Donna Vene-Dwyer MS, RD, LDN
HARRISBURG, PA 17112
Registered Dietitian with more than 25 years of clinical, consulting, and leadership experience in skilled nursing facilities, long-term care, hospitals, hospice, and dialysis centers. Provides independent medical record review, standards-of-care analysis, and expert consultation in healthcare litigation involving registered dietitian practice, clinical nutrition, food and nutrition services, CMS regulatory compliance, MDS documentation, and electronic health records (EHRs).
Clinical expertise includes malnutrition, unintended weight loss, pressure injury nutrition, dehydration, enteral (tube) feeding, nutrition assessment, interdisciplinary care planning, and therapeutic diet implementation. Professional experience also includes food and nutrition services operations, menu systems, physician diet order compliance, texture-modified diets, food safety, quality improvement, and regulatory survey preparedness.
Experience encompasses both the clinical and operational aspects of nutrition care, providing a comprehensive perspective on how nutrition services are delivered, documented, and evaluated in institutional healthcare settings.
- Assisted Living
- Geriatrics
- HIPAA
- Hospital Administration
- Long Term Care
- Medical Records
- Nursing Homes
- Nutrition
- Wound Care/Pressure Sores
- Wrongful Death
- Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:
- A: Master of Science in Nutrition, Texas Woman’s University
Bachelor of Science in Dietetics and Institutional Administration, Texas Woman’s University
Registered Dietitian (RD), Commission on Dietetic Registration
Licensed Dietitian-Nutritionist (LDN), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
- Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
- A: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
- A: Provided interdisciplinary education and staff training for healthcare professionals in acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, hospice, and dialysis settings. Educational topics have included malnutrition identification and treatment, enteral (tube) feeding management, renal nutrition and dialysis, diabetes management, unintended weight loss, pressure injury nutrition, CMS regulatory compliance, MDS documentation, interdisciplinary care planning, and nutrition standards of practice.
- Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
- A: No
- Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
- A: Twice
- Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
- A: Clinical nutrition standards of care, registered dietitian standard of care, skilled nursing facility nutrition care, medical record review, electronic health record (EHR) documentation, MDS documentation, enteral (tube) feeding management, malnutrition, unintended weight loss, pressure injury nutrition, CMS regulatory compliance, food and nutrition services operations, therapeutic diet implementation, menu and diet order management, and wrongful death litigation involving institutional healthcare.
- Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
- A: 0%
- Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
- A: 100%
- Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
- A: Once
- Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
- A: Not applicable – I have not yet been deposed.
- Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
- A: Not to date
- Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
- A: Not to date
- Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
- A: Initially retained as an expert witness earlier in my career and returned to expert witness practice in 2026, providing medical record review and standards-of-care analysis in healthcare litigation involving clinical nutrition, food and nutrition services, and registered dietitian practice.
- Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
- A: * Medical record review and analysis
* Standards-of-care evaluation
* Case consultation
* Expert reports and rebuttal reports
* Deposition and trial preparation
* Medical chronology and timeline development
* Evaluation of nutrition and medical chart documentation, MDS documentation, and electronic health records (EHRs)
* CMS regulatory and long-term care compliance review
* Review of clinical nutrition care, food and nutrition services operations, and enteral (tube) feeding management
* Pressure injury, malnutrition, weight loss, and hydration case review
- Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
- A: Consultation with attorney: $250/hour
- Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
- A: Document review: $250/hour
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
- A: Deposition testimony: $325/hour
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
- A: Trial testimony: $350/hour (half-day minimum)
- Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)
- A: Travel time billed at hourly rate.
Reasonable travel expenses reimbursed.
Retainer required prior to commencement of services.
Available Upon Request