Environmental Medicine

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EPICON Associates, LLC, is comprised of a mufti-disciplinary team of scientists and physicians. We offer support in all aspects of health-related litigation, including:

Medical literature search and article retrieval, and reference library development and maintenance.

Quantitative and qualitative estimates of disease frequency and other events associated with industrial, occupational, environmental, and pharmacologic exposures.

Reviews and interpretation of animal studies and toxicology data and reports.

Reviews and interpretation of industrial hygiene data and reports.

Expert reports, depositions, and expert witness testimony in selected areas.

Consultation, review and referral to occupational and preventive medicine physicians.

Dr. Lawrence S. Mayer is a full-time professor and a part-time consultant in epidemiology and biostatistics who focuses on data analysis and models used in risk estimation. Dr. Mayer is one of the few MD/PhD biostatistician-epidemiologists. He is a professor of biostatistics, epidemiology, public health and medicine. He trained as a physician, a medical epidemiologist and then as a statistician and biostatistician. Dr. Mayer prides himself on being able to communicate complex ideas in simple language. His areas of expertise focuses on the analysis of the inferences made from a given set of epidemiological or biostatistical methods. He has worked on problems in drug and device development and regulation, product liability, patent disputes, occupational and environmental exposures, medical malpractice, and data/model interpretation in numerous specialties including internal medicine, toxicology, psychiatry, Ob/Gyn, and surgery.Dr. Mayer has given about 50 depositions over 30 years in a variety of cases

Martin E. Gordon, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, had been a Consulting Gastroenterologist to the Department of Yale University Health Services and many Conn.-based hospitals while in Private Practice during which time he received the American College of Physician’s Laureate Award for patient care.

Dr. Gordon created and instigated the annual International Digestive Disease Week "Learning Center". Its ongoing format now attracts approximately 14,000 specialists/visitors annually.

His publications have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, and the Am. Journal of Gastroenterology to name a few.

Dr. Gordon offers Expert Witness and Consulting Services for Plaintiff and Defense.

Medical Review Consulting, LLC (MRC) has been a complete and comprehensive resource for Medical-Related Litigation for over a decade. MRC has assisted attorneys in developing powerful strategies and yielding successful outcomes by evaluating, coordinating, and developing the complex issues of medical cases. MRC has the ability to consistently and cost-effectively provide value to a case.

For the plaintiff attorney, MRC's expedites case fact review saving thousands improving case selection. Defense teams value MRC’s ability to find the hidden and small details that help defend their cases.

Expert Location has become one of MRC’s most requested services. Clients turn to MRC time and time again seeking additional experts. The advantage of this services is access to thousands of board certified physicians and nurses in every area of practice. They locate experts in all areas of the medical profession. If they do not find an expert with the credentials specified – there is no fee incurred.

Medical Review Consulting, LLC operates under the direction of Gina I. Rogers, RN, BSN, LNCC. Ms. Rogers is an experienced medical professional and has worked as a legal nurse consultant to 100’s of law firms for over a decade reviewing thousands of cases. She earned the esteemed credential “LNCC” which is a Legal Nurse Consultant Certified that is awarded by the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. There are less than 1,000 nurses with this distinct honor in the country.

With over a decade spent working in a healthcare facility, Ms. Rogers had held a wide variety of nursing positions. With her healthcare background, MRC can save valuable time and frustration going through the difficult medical issues and simplify the facts and difficult medical terms allowing attorneys to focus on the legal side of the case. Ms. Rogers is a national speaker and has mentored thousands of nurses around the country on legal nurse consulting issues.

Most Requested Services: Expert Witness Location Timelines / Chronologies Review for Merit Missing Records Organizing the Records Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses Overall Case Coordination

Types of Cases: Medical Malpractice Personal Injury Nursing Home Social Security Disability Insurance Defense Criminal Cases Class Action Litigation

Dr. Alan Steinman is an expert in Maritime Medicine with particular emphasis on Sea-Survival, Drowning and Hypothermia. He has served as Surgeon General and Director of Health and Safety for the U.S. Coast Guard, as medical advisor to the Coast Guard's Chief of Operations, and as rescue physician on numerous Coast Guard search and rescue missions. He has an international reputation in hypothermia and cold-water survival.

Dr. Steinman is widely published in the field of environmental medicine, including a chapter on immersion hypothermia in a leading textbook of emergency medicine. His research into human cold-water immersion and hypothermia merited the prestigious Arnold D. Tuttle Award from the Aerospace Medicine Association. The results from his human hypothermia studies contributed to the basis of current U.S. Coast Guard cold-water survival time charts.

Dr. Steinman is Board Certified in Occupational Medicine; he is a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. His Doctor of Medicine degree is from the Stanford School of Medicine; his post-graduate medical training was at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Dr. Steinman has experience in both federal and state courts serving as an expert witness in numerous cases involving sea-survival, drowning, and hypothermia.

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