Occupational And Environmental Medicine Expert Witnesses

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What is an occupational and environmental medicine expert witness?

Occupational and environmental medicine expert witnesses are board certified MDs/PhDs with experience in emergency medicine, internal medicine, and may be Certified Industrial Hygienists or Certified Independent Medical Examiners. Environmental medicine expert witnesses have experience and education in the fields of medicine, environmental science, chemistry, and pathology. The chosen expert may be associated with an industry organization such as the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (FACOEM). Experts in occupational medicine  and occupational exposure expert witnesses should be familiar with Occupational Safety and Health Administration guidelines and regulations.

What types of cases require an occupational and environmental medicine expert witness?

Occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) expert witness candidates can provide litigation support for workplace health and safety in all types of industries. Matters may involve construction sites, industrial facilities, or environments that produce or utilize harmful substances.

Maintaining health in the workplace (e.g., prevention and treatment of diseases and injuries, maintaining and increasing productivity, and social adjustment) is the objective of the discipline of occupational medicine (aka occupational health and industrial medicine).

Occupational and environmental medicine expert witness case examples

When the need for an occupational and environmental medicine expert witness arises, top legal teams call on Cahn Litigation Services. The firm has performed numerous searches for experts including matters involving:

• burn victim independent medical examination (IME),
• toxic tort,
• Maryland warehouse health and safety issues,
• preventive medicine,
• personal injury in the workplace,
• Massachusetts solvents toxicology risk assessment,
• environmental exposures, i.e., heavy metals,
• neurology referrals,
• workers’ compensation support,
• Fitness for Duty evaluation,
• musculoskeletal impairment due to poor workplace ergonomics,
• environmental health (water contamination) case in Pennsylvania),
• California healthcare facility industrial hygiene,
• chemical exposure (Benzene),
• emergency medicine,
• asbestos exposure in New York, and
• medical malpractice in Florida.

What litigation support work might an occupational and environmental medicine expert witness be expected to perform?

Litigation support services could include forensic toxicology, providing expert opinions, research and authoring expert reports, depositions, and testimony in the courtroom.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an occupational and environmental medicine expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience. The firm has a reputation for providing candidates with the right balance of expertise and testimony to support each unique project.

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Occupational And Environmental Medicine Expert Witness - Representative Bios

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

• Expert Witness #256793

  This expert earned a Masters of Science degree in Industrial Health and has many years of experience in environmental engineering, industrial hygiene and building materials exposure assessment, most recently as a Principal Scientist of Health Services. This expert directed several multi-million dollar environmental remediation projects, superfund and environmental site and public health investigations including some with high public profiles. This expert has been retained as an expert witness in class action toxic tort litigation support for industrial clients and has testified at a trial in defense of an oil refinery for a matter related to air quality impact from a large oil spill. This expert has a wealth of expert witness experience, including matters involving alleged chemical and biological exposure-related personal injury claims. This expert has provided deposition and testimony at trial.

  
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• 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 #254474

  This expert is an electrical engineering expert with many years of hands-on experience in industrial controls, automation, machinery, equipment, industrial safety and machine safeguarding. This expert applies expertise to forensic casework involving industrial controls, machine safeguarding, workplace safety, industrial/commercial/residential electric power systems, electrical related fires, electric shocks, and electrocutions. This expert is proficient in the National Electrical Code, National Electrical Safety Code, Electrical Safety in the Workplace, OSHA Standards for General Industry, and OSHA Electrical Safety Standards.

  For many years this expert was a controls engineer for a control system integrator, where this expert was involved in control panel design, industrial automation, machine control, electrical design, software programming, installation, electrical contractor supervision, machine safeguarding, commissioning, project management, electrical power distribution and workplace safety. This expert was a corporate engineer performing electrical engineering in 4 different manufacturing facilities, including industrial controls, automation, process control, process engineering, quality control, robotics, industrial safety, machine safeguarding manufacturing supervision, and product development.

  This expert is a licensed Professional Engineer in more than 20 states and a member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers (NAFE), National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), American Association of Safety Engineers (ASSE) as well as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

  This expert provides technical investigations, analysis, reports, and testimony toward the resolution of commercial and personal injury litigation involving design, construction, operation, maintenance and training of electrical systems, equipment and devices.

  This expert’s areas of expertise include:

  Automation, controls, automated manufacturing, automated assembly lines, conveyors, robotics, material handling, packaging, robotic cells, automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), test cells, gantries, cranes, elevators, conveyors, lifts, turn tables, pumps, fans, scales, instrumentation, motion control, process control, boiler control, steam control, speed control, industrial controls, HVAC systems, air conditioners, air handling, boilers, compressed air, exhaust, centrifugal and absorption chillers, heaters, ovens, presses, grinders, cutting, broaching, stamping presses, hydraulics, pneumatics, vision, inspection, weighing, RFID, barcode, RF Radios, recipe/batch management, gas analyzers, motor controls, motion control, electrical control panels, control panel design/build (UL certified), PLC, HMI, MES, SCADA and software development, industrial communications (wired and wireless), information systems, data collection, data reporting, alarming, and industrial safety.

  This expert’s expertise also extends to:

  Industrial control software, programmable logic controllers (PLC), human machine interface (HMI), graphical user interface (GUI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). Other software Visual Basic, C++, Microsoft SQL.  PLC Software, Allen Bradley/Rockwell RSLogix/5/500/5000/IPDS, Siemens S5/S7/TIA Portal, Mitsubishi MEDOC/GX Developer/GX Works, Omron, Telemechanique, Modicon,B+R, Opto22, Steeplechase VLC, PC Worx, Wago, Automation Direct, Koyo HMI / GUI / SCADA Software, Rockwell RSView, Rockwell FactoryTalk, Allen Bradley Panelbuilder, Siemens WinCC, Mitsubishi GOT, Mitsubishi GX Worx, Wonderware, Intellution, Iconics, Cimplicity, Proficy iFix, Indusoft, Automation Direct C-more, Industrial Communication Networks, Ethernet, Profibus, Profinet, Ethernet I/P, DeviceNet, ControlNet, Interbus, and ASi-Bus.

  
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• Expert Witness #252890

  This expert has many years of direct work experience with: standard of care, special education, risk management, school and workplace safety, abuse, discrimination, wrongful death, policies and procedures, and personnel matters. This expert has experience as a legal consultant on school safety matters.

  
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