Expert Details
Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Methodology, Mental Health, Police Procedures, Drug Safety, Malpractice
ID: 725269
California, USA
He has worked on at least one legal case involving each of theses topics often as a consulting witness not a testifying witnesses. Most of these were federal class action or MDL litigation or state medical malpractice cases. Over 30 years topics have included the safety of the Dalkon Shield, Agent Orange, asbestos, talc, PPA, Cox-2 pain relievers, smoking, Dioxin, PCB's, ionizing radiation, etc.
His area of expertise is the methodology underlying inferences from epidemiological studies and thus has been involved with data analysis and models in all of the areas of epidemiology listed. He focuses on complex issues in policy or litigation where the limits to statistical inference from epidemiological are of primary concern. Has most experience in problems where there are limitations to the quality of the data or the design of the study and epidemiological studies have made inconsistent pronouncements about the issue at hand. Is comfortable working on problems in toxicology or other areas where the pathophysiology or basic biology are complex.
He has worked on at least one legal case involving every one of these issues often as a consulting witness not a testifying witnesses. Most of these were federal class action or MDL litigation. Over 30 years topics have included the safety of the Dalkon Shield, Agent Orange, asbestos, talc, PPA, Cox-2 pain relievers, smoking, Dioxin, PCB's, ionizing radiation, etc. and a variety of occupational and environmental exposures.
Worked on a variety of product liability, environmental exposure, occupational exposure, and malpractice cases over 30 years. The first was the DALKON Shield IUD. Others include Phen-Phen, Tainted blood products, ionizing radiation, PPA, Agent Orange, Smoking, Asbestos, Cox-2 pain relievers, etc. The malpractice cases have involved cardiology, surgery, pulmonology, psychiatry, pediatrics, etc. Several tines he was a consulting expert as opposed to a testifying witness.
Education
Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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Year: 1971 | Degree: PhD | Subject: Statistics/Biostatisitcs | Institution: The Ohio State University |
Year: 1970 | Degree: MD (MBBS) | Subject: General Medicine | Institution: London Institute of Psychiatry/ Guy Hospital |
Year: 1971 | Degree: MD | Subject: Public Health Physician (Epidemiology) | Institution: British Health Service |
Year: 1968 | Degree: MS | Subject: Mathematics and Statistics | Institution: The Ohio State University |
Year: 1967 | Degree: BS | Subject: Psychology/ Preclinical Medicine | Institution: The Ohio State University |
Work History
Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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Years: 1987 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Professor/ Adjunct Professor | Department: Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Public Health, Medicine |
Responsibilities:Research, Teaching and Professional Service. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1983 to 1987 | Employer: Arizona State University | Title: Professor | Department: Decision and Information Systems |
Responsibilities:Research, Teaching and Professional Service. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1979 to 1983 | Employer: University of Pennsylvania | Title: Associate Professor (tenured) | Department: Statistics/ Epidemiology/ Public Policy |
Responsibilities:Research, Teaching and Professional Service. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1973 to 1979 | Employer: Princeton University | Title: Research Scientist with Rank of Associate Professor (tenured) | Department: Statistics and Environmental Studies |
Responsibilities:Research, Teaching and Professional Service. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1971 to 1973 | Employer: Virginia Tech | Title: Assistant Professor | Department: Statistics and Social Sciences |
Responsibilities:Research, Teaching and Professional Service. |
Additional Experience
Expert Witness Experience |
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He has been retained in a variety of product liability cases at the state and federal level including several class action suits and MDL suits as well as state malpractice litigation. Combines a deep understanding of statistical and epidemiological issues with and understanding of clinical medicine and biological mechanisms. Has given about 20 depositions over 30 years and has appeared in court a few times. Has also worked as a consultant to help prepare other physicians for testimony on epidemiological and biostatistical issues |
Training / Seminars |
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Has tended many seminars on advances in medicine and statistics. As an academic physician attends training seminars weekly. He has been a sworn state and federal officer and participated in prosecutions in the forensic area |
Other Relevant Experience |
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Expert is a consultant in epidemiology and biostatistics that focuses on methods and models used in assessing risks. One of the few MD/PhD biostatistician-epidemiologists. He is a professor of biostatistics, epidemiology, public health and medicine. He trained as a physician, a medical epidemiologist and then as a statistician and biostatistician. Prides himself on being able to communicate complex ideas in simple language. He splits his professional time between Baltimore and Phoenix. His primary interests are the evaluation and validation of statistical and epidemiological data and models in a clinical, regulatory, or legal arena. Focuses on problems where the medical issues are complex, the methods and models are varied and the data are limited or contradictory. Problems often include analysis of the methodology applied, analysis of the inferences made from a given set of statistical methods and complex chart reviews across specialties and across patients. Has worked on problems in drug and device development and regulation, product liability, occupational and environmental exposures, medical malpractice, and data and model interpretation in numerous specialties including toxicology, cardiology, Ob/Gyne, and surgery. Has given about twenty depositions in a variety of cases ranging from major federal litigation to state personal injury and malpractice suits. |
Fields of Expertise
applied statistics, binomial mathematical distribution, biometrics, biostatistics, bivariate analysis, chi-square method, clinical trial, environmental statistics, medical statistics, statistics, clinical trial design, continuous distribution function, curve fitting, design of experiments, discriminant analysis, drug clinical trial, F distribution, factor analysis, flexible statistical model building, measurement error analysis, measurement process, multivariate analysis, multivariate calibration, outcomes research, root-mean-square value, statistic, statistical data analysis, statistical degree of freedom, statistical design of experiments, statistical estimation, statistical inference, statistical median, statistical sampling plan, statistical simulation, Student's t test, survey design, police power, medical ethics, bulimia epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, occupational epidemiology, radiation-related environmental epidemiology, radiation-related occupational epidemiology, public health, epidemiology, chronic disease epidemiology, environment, environmental health, occupational medicine, radiation carcinogenesis, radiation effect, radiation risk assessment, reproductive epidemiology, chronic disease, occupational exposure, police, pharmacoepidemiology, Celebrex, law enforcement tactic, public health epidemiology, education statistics, addiction, public health psychiatry, medical record review, police procedure, observational research, econometrics, alternative medicine, lognormal distribution, antidepressant drug, failure distribution, antipsychotic drug, Student's t test, Bayesian probability, F distribution, occupational disease, statistical estimation, psychiatry, SAS programming language, probability distribution, normal distribution, occupational medicine, quantum statistics, statistical sampling plan, bulimia epidemiology, flexible statistical model building, statistical median, root-mean-square value, exponential growth, statistical degree of freedom, sampling plan, measurement error analysis, cardiovascular pharmacology, acceptance sampling, survey design, probability theory, new product market survey, statistical simulation, statistical quality control, accuracy, binomial mathematical distribution, forecasting, environment, probability, measurement process, density function, radiation carcinogenesis, radiation protection, scientific theory, statistical process control, radiation effect, queuing theory, quality control, public health, nonparametric statistics, multivariate analysis, mathematics, game theory, failure analysis, factor analysis, human exposure measurement, exponential density function, engineering statistics, discriminant analysis, discrete distribution function, chronic disease epidemiology, chi-square method, cathartic, bivariate analysis, biometrics