Kinesiology Expert Witnesses
What is a kinesiology expert witness?
Kinesiology expert witness candidates typically have areas of expertise in mechanical engineering, sports medicine, exercise physiology, physical therapy, sports science, biomechanical engineering, and/or are professors at a department of kinesiology. Kinesiology expert witnesses have advanced degrees (PhD, MD) in biomechanics, biomedical sciences, and/or are practicing physicians.
What types of cases require a kinesiology expert witness?
Kinesiology is the study of human movement and function. A kinesiology expert could be called in for matters such as accident reconstruction, product liability, personal injury causation, or failure analysis.
Kinesiology expert witness case examples
Examples cases have involved:
- injury biomechanics,
- motor vehicle accident investigation in North Carolina,
- New York physical therapist practice,
- Los Angeles chiropractic standards of care,
- injury prevention,
- traffic accident simulations,
- prosthetics design, and
- occupant kinematics.
What litigation support work might a kinesiology expert witness be expected to perform?
Expert witness service could include biomechanical analyses, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, and expert testimony in the courtroom. In addition, a law firm may request a kinesiologist for pre-litigation consulting work.
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Kinesiology Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Kinesiology experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Kinesiology landscape.
Expert Witness #225926
This expert is president and Founder of a highly successful, internationally acclaimed consulting firm, offering services in usability science, formal user-centered product design, high-performance user interface design and design IP rights. This expert is a Certified Human Factors Engineering Professional BCPE. This expert has managed over 4,000 research and development projects over a long career as a leading expert in human factors engineering, product design, and design research.
This expert has a BS in Industrial Design and a Masters in ergonomics and biomechanics. This expert worked directly with product design pioneers. This expert was directly responsible for research and development of mission-critical user interfaces, including the design of primary trading systems. This expert's experience spans many years and includes consumer, commercial, military, and aerospace applications. This expert served on several national and international panels and has chaired two ANSI standards committees. This expert has consulted with many leading corporations on strategic issues of screen-based UX optimization, product design, usability science, Intellectual property, and fixed to virtual migration of products and services.
This expert has served as an expert in over 75 major IP cases covering design patents, trade dress, copyright, utility patents related to GUI & product design for the most demanding and high-visibility clients and law firms. The following is an example of the research services this expert offers designed to improve legal outcomes in an increasingly complex litigation environment:
- Pre-Complaint Rapid Infringement Assessment- Prior Art Research and Analysis (Unconventional Sources)- Consumer Research for the Ordinary Observer Test- Design Patent Damages Research and Strategy- Consumer Research for Copyright Infringement Analysis- Specialized Trial Visual Aid and Demonstration Development- Trial Narrative Testing- Design Change Analysis to Reduce Possible InfringementThis expert holds numerous U.S. and international patents and has been quoted as an expert in the field. This expert is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on UX optimization, usability science, user interface design and IP related matters. This expert lectures at leading graduate programs.
Start Kinesiology Expert SearchExpert Witness #258116
This expert brings to the table many years of experience as the principle investigator of a highly successful forensic consultancy specializing in the fields of Human Factors, Safety Engineering, Industrial Engineering. This expert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (Mechanical), a Master's Degree in Safety, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering. This expert also serves as adjunct associate professor in a Systems and Industrial Engineering Department in a College of Engineering.
Throughout the years, this expert has been retained to investigate systems for probable potential incident causes due to oversights or mistakes due to design, manufacture, construction and/or maintenance of a product or premise. Using forensic methods coupled with the principles and practices for human factors/ergonomics, systems engineering, industrial engineering, and safety engineering to analyze incidents, these investigations are intended to result in recommendations for modifications of the existing system to reduce the probability of future occurrences. This expert's investigations generally include looking at human performance characteristics and the interaction with the other system components: other humans, the technology, the environment, and the interfaces that are intended to facilitate the interactions. The various human performance characteristics can include 1) the physical (anthropometry, kinematics, strength, joint range of motion), 2) physiological (the sensory systems, performance capacity), 3) psychological (decision making, risk identification, assessment, and aversion, perception, expectations, information processing, communications), and 4) biomechanics (injury causation, forces applied to the body, forces applied by the body).
This expert has served as an expert witness in hundreds of litigated matters. This expert's unique educational and experiential background, combined with meticulous attention to detail provide clients with exceptionally high-quality reports, qualified expert testimony, and effective technical case management.
Start Kinesiology Expert SearchExpert Witness #260239
This expert is both a Professional Engineer and a Ph.D. who focuses on human factors and the biomechanics of injury causation. This expert has significant experience industry as well as consulting experience in product design, manufacturing and safety-related issues and the applicable standards for a wide variety of products and applications. This expert's experience with Industrial accidents in particular, includes machine guarding, rotating machinery, pinch-points, forklifts, explosions and OSHA/MESHA issues. This expert is well published, is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, and holds a machine guarding patent with another application pending.
Start Kinesiology Expert SearchExpert Witness #261666
This expert is the principal owner of a biomechanical engineering company providing design and development of medical devices. With many years' experience in the medical devices industry, this expert also serves as a technical and testifying expert in patent and products matters involving medical devices, and biomechanical issues. This expert has specific experience with surgical cutting tools. As Vice President of Product Development, and as Mechanical Engineer for medical device companies, this expert provided both design and development of mechanical tools used in surgical procedures. This expert holds a Master's in Mechanical Engineering and is a Professional Engineer; this expert can speak with authority on issues of machine tolerances and dimensional variances in the manufacturing process. This expert holds over a dozen US patents in the orthopedic medical device field, has twenty publications and is a frequent presenter at industry conferences.
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