Dr. Julie Armstrong has more than 20 years of Nursing & Psychology experience in the Mental Health Field. She began her career as a Registered Nurse on the psychiatric units at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital. She retains her expertise and her certification as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and is an Expert Witness for the Board of Registered Nursing.

As a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Dr. Armstrong has conducted forensic evaluations since 1999. Specialty areas include the evaluation of injured workers for worker's compensation and civil claims, and allegations of emotional distress and trauma. She has expertise evaluating children and adolescents as well as adults. She is a content expert for the California Board of Psychologists.

Dr. Armstrong has also appeared on IDtv (Investigation Discovery television's) Wicked Attractions as a psychology expert and has served as a technical advisor to tv's CSI and been cited as an expert in several online and print publications.

Areas of Expertise:

Psychological Treatment and Malpractice

Expert Witness

Workers' Compensation

Employment Law

Sexual and Workplace Harassment

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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.

Rod O'Connor, C.P.O. has over 25 years experience with Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices. He is available for consulting, expert witness services, forensic work, case viability and second opinions. Mr. O'Connor is certified by the American Board for Certification in Orthotics & Prosthetics. He has expertise in all types of artificial limbs and orthopedic appliances (braces).

Preventive Psychiatry Associates Med Group - Our mission is to bring the highest quality of child, adolescent and adult psychiatric expertise to difficult civil litigation issues concerning children.

Practice Specialties - Nationwide forensic child psychiatry, evaluation and testimony in over 225 civil cases involving claims of institutional neglect, psychological trauma, loss of parental services, abuse, often with multiple victims.

Areas of Expertise:

Child Psychiatry

Forensic Psychiatry Evaluations, Reports and Testimony Concerning Psychological Issues such as Trauma

Institutional Negligence (schools, academies and residential treatment centers - particularly concerning allegations of abuse

Wrongful Death: Loss of Parental Services

Allegations of Child Abuse - whether individual or multiple children, family or institutional, we conduct objective evaluations or such complaints and assess the damages stemming from complaints we find confirmed by forensic studies

Mental Health in Disasters (earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, firestorms, tsunamis and wars

Children in Foster Care

Gilbert W. Kliman, M.D. - Harvard Medical School

Licensure and Board Certification

Fellow and Diplomat of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Distinguished Life Fellow

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Certified in Psychoanalysis for Adults, Children and Adolescents by the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute

Dr. Kliman won the International Literary Prize for Best Book concerning the Well Being and Nurture of Children, "Responsible Parenthood" and is the recipient of grants from over 50 private foundations and The National Institute of Mental Health.

His research interests include the Psychological Trauma and Treatment of Severely Disturbed Children and their families, in-classroom psychotherapy.

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