Expert Details
Health & Human Services, Expert Witness
ID: 724575
Kansas, USA
He has extensive training and experience in health and human service management, special education, quality assurance, performance management and regulatory compliance.
His casework includes personal injury, wrongful death, deficient practices in nursing care centers, community and residential mental retardation programs, private psychiatric facilities, juvenile treatment and special education. He has been involved in over 125 cases related to nursing home care, mental retardation, mental health, special education and juvenile treatment.
Expert has provided deposition testimony 24 times, trial testimony six times, spends 20% of his professional time in expert witness work and is retained by the plaintiff 90% of the time.
2007- South Central Kansas Trauma Council Strategic Planning Activity Wichita, Kansas
2000- Mental Health & Personal Injury Thurswell, Chayet & Weiner
Liberty Health Care- Strategic Planning
2001- Maloney & Maloney, P.C. Mental Retardation & Wrongful Death
2001- Turner & Turner- Medical Center Personal Injury
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1968 | Degree: BSE | Subject: Special Education (MR) | Institution: Arkansas State Uinversity |
| Year: 1969 | Degree: MSE | Subject: Speical Education (MR) | Institution: Arkansas State Uinversity |
| Year: 1975 | Degree: PhD | Subject: Behavior Disorders | Institution: St. Louis University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 1994 to 2015 | Employer: Friends University | Title: Professor of Management | Department: Graduate School of Business |
Responsibilities:He teaches graduate classes for non-traditional students returning to college to complete their MBA and Masters in Health Care Leadership. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1987 to 1994 | Employer: Winfield State Hospital & Training Center | Title: Director | Department: Administration |
Responsibilities:He was the Director of this public residential facility for the mentally retarded. WSH&TC was a 500 bed, 1500 employee and $35,000,000 facility. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1986 to 1987 | Employer: Kansas Department of Mental Retardation | Title: Special Assistant to the Commisioner | Department: Administration |
Responsibilities:He responsible for the quality of care provided in all state mental health and mental retardation facilties. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1994 to 2003 | Employer: Ceda Vale Community Hospital | Title: Administrator | Department: |
Responsibilities:He was the Administrator of a Critical Access Hospital that provided acute and long term care services |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1996 to 2003 | Employer: Cedar Vale Human Services | Title: CEO | Department: |
Responsibilities:He was the Chief Executive Officer for this non-profit human service organizations. Service components included a cummunity support system for persons with mental retardtion and a 50 bed intermediate care nursing home. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| American Association on Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, American Management Association, President, Kansas Chapter (1993) American Association on Mental Retardation; |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| Qualified Mental Retardation Professional |
| Professional Appointments |
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| Vice-President Region V (1992) |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| Developmental Disabilities Services Manager's Annual Award for Outstanding Management |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Several publications and presentations in the field |
Fields of Expertise
Americans with Disabilities Act, antipsychotic drug, behavior, behavioral science, cognition, cognitive psychology, disability, fetal alcohol syndrome, health care system, health care management, human development, developmental disability, human developmental effect, human growth, human health assessment, learning disability, learning theory, mental disorder, psychology, mental retardation, intellectual disability, nursing home investigation, nursing home liability, long term care, civil commitment, Americans with Disabilities Act compliance, nursing home, standard of care, wrongful death, quality of care, case management planning, nursing home training, disability assessment, nursing home administration, nursing management, disability insurance, sociology