Expert Details
Occupational and Environmental Medicine: Causation, Disability Rating, and Apportionment
ID: 726612
Florida, USA
Expert has been a practicing clinician in a busy Workers' Compensation clinic for twenty years. In addition, for the past ten years he has been a Associate Medicine director two several large Worker's Compensation insurance companies, and written a great deal of policy and procedure relating to Utilization Review, Peer Review and Industrial Causation for these insurance companies.
Expert has published several peer review clinical studies in the field of Occupational Medicine. In addition, his textbook, "How to Write a Winning Worker's Compensation Report" was very popular for a dozen years, until the new ACOEM and ODG Guidelines took effect.
Expert has been a medicolegal expert on issues such as Causation, Apportionment, Impairment Rating and Appropriateness of Care in several jury trials, and numerous Worker''s Compensation Administrative proceedings over the years.
Expert founded Employer, LLC to provide quick, internet access for medical file reviews and Worker's Compensation issues.
Expert provides consultative advice both verbally and in formal written reports, daily to Workers' Compensation insurance adjusters and attorneys. He is asked to discuss issues such as Industrial Causation, Permanent Impairment (AMA and others,) Appropriateness of Care, Ability to Return to Work, Apportionment, and compliance with Treatment Guidelines (ACOEM and ODG.)Expert has been a medical expert on several occasions for Workers' Compensation Administrative Hearings and for Civil Hearings on many medicolegal issues.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1982 | Degree: MD | Subject: Medicine | Institution: Rush Medical School |
| Year: 1984 | Degree: MPH | Subject: Occupational Epidemiology | Institution: Harvard School of Pubic Health |
| Year: 1979 | Degree: BA | Subject: Biology | Institution: Knox College |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2005 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Medical Director | Department: Occupational Medicine |
Responsibilities:He is the Medical Director for a group of physicians that provide medical-legal and disability file reviews and Independent Medical Examinations for Workers' Compensation cases, on issues such as Causation, Appropriatness of Care, and Permanent Impairment. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1999 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Physician Advisor | Department: Workers' Compensation |
Responsibilities:He provides Utilization Review, Peer Review and file reviews for Workers' Compensation cases on issues such as Causation, Appropriatness of Care, and Permanent Impairment. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1994 to 1998 | Employer: Med-Plus | Title: Owner/Medical Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:He owned a group of five Workers's Compensation clinics in the North Atlanta area. He provided clinical care full time to Workers' Copmensation and Urgent Care patients. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1990 to 1994 | Employer: Salinas Multi-Specialty Center | Title: Owner/Medical Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:He owned a large Workers's Compensation Multi-Speciality clinic in Salinas, California. He provided clinical care and medicolegal evaluations and IMEs for Workers' Compensation patients. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1987 to 1990 | Employer: Mission Valley Medical Center | Title: Owner/Medical Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:He owned a large Workers's Compensation clinic in San Diego, California. He provided clinical care and medicolegal evaluations and IMEs for Workers' Compensation patients. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1985 to 1987 | Employer: U.S. Army Medical Corps | Title: Major | Department: Occupational & Preventive Medicine |
Responsibilities:After finishing residency with at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1985, he was assigned to two years in Nurnberg, Germany where he was in charge of the Occupational & Preventive Medicine Activity for 50,000 US troops and family members. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1996 to 1999 | Employer: Crawford and Company | Title: Medical Director | Department: Utilization Review Department |
Responsibilities:Expert was the Senior Medical Director and in addition to hiring and supervising the Associate Medical Directors, he was responsible for the Policy and Procedures for the Utilization Review Department and for insuring Federal U.R.A.C. ccompliance. |
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Government Experience
| Years | Agency | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 1982 to 1987 | Agency: U.S. Army Medical Dept | Role: Major - Doctor | Description: Expert was the Chief of Nurnberg Army Medical Center |
| Years: 2002 to 2003 | Agency: Georgia Dept of Corrections | Role: Medical Director | Description: Expert had a one year contract with the GA Dept of Corrections to initiate Utilization Review and Managed Care to the treatment of the inmates at the forty GA state prisons. |
International Experience
| Years | Country / Region | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Years: 1985 to 1987 | Country / Region: Nurnberg, Germany | Summary: Chief of Occupational and Preventive Medicine for US Army Hospital. Had to service the thousands of German citizens that worked for the Army bases in the area. |
Career Accomplishments
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| Texas Medical License Georgia Medical License Florida Medical License Board Certified Preventive Medicine (1987) Board Certified Occupational and Environmental Medicine (1991) |
| Professional Appointments |
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| Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, School of Medicine Assistant Adjunct Professor - July, 1984 - June, 1985 University of California at San Diego/San Diego State University Residency Program in Preventive Medicine, Assistant Adjunct Professor - January, 1989 - January, 1992. Kennesaw State University, Nurse Practitioner Program - Clinical Instructor - January 2004 - January 2005 |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| CUM LAUDE, Knox College, March, 1979 Distinguished Honor Graduate, Army Principles of Military Preventive Medicine Course May, 1982 Letter of Accommodation, U.S. Army Southern Command, January, 1985 Army Commendation Medal, May, 1987 |
| Medical / Professional |
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| Masters of Public Health (MPH) Harvard School of Public Health - Epidemiology 1983. |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| He has publsihed 7 Peer Review articles, one medical textbook, one medical text on tape, and one novel. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Expert has published on writing workers' compensation reports. Since then has has been appointed as an Agreed Medical Examiner by two California Workers' Compensation Review Boards, and a Desginated Doctor by the Texas Board of Medical Examiners. He was the sole provider of Causation opinions for Workers' Compensation cases to Las Vegas, Nevada Administrative Hearing Officers for several years. He has been working as a independently contracted Physician Advisor for several large Workers' Compensation insurance companies for over 10 years. In the course of this practice, he has testified in several jury trials as an expert witness. He has been deposed on his medicolegal opinions several dozen times. |
| Training / Seminars |
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| Expert developed a Workers' Compensation training program for doctors who write Workers' Compensation reports in 1988. He subsequently published "How to Write a Winning Workers' Compensation Report" in 1990 (Published O.E.M. Press) which sold several thousand copies until 2004. |
| Marketing Experience |
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| Expert started and sold three different models of Workers' Compensation/Urgent Care clinics, two in Califnornia and most recently in Atlanta, Georgia. For the past few years his focus has been on growing his Employer program, which provided medical file review and IMEs for Workers' Compensation and Personal Injury cases for insurance companies and attorneys around the country. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| Expert has a MPH degree from Harvard University with an emphasis in Epidemiology. He has published about a dozen Peer Review medical research articles. |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
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| Spanish | Expert is fluent in medical Spanish, and has been treating Spanish-speaking patients regularly without a translator for 15 years. |
| German | Expert lived in Germany for two years, and has developed a verbal proficiency. |