Dr. Ruth Rimmer brings 16 plus years of experience in the field of Burns and Trauma Care to her Life Care Planning business. She specializes in plans addressing future care needs for:

Severely Burned Pediatric Patients

Severely Burned Adult Patients

Patients with Traumatic Injury

Electrical Injuries

Amputations

She is well versed in the:

Educational Issues Associated with Burn Injury

Psychological Issues Related to Burns and Traumatic Injury

The purpose of the Life Care Plan is to ensure that the individual receives consistent, comprehensive, cost-effective care so that the client may function at a reasonable level, and avoid complications with the best possible quality of life. Dr. Rimmer is prepared to provide the actual costs of equipment, services, therapies, treatments, surgeries, supplies, and medication and to outline educational and/or vocational training needs including monthly and annual costs of care projected over the client's lifetime. She is fluent in Spanish.

Dr. Rimmer is a well-respected researcher in the field of burn care. She has presented her findings both nationally and internationally and has extensive experience in both radio and television.

Dr. Rimmer is experienced in deposition and trial testimony for both plaintiff and defense counsel. Her firm also provides case management services for severely-injured pediatric patients.

Kristy Farnsworth is a Board Certified Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor and Licensed Psychologist. She has provided a wide range of Vocational Rehabilitation services for the past 27 years. Dr. Farnsworth's board certifications and experience have allowed her to focus on the analysis and evaluation of a variety of cases.

Areas of Expertise:

Catastrophic, Pediatric & Personal Injury

Permanent Total Disability

Social Security Disability

Product Liability

Medical Malpractice

Wrongful Termination

Workers Compensation

Divorce

ADA / Discrimination

Services Include:

Case Management Litigation Support Life Care Planning Pediatric & Adult ADA Consultation Social Security Disability Evaluation PT Disability Evaluation Analysis of Employability

Labor Market Survey Vocational Assessment Transferable Skills Analysis Expert Witness Educational Presentation Vocational Rehabilitation

Gene Bruno is a Vocational Rehabilitation & Counseling expert who has provided services to disabled individuals for over 45 years. He provides Testimony, Vocational Rehabilitation, and Life Care Planning for individuals with severe disabilities. His expertise includes personal injury, work related injury, medical and legal malpractice. Mr. Bruno focuses on the areas of TBI/head injury, spinal cord injury, amputation, birth injury, pediatrics, developmental disabilities, burns, etc. He works with physicians, economists, and other experts to develop economic impacts on the injured party. Mr. Bruno has been qualified to testify in State and Federal court.

Services Include:

• Life Care Planning
• Costs & Availability of Collateral Resources
• Vocational Assessment
• Transferable Skills & Labor Market Analysis
• Loss of Earnings & Job Placement Needs

Certifications:

• Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC)
• Certified Disability Management Specialist (CDMS)
• Certified Case Manager (CCM)

Healthcare Consulting, Public Health, Preventive Medicine, Expert Medical Witness Consulting

Dr. Joel L. Nitzkin is a Public Health Physician, Board Certified in Preventive Medicine. He has been the Director of local and state health departments, President of two national public health organizations and Board member and Chair of the Board Evaluation Committees of several hospital enterprizes and healthcare plans.

As a consultant, I have served as a "Mr. Fix-it" for broken, dysfunctional or sub-optimal preventive and ancillary service programs and as a general aid to addressing accreditation and licensure issues. The secret to my success is my unique combination of medical knowledge, epidemiological skill and policy/management/finance training and experience.

Kathleen Martin, has extensive experience in health care with 20+ years experience in Acute-Care Hospital where she specialized in Critical Care Nursing and an additional 12 years as a Long Term Care Director of Nursing and Administrator.

Ms. Martin was responsible for the oversight of nursing and clinical operations of 7 Long Term Care facilities in NJ for an LTC Management company. She has been an Expert Witness, Consultant and LNC for 20 years, advising plaintiff and defense attorneys on both clinical and administrative healthcare operations. Also Wound Care Certified.

Assessment & Evaluation of:

Four Elements of Medical Malpractice

Compliance of Standards of Care

Underlying Medical Conditions

Deviation from Standards of Care

Pertinent Missing Records; Fraudulent Documentation

Key Clinical Areas:

Fall Prevention and Management

Pain management

IV Care, Tube Feedings, Infection Control

Abuse, Neglect

Medication Management

Pathophysiology of Disease Processes

Interrelationships of Diagnoses

Timeliness of Care and Notification

Regulations / Standards

Consultation for the Legal Community / Long TermCare Industry:

Survey Readiness

Risk & Quality Management

Fall Prevention and Management

Wound Prevention and Management

DON Support and Training

Staff Education

Infection Control

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Michele Nielsen is a Legal Nurse Consultant and Nationally Certified Medical Case Manager, Vocational Counselor, and Life Care Planner, with 25 years of experience. She is licensed to practice nursing in Oregon and Washington. Ms. Nielsen has received national awards such as Outstanding Rehabilitation Professional and Outstanding Rehabilitation Nurse.

Ms. Nielsen provides full-service Legal Nurse Consulting and Life Care Planning, Specializing in Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, and Workers' Compensation.

Expertise & Services Include:

Medical Report Review Literature Research Product Liability Vocational Rehab Auto Liability

Correlation of Medical Events to Allegations of Malpractice Third Party Issues Negligence Wrongful Death Knowledge of Potential Costs of Medical Services (i.e. Anticipated Surgery)

RPC assists attorneys in Personal Injury, Commercial and Healthcare litigation, with economic damages and regulatory analysis, from loss of profits or earnings to contract disputes, business valuation, state and federal anti-trust disputes, and fraud and abuse investigations. Indepth experience in healthcare liability and damage issues.

RPC has prepared damage studies covering the construction, technology, manufacturing, waste management, trucking, public utility, real estate, healthcare, managed care and other industries and professions. Clients nationwide.

Led by Ronald T. Luke, PhD, JD, RPC’s experienced team of professional staff has backgrounds in law, medicine, economics, accounting, business valuation, health administration, nursing, life care planning, finance, and vocational assessment, and provide an integrated damages analysis. The RPC team works closely with litigators from discovery to mediation to trial to understand the issues in the case to develop an independent analysis of those issues and to provide a professional critique of the work of experts retained by other parties to the litigation.

Dr. Luke and his colleagues have been accepted as expert witnesses in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies in more than 25 states, and have testified in regulatory proceedings and consulted on projects for major national hospital chains, as well as community hospitals.

Because of RPC's multi-disciplined staff and large-scale document management and data management resources, it is capable of handling large cases.

Areas of Expertise:

Certificate of need studies Construction litigation Damages in personal injury cases Economic impact studies Economic, financial and statistical analysis Fraud and abuse investigations Healthcare market feasibility studies Healthcare planning Life care planning

Lost earnings capacity analysis Management disputes Medical records review Medical staff disputes Patient rights Payment disputes Personal injury litigation support State and federal anti-trust disputes Vocational assessment

Ronald T. Luke, JD, Ph.D. is a principal consultant and president of Research & Planning Consultants, LP. Ron joined RPC in 1976 and became its president and principal owner in 1979. Along with working on personal injury and commercial litigation, he has consulted on projects for health care providers, managed care plans and public agencies in more than 25 states. He also serves as an expert witness in trials, administrative proceedings and legislative hearings.

Vocational Rehabilitation & Life Care Plan Consultation since 1997

Dr. Robinson's professional practice is focused on working with person's experiencing career, occupational & vocational challenges. Clients include individuals, employers, government agencies, attorneys and insurance companies.

Dr. Robinson holds a doctoral degree in Rehabilitation Science from the University of Florida. His research focus in on assessment models and methodologies in Vocational Rehabilitation and Life Care Planning. He is nationally certified as a Rehabilitation Counselor, Vocational Evaluator, and Life Care Planner. He is board certified as a National Certified Counselor and as a Diplomate by the American Board of Vocational Experts.

Dr. Robinson has provided Vocational Rehabilitation & Life Care Planning Expert services across a range of civil and administrative venues.

Ms. Roughan is a Rehabilitation Nurse Specialist who functions in the capacity of case manager, life care planner and expert witness. Her company, Roughan & Associates at LINC, is a nationally recognized Case Management and Medical/Legal Consulting service. It has been in existence since 1987, providing coordination of patient care; construction of Life Care Plans; and, consultative services to both the defense and plaintiff bar on simple and complex cases alike. Ms. Roughan has experience with diagnoses involving both children and adults and are knowledgeable in current treatment philosophies, identification of appropriate resources.

Diagnoses include, but are not limited to:

Neurological Injuries (Brain and Spinal Cord Injury)

Burns

Orthopedic Injures

Amputation

Chronic Pain

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Services Include:

Expert Testimony

Life Care Planning

Mini/Preliminary Life Care Plan

Video Services

Medical Record Review

RN Independent Medical Exam

Medicare Set Aside Trust Analysis

Medical Bill Auditing

Questions: Deposition Cross Examining

Christina Sanders, MSN, RN, NP brings 13 years of clinical nursing experience to Vera Juris. She leads the firm's activities and is responsible for managing all client casework regarding Medical-Legal Consulting, Life Care Planning and Legal Nurse Consulting. Ms. Sanders is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as an adult nurse practitioner.

Christina Sanders has been a registered nurse since 1998 and has worked as a nurse practitioner for more than 10 years. She started her nursing career in the emergency department at Johns Hopkins Hospital. After completing her Masters in 2000, Ms. Sanders began practicing as an adult nurse practitioner specializing in Cardiology with a large private practice group in New Jersey and then at Scripps Clinic in outpatient cardiology.

Ms. Sanders started her Independent Legal Nurse Consulting business in 2007. Her practice includes both plaintiff and defense cases and she is a testifying expert for cases involving nurse practitioners. Christina has been a member of the San Diego chapter of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC) since 2006 and has served on the chapter's board since 2009.