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Yolanda Anderson, RN, BSN, CEN, CLNC is a Registered Nurse and has been working in the Emergency Department for more than 25 years. She began work in the Emergency Department of Los Angeles County, USC Medical Center, a level I Trauma Center. She then worked in the Emergency Department at Saint Anthony Hospital Central in Denver, Colorado, a level I Trauma Center where she helped initiate the Hyperbaric Medicine program. For 15 years, she was employed as a staff RN, Charge RN and Assistant Nurse Manager in the Emergency Department at Littleton Adventist Hospital - Littleton, Colorado, a level II Trauma Center. There, she helped with the expansion and reconstruction of the current Emergency Department facility.

A Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, Ms. Anderson is knowledgeable about all aspects of Hospital Care and Standards of Care for Physicians, Nurses and Ancillary Personnel. Her consulting services include:

Hospitals, Clinics, and Offices - Consult and organize for the development and expansion of a new facilities or offices and related care patterns
Personal - Consult with family members to organize health care history, needs, and medications and to help understand healthcare information and interpretation
Teaching - Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course Instructor, Triage Class instructor, Charge Nurse class instructor

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• Yolanda Anderson's Curriculum Vitae

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Elliot D. Felman, MD, is Board Certified in Family Practice. In practice for more than 32 years. Experienced in both plaintiff and defense review, deposition and testimony for evaluation of medical malpractice. Available for evaluation of Standard of Care for Family Practice, General Practice and Internal Medicine. Clinical Faculty - UCLA School of Medicine. Expert Reviewer - State Medical Board of California.

Areas of Expertise:

Family Practice
General Practice
Internal Medicine
Hospital Records

Medical Malpractice
Medical Records
Medical Review
Standard of Care

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A senior clinical faculty member at Harvard Medical School, Harold J. Bursztajn, M.D., is active in patient care in medical, psychiatric and judicial education nationally. He is qualified in both state and federal courts and is nationally recognized as a distinguished impartial, clinical, ethical and forensic expert to P/D attorneys and institutions. Individual and multispecialty team consultations available.

Informed Consent & Malpractice
Employment Litigation: ADA, Disability, Sexual Misconduct Discrimination, Worker's Compensation
Emotional & Physical Damages: Conscious Pain & Suffering, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Neuropsychiatry & Pain Imaging
Standards For Experts
Product Liability: Medical Devices & Pharmaceuticals, Toxic Tort
Criminal Justice & Public Safety: Diminished Capacity, Drug Addiction, Competency to Confess, Death Penalty Mitigation, Workplace Safety
Family & Custody Issues
Testamentary & Contractual Capacity
Professional & Organizational Ethics: Patient Care, Managed Care, Privacy
Psychoanalysis & Cultural Perspectives

• View Dr. Bursztajn's Curriculum Vitae

• Reviews Of And Praise For Dr. Bursztajn And His Work

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5/29/2003 · Expert Witnessing

Avoiding Ipse Dixit Mislabeling: Post-Daubert Approaches To Expert Clinical Opinions

By: Harold Bursztajn, MD and Thomas G. Gutheil, MD

Recent Supreme Court decisions emphasize the need to regulate the admissibility of expert testimony by means of standards that require opinions going beyond ipse dixit; that is, that are based on more than the fact that the expert "said it him/herself

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Spine Surgery and Spine Medicine Consultant

An evidence-based practice features the best available information translated into patient care. Critical thinking in medicine, and the combined infusion of traditionally designed spine studies and the data mining models of machine learning, create the current state of spine knowledge.

William H. Dillin, MD, is a spine surgery and spine medicine consultant at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic. He has been exclusively devoted to clinical spine, interventional spine, and spine surgery practice. He has performed over 7,000 spine operations/interventions and performs a wide range of technical spine procedures. The Kerlan-Jobe physicians serve as consultants to the Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Kings, Los Angeles Sparks, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Los Angeles Rams, Loyola Marymount University, and USC Trojan Football.

Litigation Support - For over 35 years, Dr. Dillin has traveled to refine and acquire the technical skills invested in Spine Surgery and Spine Interventions. His expert witness activity is embodied in his Harvard Capstone, "The Trial of the Medical Expert Witness." Dr. Dillin offers Independent Medical Evaluations and/or Medical-Legal Review, thorough reporting, depositions, and trial testimony as needed.

Areas of Expertise:

Spine Surgery
Spine Interventions
Cervical Spine Surgery
Thoracic Spine Surgery
Lumbar Spine Surgery
Failed Back Surgery
Scoliosis
Kyphosis
Minimally Invasive Surgery

Spine Fusion
Cervical Fusion
Lumbar Fusion
Artificial Disc Replacement
Microsurgery
Spinal Product Liability
Spine Medical Malpractice
Spine IMEs
Spine IMRs

• Dr. Dillin's Curriculum Vitae

• Spine Education

• Kerlan-Jobe Orthopedic Clinic

• LinkedIn Profile

2/14/2024 · Expert Witnessing

The Trial Of The Medical Expert Witness

By: William H. Dillin, MD

The law is central to human behavior, while medicine performs its own role in health and life. The medical expert witness appears before the law, toting biomedical science. The role of the expert witness sits on the scales of justice. Those scales should be balanced, and there should be regard for the lady holding them.

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Joseph B, Marzouk, MD, FACP, has been in clinical practice exclusively in the field of Infectious Disease since 1982 and has consulted and treated thousands of patients. He has more than 35 years of experience in the medico-legal aspects of Infectious Disease and has provided numerous objective reviews and testimonies for defense and plaintiff’s attorneys.

Degrees / Licenses: MD (Licenses: AZ, CA), American Board of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases; Certification Board of Infection Control. HIV Specialist. See CV on Website for more details.

Areas of Expertise: Infectious Disease in all medical specialties:

HIV/ AIDS
Infection Control
Food Poisoning
Hepatitis

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Ms. Roughan is a Rehabilitation Nurse Specialist who functions in the capacity of case manager, life care planner and expert witness. Her company, Roughan & Associates at LINC, is a nationally recognized Case Management and Medical/Legal Consulting service. It has been in existence since 1987, providing coordination of patient care; construction of Life Care Plans; and, consultative services to both the defense and plaintiff bar on simple and complex cases alike. Ms. Roughan has experience with diagnoses involving both children and adults and are knowledgeable in current treatment philosophies, identification of appropriate resources.

Diagnoses include, but are not limited to: