Forensic Toxicology Expert Witnesses

What is a forensic toxicology expert witness?

Forensic toxicology expert witness candidates typically have advanced degrees and backgrounds in chemistry, environmental medicine/environmental health, forensic pathology, emergency medicine, clinical toxicology, internal medicine, and/or are Certified Industrial Hygienists (CIH). Forensic toxicology uses analytical chemistry, pharmacology and clinical chemistry to assist in death, poisoning, and drug use investigations. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, the lead attorney may require a medical toxicology expert with prior expert witness testimony experience. 

What types of cases require a forensic toxicology expert witness?

A forensic toxicologist determines the presence of toxic substances, as well as the effects those chemicals have on the subject body. Litigation support by a forensic toxicology expert witness often involves medical or criminal litigation, toxic tort, or product liability. A toxicologist can be pivotal in assisting law enforcement at a crime scene investigation.

Forensic toxicology expert witness case examples

When toxicology cases arise that require expert witnesses, top legal professionals call on Cahn Litigation Services. Example cases have encompassed:

• carbon monoxide poisoning,
• drug safety and adverse drug reactions,
• pharmacology and toxicology,
• opioids,
• DUI investigation involving personal injury,
• heavy metals health risks,
• drug-drug interactions studies,
• industrial chemicals,
• pharmacokinetics,
• dioxins,
• polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB),
• benzene,
• mesothelioma,
• workers compensation involving toxic exposure at a healthcare facility,
• clinical pharmacology,
• environmental toxicology,
• drug testing,
• pediatric chemical exposure in New York, and
• medical malpractice.

What litigation support work might a forensic toxicology expert witness be expected to perform?

Expert witness services by a forensic toxicology professional could include research and authoring expert reports, depositions, providing expert opinions, and expert testimony in the courtroom. In additional, a law firm may require an expert for pre-litigation toxicology consulting services.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a forensic toxicology expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.

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Forensic Toxicology Expert Witness - Representative Bios

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Forensic Toxicology experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Forensic Toxicology landscape.

• Expert Witness #260569

  This expert provides expert professional forensic medicine support services for all medicolegal issues in this expert’s specialties. As a medical expert, this expert has the requisite clinical experience and academic achievement to form an objective medical opinion to a reasonable degree of medical probability and certainty. This expert integrates clinical experience, hands-on clinical practice, knowledge of medicine, and scientific evidence to form an independent, objective opinion. This expert gathers relevant data which this expert then analyzes as part of the process of differential diagnosis to formulate an expert medical opinion. This expert’s opinion can then be communicated by written report, deposition, or courtroom testimony. This expert specializes in the Evaluation and Treatment of Cardiology; Hypertension; Nephrology; Pulmonary Disease; Environmental Toxic Illness such as leukemia, cancers, and sick building syndrome; Drug Toxicity and Standard of Care. This expert has extensive experience in providing expert medical opinion regarding the forensic, occupational, clinical, and environmental aspects of exposure to the following toxins, among others:

  • Gasoline
  • Diesel
  • Ammonia
  • Solvents
  • Lead
  • Asbestos
  • Molds
  • Latex
  • Pesticides
  • Herbicides

  This expert provides medical record review for identification of meritorious/non-meritorious claims, negligence and review of prior medical records and medical history for relevance. This expert conducts a comprehensive review of the records, identifying the significant facts, data, and information, which allows this expert to provide an effective case evaluation and decision making.

  This expert researches all of the medical literature currently available through on-line services and through this expert’s specialty electronic scientific library of many years of data, and access to some of the largest medical libraries in the world in order to provide scientific evidence which supports causation.

  This expert has access to more than 50 web sites on toxicology and occupational medicine and has a full time researcher trained in the field updating this expert’s extensive scientific database, and a large support personnel for data research and assessment. As a fellow and member of scientific societies, this expert has access to cutting edge scientific research and frequently speaks to top national and international leaders in toxicology and medicine.

  This expert provides reliable medical opinion concerning whether there is a link between the injurious exposure an individual has experienced and the medical conditions or symptoms which are being reported, and substantiates expert medical opinion with well-established and peer-reviewed scientific evidence and documentation. This expert provides professional deposition and court testimony which furnishes relevant scientific evidence to substantiate medical opinions.

  This expert will provide case strategy: when industrial hygiene data are needed, when and what type of additional experts are warranted (i.e. epidemiology, oncology, etc.). This expert provides evaluation of publications authored by opposing expert, as well as preparation for depositions of the opposing experts either by presentation if pertinent, on-point questions, or intensive development of comprehensive product that draws from all data and facts available from records, literature, depositions, testimony and reports. Frequently this expert will provide papers authored by experts, contradicting their current testimony.

  
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• Expert Witness #260788

  This expert brings to the table many years of experience as a Board Certified Forensic and Anatomic Pathologist specializing in Allopathic medicine. This expert leads a highly successful and in-demand consultancy providing on-site postmortem examinations. This expert also serves as Assistant Professor for a department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. This expert's services include:

  -  Comprehensive forensic case reviews and expert opinions regarding cause and manner of death

  -  Autopsy (Forensic and Hospital Cases) and toxicology report reviews

  -  Microscopic slide reviews

  -  Medical chart review for malpractice claims and complications arising from medical and surgical specialties

  -  Medical Literature and case law search

  -  Advice to counsel at any stage of a criminal or civil investigation or litigation

  -  Written consultations and/or taped depositions

  -  Formal presentations to attorneys, law enforcement, and forensic science/criminal justice students

  This expert has completed more than 2000 Medicolegal Autopsies and provided sworn testimony in more than 110 homicide and medicolegal cases.

  
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• Expert Witness #220904

  This contamination expert holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Chemistry from a well-regarded university and is a national expert in environmental toxicology and ecological research involving the transport, fate, and effect of pollutants, as well as quality assurance in government and industry. Experience includes managing pollution control and hazardous waste projects, along with assignments in engineering, analytical science, and toxicology science for regulatory compliance, product registration, risk assessment, and technology development.

  This expert has over 50 years of experience with No. 2 fuel oil and its chemistry, including studying the behavior, fate, and effects of No. 2 fuel oil spills into seawater in Arctic conditions. Work has included developing oil-analysis fingerprinting guidance, analytical procedures for government agencies, remediation of diesel and home-heating-oil spills in state and federal programs, source determination in spills and responsible-party claims, and toxic tort matters involving exposure to No. 2 fuel oil. Forensic evaluations have generally involved contamination in final blending, transportation, storage, mislabeling, or transportation and storage containers.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #260493

  This fabric flammability expert holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry and has conducted research and teaching at universities in Argentina and the United Kingdom. This expert also worked for over 5 years at a major materials company as a fire sciences manager in a vinyl division.

  This expert's principal activities have included research and development, mainly in fire testing, fire hazard, and combustion toxicology. This expert has chaired technical fire subcommittees for plastics and vinyl industry fire safety organizations and later joined a fire consulting organization.

  This expert is a member of ASTM committees related to fire standards and electrical materials, NFPA, CSA, the Combustion Institute, and an international fire safety science association. This expert chairs an ASTM subcommittee on fire hazard assessment and several task groups. This expert is an associate editor of a fire science journal and serves on the editorial boards of several scientific fire journals. This expert has published over 170 scientific papers, including work on the forensic evaluation of clothing flammability for a peer-reviewed fire science journal.

  This expert has offered consulting services for fire-related legal cases since the early 1990s. Several of these cases have involved fabric flammability. This expert has access to and relationships with outside fire testing labs.

  
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• Expert Witness #281069

  This toxicology expert is a Professor in pharmaceutical sciences at a university School of Pharmacy and has served as Clinical Professor in pathology at a School of Medicine.

  This expert previously directed a graduate program in forensic toxicology and has served as thesis advisor for Master and Doctoral level students in forensic toxicology.

  This expert is also a consulting forensic toxicologist providing review, testimony, and research. This expert has been regularly re-qualified by a forensic toxicology certification board and previously served in a chief toxicologist role for a state medical examiner's office.

  This expert has supervised a laboratory supporting thousands of postmortem investigations annually and has served as editor of a forensic sciences treatise on medicolegal death investigation.

  This expert has testified as an expert in toxicology, forensic toxicology, and alcohol and drug testing in court proceedings, as well as in many depositions and hearings over 700 times. These included criminal and civil proceedings on behalf of government agencies, plaintiffs, and defendants.

  
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• Expert Witness #281113

  This drug toxicology expert holds a PhD in Toxicology and has over 25 years of experience as a toxicologist in the consumer products, personal care, industrial and specialty chemicals, agriculture, and pharmaceutical industries. This expert is a board-certified toxicologist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (DABT). This board certification is globally recognized and demonstrates competency in the field of toxicology. It is awarded to toxicologists who have met educational, experience, and certification examination requirements in the field of toxicology.

  Forensic investigations have required this expert to fully understand the principles of forensics, including issues resulting from recreational drugs and alcohol. This expert has served as an expert witness in numerous cases in the area of drug toxicology.

  
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• Expert Witness #281654

  This toxicology expert holds a Ph.D. and is a senior toxicology and molecular biology professional for a toxicology consulting service, with over 30 years of scientific experience and a doctorate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from a university biomedical sciences graduate school affiliated with a prominent cancer center. This expert is a full member of a professional toxicology society and specializes in forensic toxicology investigations involving drugs and alcohol, including performing retrograde and anterograde extrapolations to approximate drug or alcohol levels at the time of an incident using accepted scientific formulas and techniques.

  This expert has consulted as an expert witness for many years and has testified in both civil and criminal cases in state and federal jurisdictions.

  
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• Expert Witness #293536

  This toxicology expert holds a Ph.D. and F-ABFT credential and has held senior forensic science roles in a federal law enforcement laboratory.

  This expert has worked as a forensic chemist and toxicologist for over 30 years and has testified in federal, state, and county courts throughout the United States. Earlier experience includes work in a county medical examiner's office.

  This expert's casework has involved toxicological analyses, drug and drug residue examinations, alcohol analysis, fatal blood alcohol concentration issues, and retrograde calculations.

  
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