Expert Details

Rehabilitation and Rehab Medicine, Electrodiagnosis, Spinal Cord Injury

ID: 726844 Arizona, USA

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Expert is a physician with personal experience with paraplegia, having been injured in a motor vehicle collision at 18 years of age, with an L-2 level injury. He graduated from the University of Washington Hospital Inpatient Rehabilitation Program in October 1967, and subsequently from their P.M.& R. Residency Program in June 1983. He has extensive experience in program development, inpatient and outpatient, to include all phases and facets of adult and adolescent physical and rehabilitation medicine. Some specialty areas include: chronic musculo-skeletal pain management; electrodiagnosis, including ExpertM.G., nerve conduction and evoked potential studies; forensic rehabilitation, including disability extent, causation, treatment, and potential, and life care plan evaluation; interdisciplinary team development; development of local and regional medical staff relations and positive referral patterns, marketing and public speaking.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1983 Degree: M.D. Subject: General Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Institution: University of Washington School of Medicine
Year: 1983 Degree: Master's of Rehabilitation Medicine Subject: Rehabilitation Medicine Institution: University of Washington
Year: 1980 Degree: B.S. Subject: General Studies and Microbiology Institution: University of Washington

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2002 to 2007 Employer: Havasu Regional Medical Centerr Title: Director of Rehab.edicine Department: Rehab
Responsibilities:
Medical Director of Rehabilitation Medicine, inpatient and outpatient. Currently in private outpatient practice of General Physiatry and Electrodiagnosis (EMG/NCV).

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
More than 27 years of experience in all aspects of adolescent and adult inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, Forensic Physiatry, case evaluation and management, life care planning, disability evaluation for extent, causation, treatment and prognosis. Special expertise in spinal cord injury rehabilitation, case management and life care planning, stroke, head injury, amputation, joint replacement and multiple trauma.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
FAAPM&R;
FAADEP;
FACFM;
DAAPM.
Licenses / Certifications
He is a licensed MD in the states of Arizona, Washington, and Texas (the latter pending August, 2010).

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