California Medical Malpractice Expert Witnesses

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Noah T Kaufman (Kaufman Medical Group Inc)
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 sepsis, heart attack and cardiac conditions, stroke,... Learn More ›

Seth P Womack, MD FAAEM
Board Certified in Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Emergency medicine residency trained. In practice for over 18 years. Full time practitioner of emergency medicine at a level 1 trauma center with experience... Learn More ›

Lawrence S. Mayer, MD, MS, PhD
Dr. Mayer is an expert on the use of epidemiology, statistics and biostatistics in addressing issues of general causation in a clinical, regulatory or policy setting. He has worked on a wide range of problems in a variety of specialties in public... Learn More ›

Joseph W. Burke M.D.
Board certified, actively practicing diagnostic radiologist with over 18 years of experience. Has provided forensic case review for attorneys in numerous cases. Extensive experience in the interpretation of Neurologic and Body Imaging studies including... 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 ›
Karen Doyle (Expert Medical Review)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Karen Doyle is an actively working Certified Advanced Life Support Neonatal Nurse with 38 years in-hospital Nursing & has served as a Neonatal/Pediatric Nurse Expert for 27 years with extensive experience...
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...
STEPHEN D CHIN, MD, FAAEM (In Depth Documentation Excellence)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Chin is an actively practicing Emergency Physician with ABEM Board Certification in Emergency Medicine for over 20 years and over 10 years of experience training Emergency Medicine Physicians at a...
David I. Kaufer, M.D. (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. David I. Kaufer, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine physician with over 30 years of experience providing comprehensive care across a wide range of medical settings. He earned his Medical Doctor...
Gregory T Whitman, MD
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Board-certified neurologist. author, speaker, former clinical faculty at UCLA, UC Irvine, Harvard. Former Neurology Residency Program Director, Neurology Clerkship Director at UC Irvine. Medical expert...
Elizabeth Keiser (MD MPH | Prestigious Anatomic Pathology & Dermatopathology Consultation | CA & WA Board Certification)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Elizabeth Keiser is a Stanford, UCSF, and MD Anderson-trained board certified anatomic pathologist with subspecialty board certification in dermatopathology (skin pathology). With over a decade of...
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,...
Phillip Beron M.D. (Board Certified Radiation Oncologist)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Active Board Certified Radiation Oncologist with extensive teaching experience Chair of a National Radiation Oncology Quality Assurance Committee (ASTRO) Former Chief Quality Officer Dept of Radiation...
Steven D. Kamajian, DO, CMD, FACOFP
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Kamajian has worked as a geriatrician, family physician, medical director, and hospice physician in Southern California since 1981. He is a past president and current board member of the American College...
Dimi Maffia, PharmD, BCCCP
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: I am currently employed as an Acute Care Clinical Pharmacist Specialist at the VA San Diego Health Care System, with clinical pharmacy experience spanning six distinct healthcare systems. I earned my...
John D. Baker MD, FACP, FACC, FSCAI
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: I am an actively practicing, Invasive/Interventional Cardiologist for over 20 years specializing in Advanced Interventional procedures such as complex angioplasty, advanced coronary stent procedures, and...
Doreen R Casuto (Rehabilitation Care Coordination)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Rehabilitation Care Coordination was founded in 1989 by Doreen Casuto. Today we are an office of nearly 20 nurses, social workers, therapists and more. We are a Nurse Life Care Planning and Case Management...
Jeff Sarkozi, MD, FRCPC, FACR (Fibromyalgia Polypain Arthritis Center)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Extensive consultation, case review, analysis, ME/IME/AME, deposition, trial experience. On behalf of: industry/insurers/defendant/defendant public local, state, and federal agencies/plaintiff for industrial/occupational/environmental/post-traumatic/disability...
Andrew F Calman, MD, PhD (Premier Eyecare)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: DR. ANDREW CALMAN, a full-time, board-certified comprehensive ophthalmologist with an active surgical practice, has served as an expert witness in over 300 cases including patent, antitrust, injury, class...
Amy M. Zheng, M.D., M.Phil., CHSE (Emergency Medicine / Urgent Care Expert)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Since 2003, Dr. Zheng has worked in a variety of clinical settings, including academic teaching centers, VA healthcare system, community hospitals, and rural critical access hospitals. She is a frontline...
David M Mathis MD CCHP-P FAAFP (Correctional Medicine Expert)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: 20+ years’ experience in a variety of correctional settings and experience including emergency care, acute care, hospice care and utilization management. Corrections Physician at 2500 inmate California...
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...
Geni Bennetts MD, MA, FAAP, CPE (Medical Legal Expert,   Resolve Healthcare Consulting                                                                                                                                                                                                )
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Geni Bennetts is an experienced physician executive in healthcare and a Certified Physician Executive. She has served as a hospital subspecialist and as Chair of that division. Additionally, she has...
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...
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,...
Carlos Rodriguez, MD (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Carlos Rodriguez, M.D., Q.M.E., earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern California in Psychobiology. He began to explore the mind/body connection and how it impacts our overall...
Richard H. Gabel, MD, PC, DLFAPA (Expedient Medicolegal Services)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Richard Gabel, MD, DLFAPA, is a psychiatrist licensed in New York State with over 40 years of experience in private practice since 1980. He holds the position of Clinical Assistant Professor at New...
Vera Juris - Provider of Nurse Expert Witnesses and Legal Nurse Consultants
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Vera Juris is a national medical-legal consulting firm that provides nurse expert witnesses to medical malpractice and personal injury attorneys. We help both plaintiff and defense lawyers develop an informed...
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...
Paul Sayegh, BSN, RN, LNC
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Registered Nurse with over 20 years of clinical experience, specializing in perioperative nursing, including pre-operative, Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), and Phase II recovery. Background includes...
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...
Ramzi Asfour, MD (Board Certified in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Ramzi Asfour, MD, is board certified in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine (Volunteer) at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). In addition...
Michael G Watters (O'Brien Watters & Davis, LLP)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Michael G. Watters is a trial attorney of over 45 years with extensive trial as well as significant appellate experience. He formerly headed the Litigation Department of O'Brien, Watters & Davis, LLP from...
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,...
Sonja Rosen (Cedars-Sinai)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: I have 15 years experience as an expert witness. I am a Professor of Medicine and have extensive experience as a medical director, chief and clinician and can opine on standard of care in hospital, nursing...
Daniel R. Ruth (Dignity Life)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: A Multi-Decade Visionary, Transformational, Entrepreneurial Leader and Regulatory Expert of Senior Living Communities, Services and Care. Daniel has 30+ years’ success of creative leadership and visionary...
Jacob Reznik, MD (CATARACT SURGERY EXPERT WITNESS)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: JOHNS HOPKINS trained medical and surgical ophthalmologist and CATARACT SURGERY STANDARD OF CARE EVALUATION AND LITIGATION EXPERT with over 15 years of expert witness experience. In addition to his significant...
Stephan Zweig
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Board certified General Surgeon with over 40 years of clinical experience in active clinical practice. Past partner physician with Southern California Permanente Medical group and past Assistant Clinical...
Christina A Sanders, MSN, RN, ANP-BC (Board Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Christina Sanders is a board certified Nurse Practitioner with bachelors and masters degrees from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She serves as a nurse practitioner expert witness for both plaintiff...
Ross Levin, MD
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Levin is a full-time practicing Emergency Physician who provides consultation for chart reviews, expert witness depositions, and trial testimony. Dr. Levin’s success in providing thoughtful and...
Jonathan Zelken (Zelken Institute for Aesthetic Medicine)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: I have extensive training and experience in the topics of plastic surgery of the breast, body, face, neck, head, extremities, hands and eyes. Similar topics like scars, revision surgery, wounds, microsurgery,...
Garrett Katz Blumberg, MD, FACEP (Free Informal Case Discussion Upon Request) (MD Expert Opinion)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Garrett Blumberg, MD, FACEP is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician. He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP), reflecting his commitment to excellence in emergency...
Claire M. Young, BSN, RN, PHN, CEN (YLNC Young Legal Nurse Consultant, LLC)
Location: California
Areas of Expertise: Claire Young has 26 years of experience in Nursing, over 23 years in the Emergency (ED, Trauma, Critical Care) setting, and continues to work in the Emergency Department. She is a member of the Emergency...
Scott J Migdole, LCSW (PARK DIETZ & ASSOCIATES, INC. Forensic Experts)
Location: California and Connecticut
Areas of Expertise: Scott Migdole is a highly sought-after expert in adult and adolescent behavioral health serving as an expert witness in standard of care, behavioral health and juvenile justice malpractice cases, supervision,...
Jordan L. Geller (Geller Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Inc)
Location: California and Florida
Areas of Expertise: I have extensive experience in legal consulting, depositions, trial testimony, 402 expert hearings, jury education and strategy. I have been retained by corporations, small business owners, landlords,...
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...
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...
Sunil Kini (Radiologist Medicolegal Expert Witness)
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Kini is a Board Certified Diagnostic Radiologist in practice for 16 years. He has reviewed hundreds of thousands of x-rays, MRIs, ultrasounds, and CT scans. Dr. Kini is also Fellowship-trained in Neuroradiology...
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,...
Lawrence Belcher, MD (Park Dietz & Associates, Inc., a nationwide, interdisciplinary forensic expert firm)
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: Lawrence Belcher, MD—board-certified in adult and forensic psychiatry—is a Forensic Psychiatric Expert with Park Dietz & Associates. Harvard-trained and a former faculty member of Harvard Medical School,...
David M. Soja. CRC, ABVE/D (CRC Services, LLC)
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: David M. Soja, an early pioneer in the private vocational rehabilitation expert witness space; opened his practice, CRC Services, LLC in 1981. Mr. Soja and his highly esteemed professional colleague Erin...
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...
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.
KyleeAnn Stevens, MD, DFAPA (Park Dietz & Associates, Inc., a nationwide, interdisciplinary forensic expert firm)
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: KyleeAnn Stevens, MD, board certified in psychiatry and forensic psychiatry, is a skilled forensic psychiatrist with extensive experience as an expert witness and as a health system administrator. She...
Naren T. Vellanki, MD
Location: Multiple Locations
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Vellanki is a double board certified psychiatrist with nine years of clinical experience and specialized expertise in both inpatient and telehealth psychiatric care. Certifications: Board-certified...
Medical Malpractice FAQs

What is a medical malpractice expert witness?

A medical malpractice expert witness is a professional who is qualified to provide an expert opinion on whether a medical practitioner breached their duty of care to a patient, causing harm or injury.

What is the role of a medical malpractice expert witness?

A medical malpractice expert witness provides expert opinion on whether a medical professional breached their duty of care, causing harm to the patient.

How much can a person make as a medical malpractice expert witness?

Medical malpractice expert witnesses can expect to earn anywhere from $200 to $400 or more per hour, determined by the requirements of the case.

What are the qualifications of a medical malpractice expert witness?

Medical malpractice expert witnesses should possess knowledge of medical malpractice law, medical standards of care, and should have experience working as medical professionals.

What type of evidence is gathered in a legal proceeding by a medical malpractice expert witness?

A medical malpractice expert witness gathers evidence such as medical records, witness statements, and expert opinions to support their testimony in a legal proceeding.

In what type of cases would there be testimony from a medical malpractice expert witness?

Medical malpractice expert witnesses may provide testimony in cases involving misdiagnosis, surgical errors, medication errors, birth injuries, and other instances where a healthcare provider's negligence caused harm to a patient.