Occupational Medicine Expert Witnesses

What is an occupational medicine expert witness?

Occupational medicine expert witness candidates are typically board certified PhDs with a background in emergency medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, internal medicine, and/or are a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) or Certified Independent Medical Examiner (CIME). The chosen expert may be associated with an industry organization such as the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (FACOEM), or the National Association of Occupational Health Professionals (NAOCHP). Experts in occupational medicine should be familiar with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines and regulations.

What types of cases require an occupational 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 medicine expert witness case examples

Representing the plaintiff or defendant, when the need for an occupational 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,
• neurology referrals,
• workers’ compensation support,
• musculoskeletal impairment due to poor workplace ergonomics,
• environmental health (water contamination) case in Pennsylvania),
• healthcare facility industrial hygiene,
• emergency medicine,
• asbestos exposure in New York, and
• medical malpractice in Florida.

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

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

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

Related Disciplines

Occupational Medicine 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.

Start Custom Search

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

  
  Start Occupational Medicine Expert Search

• 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.

  
  Start Occupational Medicine Expert Search

• Expert Witness #275854

  This medical toxicology expert holds MD and PhD credentials and is a practicing physician specializing in medical toxicology, particularly environmental and industrial exposures.

  This expert holds an academic doctoral degree in environmental toxicology, with dissertation work involving the health effects of combustion and pyrolysis product inhalation, smoke exposure, and associated aerosol physics. This expert has diagnosed and treated patients suffering from inhalation injuries, including asthma, allergies, rhinitis, bronchitis, bronchiolitis, alveolitis, pulmonary fibrosis, and other exposure-related diseases of the respiratory system.

  This expert has served on the academic faculty of a public health institution for much of the past several decades, training physicians in environmental and occupational medicine, teaching graduate-level classes in environmental health and medical practice, and performing research in related fields such as health effects of air pollution, heavy metal toxicity, and asthma.

  For over 30 years, this expert has contributed expertise in legal proceedings where training and experience assisted judges and juries in understanding scientific data and synthesizing facts to reach opinions in a legal context.

  
  Start Occupational Medicine Expert Search

• Expert Witness #276930

  This toxicology expert holds an MD and MPH, is a FACOEM, and is triple board-certified in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Aerospace Medicine, and Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Each of these specialties provides a unique and complementary perspective on injury mechanisms, toxic exposures, and safety systems, including injuries caused by airbag deployment and chemical burns.

  Occupational and Environmental Medicine focuses on the health effects of chemical, physical, and mechanical exposures in the workplace and general environment. This includes expertise in toxicology, dermatologic injuries, and causation analysis, which are key components in assessing whether a chemical burn resulted from airbag deployment. Aerospace Medicine further strengthens this foundation through its emphasis on high-speed impact biomechanics, confined-space exposures, and the physiological effects of rapid-deployment systems similar to those in vehicles.

  In expert witness work, this expert has opined in cases regarding chemical exposures and injuries, including chemical burns.

  
  Start Occupational Medicine Expert Search

• Expert Witness #279944

  This forensic psychiatry expert holds a PhD, is a licensed and board-certified psychiatrist, and has worked in the forensic field for over 20 years, performing hundreds of independent medical evaluations (IMEs) and record reviews. This expert has experience treating patients with a wide variety of psychiatric disorders, including depression; prescribing antidepressants; and understanding the interactions of these medications.

  This expert has served as a clinical psychiatry and behavioral science faculty member at a university school of medicine and previously as an adjunct law professor. This expert is currently in private practice in general and occupational psychiatry and serves in a medical director role for a health and law resource center providing consultant and expert witness services in matters involving causation in complex trauma, catastrophic bodily injury, medical malpractice, and civil competencies.

  
  Start Occupational Medicine Expert Search

• Expert Witness #280325

  This environmental medical expert holds an M.D. and is a board-certified occupational and environmental physician, as well as a recognized expert in environmental medicine and disaster and pandemic preparation.

  This expert has an active academic and community medical practice and consults to corporations, government agencies, and other organizations in the United States, Europe, and Asia. This expert has extensive clinical experience with individuals experiencing exacerbation of asthma after exposure to smoke or petroleum products, is Board Certified in Occupational/Environmental Medicine, teaches toxicology at a medical school, and has served on federal panels reviewing exposure to particulate matter and its effect on health.

  
  Start Occupational Medicine Expert Search

• Expert Witness #282347

  This allergy and immunology expert is a private-practice board-certified Allergist and Immunologist, is board-certified in Pediatrics, and worked as a pediatrician for several years before founding an allergy and asthma medical practice.

  This expert is a past president of two professional allergy and asthma societies, has been a member of a state pharmacy registration board, has published several articles on childhood asthma, and is a coauthor of a textbook chapter on occupational allergy in occupational medicine.

  This expert has previously worked as a part-time physician reviewer for a health plan and for a company with state and federal contracts to review billing discrepancies. This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
  Start Occupational Medicine Expert Search

• Expert Witness #287649

  This cancer epidemiology expert holds an MD and MPH, is a FACOEM, is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Preventative Occupational Medicine, serves on the medical staff of a well-regarded academic medical institution, and is a member of the program evaluation committee for an Occupational and Environmental Medicine residency program at a prominent school of public health.

  This expert is knowledgeable in cancer causation from an epidemiological perspective and medical attribution for cancer cases.

  
  Start Occupational Medicine Expert Search

• Expert Witness #289572

  This family practice expert holds an MD and MBA, is board certified in Family Medicine and Geriatrics, and has served in a director-level role and as a Family Medicine practitioner with a university-affiliated physician network for many years.

  This expert has extensive experience in operational management of family medicine practices, including senior leadership for a multi-specialty medical group and medical director responsibilities for primary care offices. This expert has also been involved in occupational medicine and form completion.

  
  Start Occupational Medicine Expert Search

• Expert Witness #297277

  This physical medicine and rehabilitation expert holds a DO, FAAPMR, and FS and is a physiatrist board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, with expertise in non-operative orthopedics, including spine care. This expert has been in practice for over 10 years and has treated thousands of workplace injuries, including many spine injuries, as a general physiatrist in occupational medicine settings and as a specialist for refractory cases. This expert is licensed in California, Colorado, and Texas and serves as a Flight Surgeon in a military reserve organization.

  
  Start Occupational Medicine Expert Search