Implant Expert Witnesses
What is an implant expert witness?
Implant expert witness candidates typically have extensive experience and expertise in mechanical engineering, medical device technology, plastic surgery, restorative dentistry, orthodontics, and/or biomedical engineering. A medical implant expert witness needs to have a solid understanding of the technology or procedure, as well as the ability to explain scientific evidence to jurors.
What types of cases require an implant expert witness?
Matters requiring the services of an implant expert witness often involve intellectual property, such as patent infringement litigation or trade secret disputes. A forensic engineer can reverse engineer components to prove (or disprove) intellectual property infringement or theft. An implant subject matter expert could also be called in on a medical or dental malpractice case, or a product liability case involving the failure analysis of a product.
What litigation support work might an implant expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by an implant expert witness could include reverse engineering, providing expert opinions, research and authoring expert reports, deposition testimony, and trial court testimony. In addition, clients may seek a medical implant industry expert for pre-litigation consulting work. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a subject matter expert with prior expert testimony experience.
On behalf of the plaintiff or defendant, Cahn Litigation Services has completed numerous searches for a medical implant expert witness, providing candidates for each case to the specifications provided by the law firm. Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an implant expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Implant 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 Implant experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Implant landscape.
Expert Witness #234821
This expert has many years of orthopedic industry experience, including product development and surgeon education. The focus of this expert's residency was Spine Surgery & Orthopaedics, and this expert is a co-inventor of 20 orthopedic implants patents, including spine fixation systems.
At an orthopedic clinic, this expert collaborated with an institute on research and design of spinal fusion devices and other medical and engineering technologies. This expert has testified on multiple occasions, and has reviewed thousands of patents in support of patent infringement and patent acquisition. This expert is an M.D. with highest commendations.
Start Implant Expert SearchExpert Witness #261706
This expert leads an internationally recognized leader in the design and development of novel, biomimetic hydrogel implants providing ground breaking treatment options in a broad range of markets including spine, orthopedics, neuro, and vascular surgery. In this capacity, this expert has developed and or coordinated design, development and commercialization of surgical instrumentation for minimally invasive products.
Expert testimony and activity:
- Product liability: Provided expert opinion on a case involving a broken screw for a spinal device.- Product liability: Provided expert opinion on a case involving spinal implant breakage.- Product liability for the defense: Provided expert opinion and was deposed.- Patent infringement case representing a large medical device company. Provided expert opinion for the case involving radiopaque markers on spinal implant.
Start Implant Expert SearchExpert Witness #262782
For many years this expert has focused on medical implant devices, and is a named inventor on many patents, including 28 issued US patents in the field of spinal hardware. This expert has represented a medical company's spine division as a technical witness in patent litigation, and has given numerous patent-related depositions.
Currently, this expert is President/Founder of a medical device company focused on providing orthopedic implants. Prior to this, this expert was CEO/Founder of a medical device company that developed innovative spinal implants. This expert is a member of the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery, Society for Biomaterials, and ASTM International. This expert holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering.
Start Implant Expert SearchExpert Witness #262816
This expert serves as Practice Lead and Senior Biomedical Consultant for a major consultancy. This expert joined this consultancy from a technology institute as a Professor of Biomedical Engineering. In addition, this expert worked as a Biomedical Consultant. This expert tested spinal products and other surgical implant devices for modes of failure and quality control.
This expert is responsible for forensic testing and evaluation of incidents involving medical products and devices. This expert also focuses on the biomedical analysis of failure modes and its relationship to product failures.
This expert earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, a Master of Science in Physics, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering.
Start Implant Expert SearchExpert Witness #263524
This expert is an Associate Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, working on the development and application of Titanium Boride materials for biomedical devices. This expert is familiar with the pink color of the alumina ceramic femoral heads; this expert became aware of this in the process of developing hip implant materials.
This expert is a member of the Materials Research Society, the American Society for Materials International, the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, and American Ceramic Society. This expert is a Fellow of the American Society of Materials International, and received an award from the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society for notable contribution to metallurgical science. This expert holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgy & Engineering, and is a named inventor on three US Patents covering material inventions. This expert has been deposed in two cases, and has provided court testimony.
Start Implant Expert SearchExpert Witness #263530
This expert has been conducting research on alumina (aluminum oxide or Al2O3) based ceramics for many years. This expert's dissertation research focused on the toughening and strengthening of alumina under the guidance of world-renowned experts in alumina ceramics. This expert has experience and expertise in the processing, mechanical properties and microstructural characterization of alumina. This expert actually created a sample of pink alumina oxide when one of this expert's samples was accidentally contaminated with chromium during sintering. This expert has continued to study the processing-property-structure relationships of alumina and zirconia based ceramics throughout this expert's career at a University where this expert has taught classes on mechanical properties of ceramics, corrosion and failure analysis.
In addition to research and teaching, this expert has served as an expert in hundreds of materials science related matters. This expert has been retained in several cases regarding the strength and fracture of alumina based ceramics, porcelain components, and hip implant stems. This expert's litigation experience also includes patent law cases related to infringement and Inter Partes Reviews. This expert holds BSc and MSc degrees in Metallurgical Engineering, and a PhD in Materials Engineering.
Start Implant Expert SearchExpert Witness #277971
This orthopaedic medical device design, testing, and failure expert holds a PhD in Bioengineering, an MS in Biomedical Engineering, and Licensed Professional Engineer credentials in multiple states, with over 20 years of experience and a senior leadership role at an engineering consultancy specializing in orthopaedic medical device failure analysis, independent medical device design and review, and medical device testing.
This expert has direct experience in spine implant biomechanics and research, including research involving cervical spine fixation devices and scoliosis rod systems using human cadavers. This expert has investigated spinal device failure and has trial testimony experience, including work for both plaintiff and defense sides in medical device cases.
This expert assists academic institutions, legal teams, and other clients in developing testing protocols for biomechanics in areas related to product liability, computer animation and simulation, structural analysis, sports injury, orthopedic biomechanics, and patent application, evaluation, comparison, infringement, and validity issues.
This expert also serves as an adjunct professor in mechanical engineering and orthopaedic surgery departments at a university.
Start Implant Expert SearchExpert Witness #279663
This dental implant materials expert is certified as a dental legal expert in Florida and has practiced periodontics, specifically implantology, for over 30 years. This expert's niche involves the surgical placement of implants and restorations in cases where treatment is performed in one day. This expert is familiar with all types of implants, including Zirconia implants and restorations, and has experience as an expert witness in dental malpractice matters.
Start Implant Expert SearchExpert Witness #279713
This dental implant materials expert has been actively involved in the placement of dental implants since completing an oral surgery fellowship.
This expert began a career in dentistry as a prosthetic dental technician during military service and has worked in the field as dental materials evolved from gold crowns and gold-and-plastic crowns to ceramic materials.
This expert currently works directly with dentists to establish stable occlusions for patients using ceramic materials, because craniofacial pain and TMJ problems can quickly follow when these procedures are not completed correctly. This focus on correctly completing dental procedures has played a major role in professional practice and led to Ph.D. credentials in pain management, pain research, and education.
Start Implant Expert SearchExpert Witness #279783
This dental appliance expert holds a DDS, MS, and PhD, with expertise in dental materials and their application in the design of dental devices and appliances. This expert has an in-depth understanding of prosthetic appliances for implant support and the mechanical aspects involved in their development.
Start Implant Expert SearchExpert Witness #280376
This urology expert is a board-certified Urologist, an experienced expert witness in matters involving device, implant, and product injuries and surgical urological complications, and has routinely performed the button TURP procedure for over 15 years.
This expert has performed over 500 button TURP procedures and published chapters on benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH).
Start Implant Expert SearchExpert Witness #292296
This dental appliance expert holds a DMD and PhD and has spent over 30 years in research and teaching focused on implant dentistry, including dental implants, bone regeneration, bone tissue engineering, and cell and tissue responses to biomaterials used in dentistry and oral implantology. This expert's clinical practice has focused on implant dentistry, including implant surgery and implant prosthodontics, predominantly involving a widely used dental implant system.
This expert trained in fixed prosthodontics at a well-regarded European university department that closely collaborated with the research and development department of a dental implant manufacturer and conducted numerous clinical trials of novel implant components, including abutments, screw-retained components, and copings for implant superstructures. This expert has taught postdoctoral courses in implant prosthodontics involving dental implant systems and ran an interdisciplinary clinic with maxillofacial surgery colleagues, restoring complex cases with implant-supported prostheses.
This expert holds a visiting associate professorship in orthopedic research at a well-regarded university and serves as a visiting professor at a prominent medical university. This expert serves as a reviewer for national research and technology funding organizations, as well as leading journals in the biomaterials and dental implantology fields.
This expert has served as an expert witness in medical device cases and has consulted on patent matters involving implant surface modification with RGD peptides.
Start Implant Expert SearchExpert Witness #292505
This prosthodontics expert holds a DMD and is a practitioner, inventor, and educator in prosthodontics. This expert focused practice on prosthetics and implant restorations, with a preference for screw-retained restorations. The work included referrals from dentists involving damaged screws that needed removal, including extreme cases requiring new threads to be tapped inside the implant itself.
This expert has experience with patented dental implant driver technology and understands the patent process. This expert has extensive screw management experience at multiple levels and has served as an expert witness in intellectual property, malpractice, and dental board cases.
Start Implant Expert SearchExpert Witness #292524
This implant screw expert holds a PhD and has over 40 years of experience in mechanical engineering and biomechanics.
Formerly, this expert served as director of a biomechanics laboratory at a medical center and held academic appointments as Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at a well-regarded university prior to retirement.
This expert has researched and published articles on medical implant screws and has consulted on many litigation matters.
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