ELITE MEDICAL EXPERTS works with attorneys to provide 100% Board-Certified physicians and surgeons practicing at the professorial level at the nation's leading universities. From Stanford to Yale, and from every medical and surgical specialty, ELITE secures fulltime practicing high-level experts from the nation’s most respected medical institutions. Each specialist is truly unique – a Board Certified professor with a dedicated clinical practice, extensive publications, and top-tier credentials from a major U.S. medical center. When an ELITE expert aligns with your case, you have a powerful voice – ready to testify – on your side.

ELITE offers:

• Immediate access to top-tier university physicians and surgeons.
• Cost-effective case analysis on a flat-fee basis.
• Panels of expert witnesses for complex cases.
• Independent Medical Examinations (IME) within a favorable radius of any location

To minimize expense, ELITE charges a single flat fee for the expert’s initial case review and oral opinion. If the case is non-meritorious, your firm's out-of-pocket expenses are capped. If the case moves forward, then all of our experts utilize standardized terms and fees. ELITE remains available to streamline communications, provide strategic support, and handle the details.  Experts are hand-selected within 14 days and will review records and offer independent opinions shortly thereafter.

Please visit our web site. You also are welcome to call us.  You'll speak directly with a physician and there is never a charge to discuss your case.

We welcome the opportunity to work with you on your next case.

Dr. Burton Bentley II, M.D., FAAEM
President, ELITE MEDICAL EXPERTS, LLC.

Areas of Expertise:

Anesthesiology Bariatric Surgery Cardiology Cardiothoracic Surgery Critical Care Dermatology Ears, nose & throat (Otolaryngology) Emergency Medicine Endocrinology Epidemiology Family Medicine Gastroenterology General Surgery Gerontology Gynecologic Oncology Gynecology Hand Surgery Hospital medicine (Hospitalist) Infectious Disease Intensive Care (ICU) Medicine Internal Medicine Interventional Radiology Laparoscopic Surgery Maternal Fetal Medicine

Neonatology Nephrology Neurology Neurosurgery Obstetrics Oncology Ophthalmology Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Orthodontics Orthopaedic Surgery Pathology Pediatrics Perinatology Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PMR) Podiatry Psychiatry Pulmonology Radiology Rheumatology Sports Medicine Toxicology Urology Vascular Surgery

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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Dr. Chris Coggins is a Board-Certified Toxicologist, a qualification he has held since 1986. He is a Principal in Carson Watts Consulting, with special expertise in Inhalation Toxicology, General Toxicology, Toxicological Pathology and Epidemiology.

Dr. Coggins' services include technical assistance in various aspects of Inhalation Toxicology, including Study Design, Exposure Methods, Study Monitoring, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, and Collation of such data into Reports and Publications in the peer-reviewed Scientific Literature. He provides similar services in the Disciplines of General Toxicology, Toxicologic Pathology, and Epidemiology. Dr. Coggins also provides Testimony as an Expert Board-Certified Witness in the Toxicology Disciplines.

Dr. Coggins has published extensively on the Toxicology of Tobacco Smoke. In addition to Publishing, he has also acted as a Reviewer for many Scientific Journals, including several of the journals in which Studies on Tobacco Toxicology are Published.

Dr. William Manion is a Pathologist by training and triple board certified in Anatomic, Clinical and Forensic Pathology. Dr. Manion currently is an assistant Medical Examiner in NewJersey. Dr. Manion is also a licensed attorney in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. With his training and background he can quickly evaluate potential Medical Malpractice Cases, especially involving Delay in Diagnosis or Failure to Diagnose.

Dr. Manion reviews legal cases involving Toxic Tort Litigation, Drug Overdose, Pain and Suffering or matters of a Criminal Nature such as Homicide, Suicide and Accidental Death. Dr. Manion also has experience in Asbestos Litigation, Vioxx and Hormonal Drug Litigation. He can evaluate Dram Shop Cases involving Blood Alcohol Levels where it is claimed that defendants were served alcohol while exhibiting signs of Intoxication. He has a network of experts which he works with in Surgery, Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and other specialties. He also evaluates the merits or defensibility of cases.

Dr. Manion can provide Letters of Merit for Medical Malpractice Cases and he works with both plaintiff and defense attorneys. He can also provide Letters of Explanation as an Expert Witness as to why he believes that there is no particular Merit to a Potential Case.

Forensic Analytical Sciences, Inc., is an independent, full-service criminalistics laboratory located in the San Francisco Bay Area (www.forensica.com/fasc) that serves both prosecutorial and defense agencies as well as insurance companies and investigators. Forensic Analytical Sciences, Inc. offers forensic services worldwide in:

• Crime Scene Investigation / Reconstruction
• Blood Stain Pattern Analysis
• Firearm and Tool Marks
• Fingerprints / Impression Evidence
• Forensic Biology / DNA
• Forensic Pathology
• Toxicology
• Blood Alcohol Analysis / DUI
• Questioned Document Examination
• Trace Evidence / Gunshot Residue Analysis

Few independent laboratories have the unique combination of personnel, experience, facilities, and equipment to provide the wide range and quality of services necessary to address comprehensive forensic issues encountered in complex casework.

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

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

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.

Carlos Torres, M.D. provides Expert Witness Services in the areas of Gastrointestinal Pathology, Liver Pathology, and Tumor (cancer) Pathology.

Dr. Torres is the current Director of Quality Assurance at Caris Life Sciences. He is an active participant in clinical research projects, the Medical Advisory Committee, and supports the pathology team through daily high-volume case sign-out, participating at the peer review consensus conference and providing numerous intradepartmental consults.

Dr. Torres was instrumental in helping start a rather unique model of GI subspecialty-focused anatomic pathology laboratory. Dr. Torres has spent the last ten years contributing to the success and growth of the operation, with the principle of providing the highest standards of patient care and service to GI clinicians.

Background:

Former Assistant Professor and Director, Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology: University of Texas Medical Center

Gastrointestinal Pathology Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Surgical Pathology Fellowship: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Anatomic Pathology Residency: Barnes Hospital/Washington University