Emergency Management Expert Witnesses
What is an emergency management expert witness?
Emergency management expert witness candidates often have a background in law enforcement, fire rescue, emergency medical response, and/or emergency operations following man-made or natural disasters. Depending on the emergency, they may have expertise in FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), EOC (Emergency Operation Center), or other disaster organizations such as the American Red Cross. Emergency management expert witnesses often have advanced degrees in engineering, Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM), public health, or disaster response.
What types of cases require an emergency management expert witness?
Emergency management expert witness candidates can provide litigation support in cases involving personal injury, construction safety, industrial accidents, and workman’s compensation. Emergency management expert witnesses may conduct forensic investigations to determine the root cause of industrial accidents, oils spills, or other preventable catastrophic events.
What litigation support work might an emergency management expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by an emergency management expert witness can include safety evaluations, accident reconstruction, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, and expert testimony at deposition and at trial. In addition, clients may seek an emergency management professional for pre-litigation consulting services. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, the lead attorney may request the emergency management expert have prior testimony experience.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an emergency management expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Emergency Management Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Emergency Management experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Emergency Management landscape.
Expert Witness #262563
This expert is the Regional manager of a security consultancy, and lead Active Shooter Consultant. While serving in the military, this expert was deployed in support of Humanitarian Aid, and Combat Operations. During tenure with the military, this expert served on several Multi-Agency and Multi-National Joint Task Forces; under which this expert was awarded due to actions in combat.
This expert participated almost daily in human intelligence, screen procedures of hiring partner-nation forces, inside threat planning and analysis, firearms training, tactics training, combative employment of trained partner nation forces. Since coming home from active duty, this expert's activities have included:
- traveling the globe teaching investigative techniques methodologies to law enforcement, government, and foreign (US government backed) entities.- Concealed Carry Firearms Instructor, and NRA firearms instructor (for legalities, proper training, and deescalating measures).- managing a safety and rescue team of approximately 20 personnel (much of the safety and rescue law is applicable in tort just as security regarding employer liability and hiring procedures). This expert understands and communicates proper hiring processes in the private industry, tort law, and employers' responsibilities in not fulfilling their hiring and background screening requirements.- working in a security capacity for government and private industries, so this expert is very familiar with roles and responsibilities of an armed security officer.This expert received a bachelor's degree in Homeland Security and Emergency Management with an emphasis on the effects of religious prejudice and domestic terrorism and an active member in the American Standard's for Industrial Security (ASIS International). This expert has also been trained in Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) practices at the US Government's highest levels of proficiency, and is an expert at Risk Mitigation, Weapons Handling, Surveillance, Operational Planning and proficient with Intelligence Analysis. This expert is also working on new, progressive methods to increase safety and survival in an Active Shooter situation; detailing highly simple yet highly effective courses of action derived from experiences with insider threats overseas.
Start Emergency Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #269836
This air quality expert holds a Ph.D. and is a P.E. with over 30 years of experience assessing risks of environmental chemicals. This expert has presented projects and research at numerous conferences on topics including acid rain, dense gas plume dispersion, indoor air quality and dispersion modeling, ocean disposal of carbon dioxide, multi-pathway risk assessment, methods to estimate exposure point concentrations, vapor intrusion, landfill gas, and environmental applications of decision analysis methods. This expert earned a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from a well-regarded technical university and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from a prestigious technical institute.
This expert has experience evaluating Clean Air Act permitting issues, including Title V permits, emergency emissions provisions, and the Section 112(r)(1) General Duty Clause, which concerns regulated hazardous chemicals and safe management of those chemicals.
Start Emergency Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #277812
This workplace safety expert has spent over 40 years as a first responder and instructor. This expert has supported responses to notable disasters and major public events, including major terrorist attacks, a major domestic bombing, and a major international sporting event. This expert is the author of several books and publications on emergency management and planning, crisis management, and mitigation strategies.
Start Emergency Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #282435
This emergency response expert is a former senior emergency services director in a large urban area with experience in emergency management, including all-hazards planning, training, response, and recovery for natural disasters such as wildfires, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, and storms.
Start Emergency Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #282481
This oil and gas expert holds P.G., CHMM, and RSO credentials and has senior executive leadership experience with a professional services and consulting firm specializing in environmental consulting, engineering, and industrial hygiene. This expert holds certifications in Hazardous Materials Management, remediation credentials for petroleum storage tanks, and extensive experience in oil and gas cleanup and compliance. This expert also holds B.Sc. degrees in Biology and Geology and an M.Sc. in Geology from a university.
This expert has worked in the industry for over 35 years and founded a firm over 30 years ago. This expert has expertise in fuels, lubricants, chemicals, storage, transportation, blending, release response, emergency recovery, remediation across downstream, midstream, and upstream settings, and related compliance and regulatory reporting. This expert holds a P.G. credential or license in several U.S. states and has performed fuel system audits throughout this expert's career, including active exploration and production sites, orphan oilfield sites, large-capacity floating-roof tanks, and small retail facilities.
This expert has handled environmental due diligence for multi-state acquisitions and has experience with regulated tank projects, compliance audits, retrofits, full system removals, compliant reporting, inventory control, emergency response, gross recovery, oil and gas portfolios, transportation and bulk terminals, exploration and production assets, bulk facility divestitures, airports, refineries, transportation, distribution, and pre-redevelopment petroleum storage tank removal consulting.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant with deposition, jury trial, and bench trial experience.
Start Emergency Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #282634
This emergency response expert holds a B.S. degree in Occupational Safety and has over 40 years of professional experience developing, reviewing, updating, and implementing workplace safety programs, policies, and procedures for clients on a routine basis.
This expert's work includes comprehensive emergency action plans addressing weather and tornado preparedness and related employee training. Weather and tornado response and preparedness plans are developed and implemented to enhance employee safety and ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, including OSHA and state labor requirements. These plans typically address information and guidance from federal emergency management, workplace safety, transportation, public health, and weather agencies.
This expert has worked with numerous corporations, organizations, and academic institutions in developing and implementing related plans. This expert has also served as an adjunct faculty member in an occupational safety program, teaching upper-level courses related to workplace safety, including coursework on the development of emergency plans.
Start Emergency Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #294677
This mental health facility standard of care expert holds an MSW, is an LCSW, and has over a decade of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist & Supervisor. This expert specializes in treating eating disorders, acute and complex trauma, substance abuse, obsessive compulsive disorder, and depressive and anxiety disorders. Experience includes providing intensive therapy at inpatient and outpatient treatment centers for eating disorders, mental health, and substance abuse. This expert is also a former director of a large and prominent adult eating disorder treatment center. This expert holds a Masters in Social Work from a prestigious university and a B.A. in Psychology from a well-regarded university.
As a program director at a residential treatment center for a number of years, this expert ensured the facility's compliance with California requirements for licensure as a residential treatment center through the Joint Commission, including a thorough understanding of quality of care, patient and staff safety from physical and emotional perspectives, HR management, patient, staff, and facility vulnerabilities, health department requirements, record-keeping protocols and requirements, patient rights, and emergency protocols. This expert managed staffing and oversight of facility staff, including floor staff, doctors, nurses, dietitians, and therapists. This expert has been licensed with the state of California and approved for supervision of AMFT, APCC, and ASWs for over 5 years. This expert has worked as an expert witness in matters related to mental health facility record keeping and compliance with standards of care, particularly in residential treatment.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Emergency Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #304809
This FEMA Public Assistance Program expert is an attorney with over 20 years of experience with the laws, regulations, policies, and procedures relating to eligibility for federal disaster and mitigation assistance, as well as the coordination of federal, state, local, nonprofit, and private-sector responders in catastrophic events. This expert spent a number of years in a senior legal role at FEMA and assists clients with issues involving the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance Program, homeland security, the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, and related disaster-assistance programs.
This expert is well versed in the administrative appeals process under FEMA's Public Assistance Program and regularly represents applicants for public assistance in the arbitration process promulgated by Section 601 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
This expert has served as an expert witness and litigation consultant, with prior matters resolving before testimony was required.
Start Emergency Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #305153
This emergency management expert has over 40 years of experience in emergency management, including more than 30 years with a FEMA regional office. This expert's primary focus has been FEMA's Public Assistance (PA) Program, including service as a Recovery Branch Chief at FEMA with responsibility for both the Individual Assistance (IA) and PA programs. This expert has also served as a Federal Coordinating Officer on numerous presidential disaster declarations and led the establishment of mobile call centers in response to major disasters.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant, including work involving FEMA-related issues and post-disaster recovery matters.
Start Emergency Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #305160
This general surgeon/small bowel expert is a double-board-certified general surgeon and surgical critical care specialist who maintains an active full-time clinical practice in acute care surgery, with responsibilities encompassing emergency general surgery, trauma surgery, and critical care service lines within a Level I trauma hospital.
This expert brings a broad perspective through experience across a wide range of intensive care units, including surgical, medical, neurocritical, cardiovascular, and transplant ICUs. In an administrative capacity, this expert serves as Medical Director of a Surgical Intensive Care Unit at a Level I trauma center, implementing new clinical practice guidelines and refining existing protocols through performance improvement initiatives. This experience supports objective chart review focused on patient care and the identification of barriers to optimal outcomes, skills central to expert witness work.
This expert has performed thousands of surgical cases, with a large portion involving gastric and small bowel injuries requiring repair. This expert is familiar with intraoperative and postoperative management of gastric and small bowel injuries, including standard of care and best practices. This expert has conducted medical-legal review for over 5 years, with experience involving over 100 cases, a balanced mix of plaintiff and defendant work, and prior deposition, courtroom, and testimony experience.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Emergency Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #2871851
This airport safety expert has over 50 years of aviation operational experience, including over 30 years of experience in FAA airport traffic control. The aviation background includes government and private-sector work involving the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, air traffic control, flight operations, accident investigation, emergency management, safety, and risk management.
This expert retired from the FAA after serving in multiple roles, including managerial roles involving air traffic terminal procedures and air traffic investigations. This expert provided investigatory support to federal law-enforcement agencies and legislative aviation subcommittees on sensitive operational issues.
This expert holds licenses as a U.S. Airline Transport Pilot, Flight Instructor, Aircraft Dispatcher, and Air Traffic Controller. FAA work included positions at major U.S. airports.
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