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ADVANTAGE REPRESENTATIVES

Dr. Karen Magarian

The Smart Choice for IME / DME Observers

P.O. Box 25978

Los Angeles CA 90025
USA

phone: 888-977-8393 (888-XPRT EYE ) or 818-786-7412

fax: 818-786-7413

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ADVANTAGE REPRESENTATIVES (based in Los Angeles) assists plaintiff personal injury attorneys by providing reliable, experienced forensic observers to accompany clients (as an attorney's representative) during their Independent/Defense Medical Examination. Our primary function is to uphold limitations, audio-record, document and evaluate the IME/DME. We are also available for expert witness testimony at deposition, arbitration or trial.

Specifically requested by hundreds of personal injury lawyers, Dr. Magarian is readily familiar with many local orthopedic and neurologic defense experts and can thereby provide valuable insight about their particular style and technique.

Since 1988, Dr. Magarian's gracious and professional demeanor, along with discerning and experienced attention to detail, have ranked her as one of the most sought-after independent observers in Southern California.

Areas of Specialization:

Motor Vehicle (Auto/Motorcycle) Accidents
Railroad Accidents
Bicycle & Pedestrian Accidents
Slip/Trip & Fall Accidents
Work-Related Injuries
Medical Malpractice
Burn Injuries

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AMFS Medical Experts Nationwide

8,500 Experts 250 Specialties

6425 Christie Avenue, Suite 260

Emeryville CA 94608
USA

phone: 800-275-8903

fax: 510-486-1255

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Medical Experts for Malpractice & Personal Injury Cases
AMFS is America's premier medical expert witness and consulting company. We are a trusted partner with the legal community and provide a superior method of retaining medical experts. Since 1990, we have provided board-certified medical experts in over 10,000 medical malpractice and personal injury cases with a 92% win-rate compared to the industry average of 28%.

8,500+ Medical Experts in 250+ Specialties
Active Practice Physicians with Legal Experience
Free Cost Attorney-Physician Consultations
Medical Record Review & Testimony
Independent Medical Examinations (IME) & Autopsies
Essential Affidavits & Reporting

Credible Expert Witnesses Resolving Medical Cases
At AMFS, we carefully screen our experts to ensure that they are in active practice and are not "professional" experts. Our internal policy of blind presentation and review ensures objectivity and enables our experts to provide forensic testimony with the highest credibility. We maintain our high standards through oversight from an advisory board of esteemed medical professionals.
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eLEEte Physicians, LLC

Matthew Lee

MD, RPh, MS

5700 Old Richmond Ave.
Suite A-5

Richmond VA 23226
USA

phone: 804-358-1492

fax: 804-358-1491

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Dr. Matthew Lee is a Physician, Pharmacist and Pharmacologist who also practices as an Expert Witness and Legal Strategy Consultant.

Specific Benefits Include:

Increased quality and integrity of written expert reports, based on an expanded knowledge base
Time savings by only having to coordinate and discuss a case with one expert as opposed to two or more
Since there is so much overlap between fields in the medical profession it is often hard to determine where one scope ends and another begins. This ambiguity is dramatically decreased , and scope increased by combining physician, pharmacist, and pharmacologist into one
Communication skills of a pharmacist and experience dealing directly with the lay-public, in addition to the knowledge and background of a physician is extremely beneficial describing technical details to a jury
Practicing in different realms within the healthcare field has allowed Dr. Lee to integrate the multiple facets giving him a unique and distinct perspective that no other expert has

Case Experience Includes:

Criminal and Civil Cases
Anaphylactic Reactions
Overdosel
Wrongful Death
Cardiac Arrest
Respiratory Arrest
Fentanyl Overdose
Dilaudid Overdose
Pharmacist Mis-Fills
Pharmacist Dispensing Errors
Pharmacy Standard of Care
Medication Adverse Effects
Falls Related to Medications (in and out of hospital)
Toxicology/Toxic Reactions
Medical Marijuana
Positive Drug Screens in the Workplace
Workplace Safety
Fit for Duty Testing

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EmergencyMedicineExpert.com

Barry E. Gustin

M.D., MPH., FAAEP

2928 Derby Street

Berkeley CA 94705
USA

phone: 510-549-1041

fax: 510-549-3268

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Dr. Barry Gustin has been in the active practice of Emergency Medicine, Toxicology, and Forensic Medicine for 25 years. He is the primary founder of the American College of Forensic Medicine and a past Medical Director of the American Medical Forensics Group.

His unique qualifications including board-certification in Emergency Medicine, Masters degrees in Nutritional Sciences, Toxicology and Public Health, and second residency training in Preventive Medicine enable him to analyze complex cases that could otherwise require several experts from different specialties to evaluate.

Dr. Gustin's Areas of Expertise Include:

Forensic Medicine
Emergency Medicine and Critical Care
Emergency Medical Ambulance Services
Trauma
Medical Toxicology and Poisoning
Public Health (Outbreak disease)
Sports Medicine
Wilderness Medicine
Substance Abuse and Addiction Medicine
Nutritional Diseases (Diet and Disease)
Legal Medicine (Standard of Care, Evidence-Based Causation)
Mechanisms and Forces of Injury (criminal cases)

Visit Dr. Gustin's other website: www.ToxicologyExpert.net

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4/5/2012 · Medical Malpractice

Clinical Standards In Medicine

By: Dr. Barry Gustin

Medical negligence litigators seek to establish which clinical standards are pertinent to their case, define what these clinical standards are, and then set out to demonstrate how the clinical standards were not followed.

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Final Analysis Forensics

Jon J. Nordby

Ph.D.

3532 Soundview Drive West

Univeristy Place WA 98466-1426
USA

phone: 253-627-2739

fax: 253-627-0350

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Dr. Jon J. Nordby is a Professor and Medical Investigator, focusing on Forensic Science and Forensic Medicine. He specializes in Medico-legal Death Investigation, Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, Ballistics, Firearms & GSR Testing, Trace Evidence Analysis, Crime Scene Investigation & Event Reconstruction.

Services Include:

Death Investigation - Assessment of cause & manner of death and Investigation of scenes & histories of principals
Criminalistics - Trace evidence analysis, Ballistics & Firearms Examinations, and Scene investigation
Forensic Analysis - Investigation & evaluation of presented scientific evidence and Scientific Investigation & evaluation of expert testimony
Police Shootings - Administrative reviews & internal affairs investigations and Questions of Justification
Ethics - Police and Forensic Sciences

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Dr. John C. Hunsaker, III, MD, JD

Associate Chief Medical Examiner

100 Sower Blvd, Ste. 202

Frankfort KY
USA

phone: 502-564-4545

fax: 502-564-1699

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Dr. John C. Hunsaker, III MD, JD is a Board Certified Clinical and Forensic Pathologist. He has over 25 years of experience as a medical examiner and has performed over 6,000 medicolegal autopsies. Dr. Hunsaker, III is currently the Associate Chief Medical Examiner for the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.

Dr. Hunsaker, III has testified as an expert in hundreds of state criminal cases, primarily in Kentucky and Washington, D.C. He also has experience in Federal Court, both criminal and civil, and has been deposed in many civil cases.

Areas of Expertise:

Interpretative Forensic Toxicology
Medicolegal Death Investigation
Pathology of Trauma
Drug-Related Death Autopsy
Pathology Services
Medical Records Review

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International Medical Legal Forensic Experts, LLC

Dr. Adel Shaker, MD, LLB, FCAP, FNAME

Medical Examiner/Forensic Pathologist

1302 Chandler Road

Huntsville AL 35801
USA

phone: 814-244-1916

fax: 256-880-1853

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Dr. Adel Shaker is a Diplomate of The American Board of Pathology and holds certification in Anatomic Pathology and Forensic Pathology.

He has over 25 years of experience as practicing, fully licensed pathologist with extensive training in forensic pathology and testifying as an expert witness in over one hundred cases. He earned his law degree and was involved in national and international high profile cases. Dr. Shaker is fluent multilingual in Arabic (all dialects), Kiswahili, and English.

In addition, Dr. Shaker is experienced in determining Cause, Mechanism and Manner of Death involving Wrongful Deaths, Medical Malpractice / Therapeutic Misadventure, Child / Elder Abuse cases, and evaluation of variable Injuries, Trauma and Wounds. He furnishes review of Autopsy Reports, Sexual / Body Assaults, Anthropology, Toxicology, Custody / Nursing Home Death, Suicide, Accidents, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Police Intervention, and Middle East Culture litigation.

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Jeff Victoroff, M.D.

Jeff Victoroff

USC Keck School of Medicine
Rancho Los Amigos
National Rehabilitation Center

Downey CA 90242
USA

phone: 310-542-9988

fax: 310-542-3588

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Dr. Victoroff is Harvard-trained and double board certified in both Neurology and Psychiatry. He has consulted and provided testimony at trial for 15 years across the U.S. in many criminal and civil cases both for defense and plaintiffs.

Dr. Victoroff is Certified by the United Council of Neurologic Subspecialties in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, Certified in Neurorehabilitation, and a Diplomate of the American College of Forensic Examiners. He is the author of many peer-reviewed scientific articles in neurology and psychiatry and serves as Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.

Dr. Victoroff's Areas of Expertise Include:

Traumatic Brain Injury
Memory Disorders
PTSD
Human Aggression
Terrorism
Homicide

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Joseph B. Marzouk, M.D., FACP

Infectious Disease Specialist

350 30th St.
Suite 511

Oakland CA 94609
USA

phone: 510-835-6225

fax: 510-834-8206

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Expertise: Expert in Infectious Disease-infections in all medical specialties: AIDS; Infection Control; Food poisoning; Hepatitis. Medicolegal consultant in above areas with extensive experience: case reviews, independent medical evaluations, depositions - trials (plaintiff and defense work).

Degrees / Licenses: MD (Licenses: AZ, CA), American Board of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases; Certification Board of Infection Control. HIV Specialist.

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Thomas H. Milby, M.D.

149 Wilderness Way

Boise ID 83716
USA

phone: 208-429-1255

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Dr. Thomas H. Milby, M.D. is a Physician / Toxicologist with over 25 years forensic experience establishing or refuting CAUSATION based on evaluation of discovery evidence and application of recognized scientific truths. Dr. Milby is a Medical-legal consultant with Expertise and experience in matters involving exposure to pesticides, toxic gases (hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc.), toxic metals, solvents,and PCBs. Dr. Milby has special interest and considerable experience evaluating RADs cases. He is also Board Certified in Occupational Medicine and Forensic Medicine. Dr. Milby was a medical professor at U.C. Berkeley and a Sr. Scientist at Stanford Research Institute. He has published more than 50 medical and scientific articles in the field of toxicology and occupational medicine in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Milby offers consulting services internationally, including such countries as India, Japan and Australia.

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5/27/2005 · Toxicology

Hydrogen Sulfide and Sulfur Dioxide: Basic Toxicology and Primary Litigation Issues

By: Thomas H. Milby, MD

Hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide are two sulfur-based gases that exhibit entirely different toxicological characteristics. Litigation issues involving these two gases are as different as are their disparate toxic effects in humans

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5/12/2004

Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome (RADS) & Irritant Induced Asthma

By: Thomas H. Milby, MD

Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome (RADS) and Irritant-Induced Asthma (IIA) are both new-onset, irritant-induced, non-allergic asthma. These two pulmonary disorders are clinically very similar; both are caused by the inhalation of irritating substances such as smoke, dust, fumes, gases, and vapors

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