson, a Board Certified Neurologist and Associate Professor at UCLA, specializes in traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, complex regional pain syndrome, capacity, headaches, memory disorders,...
Mariann F. Cosby DNP, MPA, RN, PHN, CEN, NE-BC, LNCC, CLCP, CCM, MSCC, CSN, FAEN (MFC Consulting)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: MFC Consulting provides an array of independent consulting services to attorneys and insurance carriers. Services include development and /or review of Life Care Plans, Medical Cost Projections, Medical...
Theresa M Tarcha, DC
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Tarcha has been in practice for 38 years. She has trial and deposition experience for both Plaintiff and Defense regarding standard of care and causation. Cases include vertebral artery dissection,...
Robert Scott Johnson (San Francisco Psychiatry)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Harvard/Mass General-trained forensic psychiatrist, double Board Certified (ABPN) in both Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. 20+ academic peer-reviewed publications on various topics in forensic psychiatry....
Pejman Golpanian
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Pejman Golpanian is a highly experienced, board-certified Anesthesiologist actively practicing in California. He currently practices and holds privileges at 40+ outpatient ambulatory surgical centers,...
Anwar Ali Siddiqui, D.P.M (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Anwar Ali Siddiqui is an experienced podiatric physician and Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME) based in Los Angeles, California. He holds over a decade of clinical experience providing expert foot...
Vik Mehta MD
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Mehta is a board certified, highly experienced brain and spine surgeon. He has more than 10 years of dedicated experience with medical-legal matters. He trained at the internationally recognized...
Foluke Akinyemi, MD. (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Specialty: Brain Injury Medicine and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Services: QME Education: Medical School: Louisiana State University Residency: Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma...
Mary Kaiser-Cole, D.C. (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Mary Kaiser-Cole is an experienced Doctor of Chiropractic with more than 30 years of patient care and clinic leadership in Southern California. She is licensed as a Doctor of Chiropractic in California...
Elvin Kasimoglu, M.D. (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Elvin Kasimoglu is a neurologist with over two decades of experience in clinical neurology, occupational medicine, and medical-legal evaluations. She currently serves as a staff physician at the Occupational...
Gordon Lam, D.C. ( Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Gordon Lam is an experienced chiropractic physician with a strong foundation in multidisciplinary care, hospital-based practice, and complex case management. He currently serves as a chiropractor at...
Aleksandra Drecun, PsyD (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Aleksandra Drecun is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience providing psychological services across diverse populations. She is the founder and CEO of the Association for...
Charles Talakkottur, MD, MRO (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Charles Talakkottur is a board-certified internal medicine physician and medical review officer with extensive experience in clinical practice, independent medical evaluations, and expert witness testimony....
Steven M. Simons, MD
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Simons is a widely respected practicing Internist/Pulmonologist in Los Angeles, California. He has over eighteen years of expert experience, representing both defense and plaintiffs. He is an articulate,...
Michael MacIntyre (MacIntyre Psychiatry)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Michael R. MacIntyre, MD, QME, HEC-C Board-Certified Forensic Psychiatrist | Expert in Psychiatry and the Law Dr. Michael MacIntyre is a board-certified general and forensic psychiatrist with extensive...
Richard A. Rubenstein (Richard A. Rubenstein, M.D.)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Highly-experienced expert witness (500+ cases, 300+ depositions, 30+ trials, 20+ arbitrations) and independent medical examiner (3,000+ IMEs). Headaches, concussions, epilepsy, whiplash, discogenic disease,...
Rachyll Dempsey, PsyD (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Dempsey is a Forensic Neuropsychologist licensed as a psychologist in 2006 by the California Board of Psychology; as a psychologist in 2022 by the Nevada and Alaska Boards of Psychology; Board Certified...
Joseph B. Marzouk, MD, FIDSA (Infectious Disease Specialist)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Marzouk is an Infectious Disease Specialist. His specialties are infectious diseases - infections of all medical and surgical specialties, Internal medicine, Infection control, HIV and A.I.D.S.,...
Wendy Ng (Private Practice)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Wendy K.Y. Ng is a dual board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon with subspecialty certification in hand surgery and extensive clinical, academic, and research experience in the United States...
Steven B Ross, DC, FASBE, DAAPM (Expedient Medicolegal Service)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: An Expert Witness in Spinal Biomechanics, Soft Tissue Injuries, Motor Vehicle Accidents, and Independent Medical Examiner. Dr. Ross is a Board-Certified and Licensed Doctor of Chiropractic with over forty-four...
Amila V. Nissanka, MD (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Amila V. Nissanka is a board-certified family medicine physician with extensive experience in urgent care, telemedicine, disability assessments, and clinical leadership. He currently serves as the...
Diane J. Weiss (Diane J. Weiss, MD, MPH - Psychiatrist & Expert Witness)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: With over 40 years' experience in psychiatry, including decades providing expert witness litigation support, IMEs regarding psychiatric aspects of harassment (sexual/gender-based/racial), employment law,...
Ronen Kalay, MD, MA (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Ronen J. Kalay is a board-certified family medicine physician with extensive experience in primary care, hospice medicine, and medical leadership. Since 2017, he has served as a Staff Physician with...
Jeffrey T Miller (Jeffrey T. Miller, D.D.S.)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Miller is a Board Certified Specialist: Periodontics & Dental Implants. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, which outranks most other dentists. (Few dentists are board certified...
Kenneth B. Spears, Psy.D. (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Kenneth B. Spears, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist with specialized experience in trauma-informed care, adolescent mental health, and forensic psychology. He currently serves as Center Mental...
Charles E. Keller, MD (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Charles E. Keller, MD is Board Certified in Ophthalmology with over 25 years of experience caring for patients with complex eye diseases in Southern CA. He completed an advanced fellowship in Cornea. He...
Mark Miculian, Ph.D. (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Expedient Medicolegal Services provides expert medical opinions to a diversity of clients, with an emphasis in the areas of workers’ compensation, independent medical examinations, and disability evaluations....
Samuel Miles (Samuel I. Miles, MD, PHD)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Miles provides consultations, reports, and expert testimony to both plaintiffs and defendants in litigated civil and criminal matters. He has qualified as expert in state and federal courts to provide...
Duane M. Bryant, MD, MS (Board Certified Comprehensive Ophthalmologist)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: More than 30 years experience includes cataracts, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, vein occlusion, macular degeneration, ocular trauma, vision loss, vision impairment, and eye injury. Surgical experience...
Steven Rauchman (Medical-Legal Ophthalmology and TBI Consultant / Expert Witness)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Rauchman is an Ophthalmologist and Ophthalmologic Surgeon with over 30 years' experience in eye function, eye trauma, and more than a decade opining in a medical-legal context. He is also an expert...
F. Michael Ferrante (Ferrante Consulting)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Ferrante is a distinguished clinician–scientist with over 100 publications, including two textbooks on pain management, membership on national and international committees on the study of pain, repeated...
Marvin Pietruszka, M.D., J.D. (Medicus Consultant Group, Inc.)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Pietruszka is an expert in internal medicine, forensic pathology, and forensic toxicology. He has extensive expertise in chart review, causation analysis, standard of care, post mortem and clinical/pathological...
Melissa A. Bohonos M.D. (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California and Texas
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Melissa A. Bohonos is a board-certified ophthalmologist and fellowship-trained glaucoma specialist 
with extensive experience in comprehensive eye care, glaucoma management, and ophthalmic surgery.
...
Elite Medical Experts
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: Elite Medical Experts is a physician-based firm specializing exclusively in medical litigation. Our one goal is to align top-tier university professors with the legal community. We secure experts for medical litigation from every medical and surgical speciality.
Consolidated Consultants
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: Consolidated Consultants (CCc) continues to deliver high quality expert witness and medical expert witness referrals nationwide since 1995. CCc is the only referral service where you can view the full,...
MRK Medical Consultants
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: MRK Medical Consultants, a physician-owned firm for more than forty years, has pioneered a truly client-centered approach to medical-legal services. We provide objective examination of personal injury...
Adam J Carinci MD, JD, MBA (CRPS & Opioid Litigation Expert (MD, JD))
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Adam J. Carinci, MD, JD, MBA is a nationally recognized CRPS thought leader and leading expert witness with over fifteen years of pain medicine experience. With dual training as both a physician and...
Jeffery C. Huffman, MD (Park Dietz & Associates, Inc., a nationwide, interdisciplinary forensic expert firm)
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: Jeffery C. Huffman, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Associate Chief of Psychiatry for Clinical Services at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he oversees more than...
Medilex Inc.
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: MEDICAL EXPERTS IN 180 SPECIALTIES, FREE INITIAL TELEPHONE ANALYSIS BY OUR DIRECTOR, A COST-CONTROL GUARANTEE...AND NO EXPERT SEARCH FEES–ALL MONIES ARE APPLIED TO THE EXPERT'S ACTUAL WORK. Medilex...
Park Dietz (Park Dietz & Associates, Inc.)
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: PD&A offers forensic experts in psychiatry, psychology, neuropsychology, neurology, pathology, nursing, social work, criminal behavior analysis, police, corrections, security, and toxicology. For the...
Noah T Kaufman (Kaufman Medical Group Inc)
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Kaufman is a Board Certified Emergency Room physician with 18 years experience specializing in Emergency Medicine (board certification), clinic medicine and hospitalist medicine with an emphasis on...
Ciaran M. Considine, PhD, ABPP-CN (Park Dietz & Associates, Inc., a nationwide, interdisciplinary forensic expert firm)
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: Ciaran M. Considine, PhD, ABPP-CN, is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist within the associated Vanderbilt University...
ForensisGroup, Inc. (The Expert of Experts)
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: For over 30 years, ForensisGroup has provided the nation’s top law firms, businesses, insurance companies, government entities with highly qualified expert witnesses and consultants. Experts referred by...
Independent Medical Examinations FAQs

What is an independent medical examinations expert witness?

An independent medical examinations expert witness is a healthcare professional who provides an unbiased opinion on the medical care received by a patient.

What is the role of an independent medical examinations expert witness?

An independent medical examinations expert witness provides testimony on medical evaluations and disability determinations.

How much can a person make as an independent medical examinations expert witness?

Independent medical examinations expert witnesses can earn anywhere from $200 to $450 or more per hour, based on the particulars of the case, and the type of expert work needed.

What are the qualifications of an independent medical examinations expert witness?

An independent medical examinations expert witness has knowledge of medical examination practices and can provide unbiased evaluation and analysis in legal cases.

What type of evidence is gathered in a lawsuit by an independent medical examinations expert witness?

An independent medical examinations expert witness gathers evidence such as medical records, diagnostic tests, and physical examinations to provide an unbiased opinion on the plaintiff's injuries and their impact on their life.

What types of cases involve expert opinions from an independent medical examinations expert witness?

Cases involving personal injury, medical malpractice, disability claims, workers' compensation, and insurance disputes often require expert opinions from independent medical examination expert witnesses to provide objective evaluations of medical conditions and treatments.