• Areas of expertise: workers comp., general liability, motor vehicle disability + many others.• Served as a consultant on behalf of several law firms and disability cases. • Performed countless utilization and peer reviews and testified as a medical expert.• Widely recognized pundit in the medical legal decision making arena.• Assessed complaints of physician practice and charges.• Equally adept at providing expert opinions for either defendants or plantiffs.• Specializes in return to work, disability, internal chart review, and second opinion evals.• Used pioneering approaches to medical reviews of pain and opioid drug abuse.

• Performed licensed consultations + evaluations on the skilled nursing floor + inpatient rehab unit.• Coordinated care for timely discharge and ideally return to work where clinically indicated. • Pioneered accredited seminars and systematic team conferences.

• Excelled in pain management services for patients residing in Daly City and the Central Valley.• Electromyography + non-operative pain management for sports injuries and musculoskeletal pain.• Treatment + rehab of orthopedic injuries + numerous chronic pain and neurological disorders.

• Served as Chief Resident.• Intensive residency training w/ primary interests in physiatry aka physical medicine + rehab.• Assisted patients w/ examination, follow-ups, diagnostics, prescription management, etc.

• Spearheaded an interagency project between NASA +the VA.• Helped to transfer shared learning from aviation safety to hospital risk management.• Introduced patient safety initiatives into 152 VA hospitals throughout the United States.• Developed lecture series, e-risk assessments + facility training schedules.

• Matured the risk management department to coincide with the corporate medico-legal division.• Evaluated confidential medical incidents cited within Kaiser’s largest East Bay facility.• Revised hospital policies and procedures to reflect changes in federal healthcare legislation.• Engineered a lecture series on incident reports for 1200 trainees of patient safety + risk reduction.• Provided risk management consultation to private and non-profit organizations.