Dr. Matt Baretich is a registered Professional Engineer (PE), a Certified Clinical Engineer (CCE), a Certified Healthcare Facility Manager (CHFM), and a Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM). He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering (BS), Biomedical Engineering (MS), and Hospital and Health Administration (PhD).

With over 30 years of experience in Clinical Engineering, Healthcare Facilities Engineering, and Forensic Engineering, Dr. Baretich provides Expert Witness and Incident Investigation services related to Medical Devices, Medical Technology and Healthcare Facilities.

Recent Expert Witness Cases include:

• Patient burn during surgery
• Neurological injury during surgery
• Orthopedic injury during surgery
• Fetal injury during an obstetric procedure
• Under-infusion of medication for an ambulatory patient
• Interpretation of patient monitoring data
• Inadequate maintenance services

Incident Investigation Services focus on incidents where medical devices, building systems, information technology, or other healthcare-delivery technology may have contributed to death, injury, or other harm to patients, staff, and visitors, or financial losses due to damage to equipment, systems, and facilities.

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Dr. Richard Collins, Former University Professor of Biomedical and Human Factors Engineering, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Collins has Demonstrated Accuracy in Research and Scientific Analysis in Mechanical and Biomechanical Engineering and Regulatory Assessments.

His work has been Extensively Published in National and International peer-reviewed Literature. He is an Internationally recognized engineering and medical expert, having earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Collins is qualified as an expert witness in civil and criminal courts.

Areas of Specialization:

Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Medical Device / Product Liability

Head and Spine Injury Cases in Motorcycle, Bicycle Collisions, Protective Helmet Liability

Accident Reconstruction / Failure Analysis - Serious Personal Injury and Trauma

Analysis / Injury Biomechanics: Automotive, Traffic Safety, Aircraft Crashes, Train Crashes, Forklift Turnovers, Elevator Failures, Sports Impacts, Sports, Recreational and Safety Equipment, Sports and Industrial Injuries, Ergonomics, Repetitive Stress Cases, Slips and Falls

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Jerome T. Anderson, CBET, CCE has over 30 years experience in clinical engineering. With undergraduate training in life sciences, and graduate work in medical technology and clinical engineering, he has a unique combination of clinical and technical knowledge.

Mr. Anderson is experienced in planning, clinical application, maintenance, and management of medical equipment and systems. He has been an Expert Witness in litigation involving a wide variety of medical devices for both defense and plaintiff.

Background:

Director of Biomedical Engineering for St. Joseph Hospital of Orange and Children's Hospital of Orange County

Regional manager for the Shared Biomedical Engienering Services of the Hospital Council of Southern California

Establishment of the biomedical engineering department at Marin General Hospital

Clients have included over 100 hospitals, businesses, insurance firms, and attorneys

Planned medical equipment and systems for approximately 50 healthcare facility projects

Performed investigations of injuries related to the use of medical equipment for 20 years

Developed and managed biomedical and technical equipment support programs for hospitals for 16 years before starting BCS

Dr. Yadin B. David has over 25 years experience in Managing Medical Technologies from Pre-Purchasing Evaluation, Installation, Training, to Servicing and Incidents Investigation. He is expert familiar with a wide variety of medical devices and accessories including infusion pump, laser, electrosurgery unit, monitors, X-ray, defibrillators and catheters. Dr. David is also an expert in Electromagnetic interferences (EMI) with medical devices and in Telemedicine and TeleHealth systems.

Dr. David serves a Consultant for industry and institutions including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Devices and Radiological Health, General Hospital and Personal Use Devices Panel, World health Organization (WHO)and medical devices manufacturers. His services include testing, adverse events investigation, engineering reports, program review and risk assessment. Dr. David has given many national and international presentations about medical technology management, telemedicine and medical devices regulations.

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Bison is a multi-disciplined engineering firm specializing in failure analysis, forensic engineering and fire sciences with a team of P.E.'s who have performed thousands of forensic assignments including in excess of 1,000 fuel gas investigations.

Legal professionals turn to Bison to scientifically conduct investigations to determine the cause of destructive events. Forensic Engineers provide expert testimony and consultation. Investigations include explosions, fires, carbon monoxide incidents, electrical fires and failures, structural failures, mechanical failures, accident reconstruction, specialized testing, and courtroom presentations:

Fuel Gas Incidents: Fire and Explosion Causation; Propane Explosions, Natural Gas Explosion, Gas Delivery Systems; Carbon Monoxide Testing and Evaluation, Production and Migration Investigations; Plant & Pipeline, Piping Evaluation; Operational Analysis; Appliance Evaluation; Code Compliance; Soil Gas Migration; Vapor Dispersion

Fire Investigation and Explosion Analysis: Cause and Origin, Scene Documentation; Collection of Evidence; Certified Fire Investigator

Electrical Engineering: Electrically Related Fires, Electrical Service and Wiring Failures, Production Facility Service and Controls for Chemical, Petroleum, and Distribution Facilities, Electrical Contacts, Electrocutions; Lightning Strikes

Mechanical Engineering: Equipment Design and Operation; High-Pressure Oilfield Equipment; Pump Design and Operation; HVAC Systems; High and Low-Pressure Seals; Plastic Part Design and Manufacture, Industrial Equipment

Accident Reconstruction: Accident Sequence Reconstruction; Speed, Time and Distance Calculations; Crush Damage; Braking; Steering and Mechanical Analysis, including Tires; Electrical System / Electronic Failures; Mechanical and Fuel Systems; Airbag and Seatbelt Fatalities/Injuries; Staged Vehicle Impact

Failure Analysis: Industrial Equipment, Vehicle Impacts, Airbags and Seat Belts; Elevator Failures; Helmet and other Protective Equipment Failures; Infant Crib Design Inadequacies; Carbon Monoxide Investigations, Crane Failures, etc.

Metallurgical Engineering: Metal Fatigue of Gas Compressor Components; Electrical Contact Evaluations; Cracking of Structural Plastics; Chemical Analysis; Corrosion & Stress Evaluation and Analysis; SEM Analysis; Electron/Optical Microscopy; X-ray Examination

Bison's clients argue their cases with confidence, secure in the knowledge that their claims are based on unbiased, scientific data.

The CECON Group, Inc.

Consulting in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials, Nanotechnology, Mechanical Engineering, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Related Science and Engineering Fields. Technical Experts with Experience in Patent Litigation, Products Liability and Personal Injury.

Our inside technical professionals will help you find the expert you need, either from CECON's network of over 1200 science, engineering, and technical business experts in 19 countries, or by doing a custom search. We will help you find the best consultant for your project. Advantages are:

Quick response, and no fee until the expert is working for you

Inside technical staff is able to understand the nuances of your project and effectively screen experts for your case.

Skilled at quickly assembling multidisciplinary technical expert teams.

26 years of experience serving the legal community and industry.

Litigation Experts For:

Products liability, patents and trade secrets, chemical and fire hazards, OSHA, EPA, FDA compliance, labeling, fitness for use, failure analysis, evidence evaluation, forensic investigation, insurance claims, damage valuation, IP valuation.

What CECON Consultants Do:

CECON consultants have decades of experience in industry, federal agencies and academia. CECON's strength is in finding the right consultant for your exact need from a world class network of technical experts. If the expert is not a CECON Consultant, we will use our external network to find the expert that meets your specifications.

Areas of Expertise:

Agriculture Bio Technology Ceramic / Glass Chemical Analysis Chemical Engineering Chemistry Composites Controlled Release Electrical Electronic Energy Engineering Environment Failure Analysis FDA Compliance Fermentation Fertilizer Fibers / Films / Coatings Food / Beverage Food Engineering Geo Science Hazardous Materials

Herbicides Insurance Legal: Expert Testimony Legal: Patents Manufacturing Materials Engineering Material Safety Medical Device Medicinal Chemistry Metals / Metallurgy Nanotechnology Particle Size Pesticides Pharmaceutical Physics / Optics / Magnetics Polymers / Plastics Regulatory Compliance Safety / Risk Assessment Sensors Toxicity

Dr. Robert C. Sugarman, P.E. , provides expert testimony in criminal and personal injury trials (both defense and plaintiff) with a unique combination of expertise in Physics and Human Factors Psychology.

Personal injury analyst with 40 years in human factors R&D; teaching; trial testimony and accident simulation and mockups; development of industrial operations, environmental health & safety, and maintenance industrial training for light to heavy industry; worked "in the trenches". Fellow of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society; staff at SUNY/Buffalo; contributor to ANSI design standard.

BA, MS, SM, PhD; physics, psychology; Purdue, MIT, SUNY/Buffalo

Areas of Expertise:

Product and Equipment Design Medical Equipment Errors Perception and Vision Instructions and Procedures Warnings and Labels Individual Differences Training

Human Factors Industrial Accidents Vehicle Accidents Construction Accidents Slip and Fall Ergonomics and Workplace Layout Physics and Optics

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Gary E. Kilpatrick and Associates, PA is a Forensics Engineering Firm dedicated to the application of the art, science and methodology of engineering and the scientific method to answer questions of fact in the jurisprudence system pertaining to personal injury and wrongful death. We provide technical competency, forensic evidence collection from the field and from documents, oral and written communications, objective, ethical and professional responsibility.

We are familiar with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence and Daubert and have given sworn expert testimony under oath during judicial proceedings. We are retained by law firms, public defenders and insurance companies on plaintiff, defense, criminal and claimant cases and work nation wide.

Areas of Expertise:

• Traffic Accident Reconstruction
• Vehicle Crash Data Report Retrieval and Interpretation
• Off-Road ATV Accident Reconstruction
• Motorcycle Accident Reconstruction
• Vehicle Inspections
• Industrial Accident Reconstruction
• OSHA Safety 29CFR1910
• OSHA 29CFR1926
• OSHA 29CFR1928
• Product Liability Investigations

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Michael H. Anisfeld has over 35 years experience with pharmaceutical and healthcare manufacturing companies in the US and overseas, working in all aspects of Production, Quality Control/Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs and Supply Chain Management He provides expert testimony relating to all aspects of compliance to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) impacting the manufacture and testing of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology products, and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs).

Mr. Anisfeld has provided articulate "expert" testimony in federal and state courts as well as in international courts/arbitrations on GMP and Supply Chain Management related cases. He has a thorough knowledge of FDA regulatory enforcement activities, and has worked with companies in trouble with FDA and other authorities to strategize quick and cost-effective recovery.

An active member of several key pharmaceutical industry professional groups (FIP, ISPE, PDA, RAPS, TOPRA) in the USA and Europe. Having served on their boards and management committees, he is very well known and respected in the industry and with regulatory agencies worldwide.

Mr. Anisfeld is a regular columnist on GMP-related matters for US and European professional journals, as well as being an author and a frequent lecturer on GMP topics.

mdi Consultants, Inc - Experts in FDA regulatory affairs, quality assurance and ISO 9000 certification. With 6 years in the FDA and 26 years consulting to the industry, mdi Consultants, Inc. has been an invited Speaker worldwide on FDA regulations and policies and has obtained FDA expert status as third party auditors.

OUR APPROACH

We utilize the following three part approach to providing high quality services to our clients:

Unsurpassed consultant experience – we identify and recruit only top quality consultants with deep industry knowledge to provide the most complete and insightful advice to our clients

Up-to-date systems and processes – we have highly defined systems (e.g. manuals, training programs, technical files) and processes (e.g. audit methodologies, 510(k) submission, validations) that are constantly refined and kept current across the ever changing regulatory environment

Involvement in regulation development – we stay ahead of policies by participating in the development of regulation (e.g. HACCP, Scientific Advisor to U.S. Congressmen)