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Ms. Elizabeth D'Alesio has 30 years experience in ICU, including Medical, Surgical and Acute Care. She is ICU certified. She has managed the ICU and telemetry floor which includes bed monitoring. Ms. D'Alesio has also been involved with creating policy/procedure to meet JACHO requirements as well as ongoing recruiting of new ICU staff. She has served on the ethics committee for four years while in management.

Ms. D'Alesio is currently employed at the Reproductive Science Center of Milford and Milford Regional Medical Center where she administers Conscious Sedation, assists physicians with pacemakers, arteriograms and picc lines for septic

Healthcare Litigation Support is a team of experts - physicians, healthcare administrators, reimbursement specialists, health organization experts, health insurance experts, and other healthcare personnel - with broad, extensive experience and expertise in medical and administrative malpractice issues, physician practice operations, hospital management, health insurance and TPA issues, Medicare and Medicaid, medical billing and collections, fraud and abuse, managed care and other areas.

Healthcare Litigation Support is a team of experienced healthcare experts who consult on litigation issues and testify as needed. In addition to the four Principals, there is a larger group of Associates, individuals with specific expertise and areas of knowledge, we include in order to fully serve the needs of the legal community.

Areas of Expertise:

Audit Medical Standards of Care Dental Standards of Care Geriatrics and Nursing Home Care Standards Long Term Care Standards Health Insurance Health Insurer-Provider Relations Managed Healthcare (HMO, PPO)

TPA (Third Party Administrator National Accreditation Guidelines Medicare / Medicaid Federal Employees Health Benefits Program CDH (Consumer Driven Health Plans) ERISA, COBRA, EMTALA, HIPAA Physician / Hospital Joint Ventures Qui Tam and False Claims Act

Representing Both Plaintiff and Defense, Our Services Include:

Review Case for Merit

Analyze Medical and Administrative Events

Identify Causation

Address Standards of Care

Research Relevant Literature

Interpret Contracts in Light of Industry Standards

Evaluate Case Strengths and Weaknesses

Develop Deposition Strategy

Prepare a Defensible Report

Articulate Complex Issues to Triers of Fact

Expert Witness: Retained in Washington, D.C., and ten states as an expert in hospital administration who could render opinion after assessing medical records, hospital policies and procedures, medical staff bylaws and regulations, JCAHO standards, depositions, etc. Served as Expert Witness for Plaintiff and Defense.

Consultant: Has assisted hospitals and health systems with accelerating their performance improvement efforts. Speaks, writes and consults on ethical issues in health care.

Background Highlights:

Consultant, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of health system.

Executive Director of two academic medical centers: Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, Stanford University Hospital and Clinics at Stanford.

Past chairman of the national advisory board for the University of Chicago’s Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.

A variety of appointments with the American Hospital Association, including chairman of both the Council on Research and Development and the Special Committee on Biomedical Ethics.

An author of over 125 publications, he has written articles for USA Today, Health Management Quarterly, Trustee, Health Progress, the Journal of Health Administration Education, Frontiers of Health Services Management, Bioethics Forum, Modern Healthcare, the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Stanford Medicine, and Healthcare Executive among others.

Co-editor of Management Mistakes in Healthcare: Identification, Correction and Prevention, published by Cambridge University Press in 2005.

Co-editor of Managing Ethically: An Executive's Guide, published by Health Administration Press in 2001.

A fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, a past member of its Leadership Advisory Committee, and has served as the College's consultant on health care management ethics since 1994.

Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Ethics.

Faculty appointments held at Harvard, UCLA, Stanford, Emory, the University of California, and Seton Hall University.

Bachelor of Science, Master of Public Health, and Doctor of Public Health degrees are from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Dr. Jimmy Y. Chung, MD, FACS, CHCQM, is certified as a Surgeon by the American Board of Surgery, and in Health Care Quality and Management by the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians. Dr. Chung is also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a founder of Surgical Associates of Monterey Bay and Vein Clinic of Monterey Bay.

Clinical Specialties include general, laparoscopic, thoracic, complex cancer surgery, and vascular surgery, including varicose vein treatment, with special emphasis on minimally invasive techniques for anti-reflux, gall bladder and breast surgery, endocrine surgery, and complex gastrointestinal cases.

Non-Clinical Specialties include Physician Leadership, Medical Staff Bylaws and Self-Governance, Physician Credentialing, Peer Review, Medical Records Review, Healthcare Legislation, Joint Commission Compliance, Organized Medicine, and Quality and Core Measures.

Professional Associations:

• Diplomate, American Board of Surgery
• American College of Surgeons
• American Medical Association
• California Medical Association, Board of Trustees
• Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
• American Hernia Society
• American College of Phlebology

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Dr. John Shershow is a nationally known expert in all aspects of Hospital and Clinic Administration. In his nearly 20 years of experience as a Senior Hospital Executive and Healthcare Consultant, Dr. Shershow has surveyed or consulted to hundreds of hospitals, both as an accreditation surveyor for JCAHO and as a private consultant for hospitals nationwide.

Dr. Shershow has been Medical Director of two prestigious hospitals and an Associate Dean of a nationally known medical school. He is Board Certified and was educated at Harvard, Yale and the University of Southern California.

Areas Of Expertise Include:

Hospital Administration Staffing Quality of Care JCAHO Accreditation Medical Quality Assessment and Review Medical Staff Affairs Hospital And Ambulatory Standards of Care

Patient Rights Health Care Risk Management Medical Quality Assurance Administrative Medicine Peer Review JCAHO Standards Physician Credentialing & Privileging

Reed Tinsley, CPA has provided consulting services to physicians and physician related entities and their legal counsel for more than 20 years. A sampling of his services to physicians include all aspects of physician practice management and economics, managed care contract review / negotiation, profit growth strategies, strategic planning, practice merger facilitation, physician contract reviews, physician buy-ins/buy-outs, regulatory compliance, and litigation support.

Mr. Tinsley's litigation support specific services have included billing and collection reviews, medical practice or healthcare entity business valuation, lost profits analysis, covenant not to compete valuation, wrongful termination damage analysis, and overhead allocation reviews. He has also been engaged as a court appointed Special Master and Receiver.

Areas of Expertise:

Practice and Healthcare Entity Valuation

Economic, Financial and Statistical Analysis Expert Witness

Physician Economic Disputes

Billing, Collection, Accounts Receivable Reviews

Managed Care Contract Reviews

Office Sharing and Physician Compensation Overhead Allocations

Physician Contract Disputes

Lost Profits and other Damage Analysis / Calculations

Physician Regulatory Compliance

Reed Tinsley is a Houston-based CPA, Certified Valuation Analyst, and healthcare consultant. His entire practice is devoted to providing tax, accounting, and healthcare consulting services to physicians and their attorneys. Reed has published numerous articles in national and regional publications and is frequently asked to speak on a variety of health care topics, including capitation, revenue enhancement, and integration strategies. His articles have been published in the Journal of Medical Practice Management, MGMA Journal, Hospital Physician, Texas Medicine Family Practice Journal, and Group Practice Journal. Mr. Tinsley also serves on the Editorial Panel of Consultants for the publication Managed Care Contract Negotiator.

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Dr. Samuel H. Steinberg, MBA, PhD, FACHE is a Board Certified Hospital Administrator with over 35 years of experience, including 10 years as a hospital chief executive officer. Dr. Steinberg assists both defense and plaintiff attorneys in medical malpractice matters by focusing on the hospital's corporate responsibilities, physician credentialing, JCAHO accreditation, administrative compliance, risk management, and hospital policies & procedures.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He is also the author of The Physicians Survival Guide for the Hospital.

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