Surgery: Gynecological Surgery Expert Witnesses: 4

Elbridge F. Bills, MD, FACOG, is a board certified OB/GYN with over 20 years of clinical experience in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Dr. Bills is a graduate of Emory Medical School and received a Master's degree in Metabolic & Nutritional Medicine from the University of South Florida.

With a full-time practice caring for and managing low and high risk pregnancies and deliveries, Dr. Bills also has an active gynecological practice including hysteroscopic, laparoscopic, and robotic procedures. He is licensed in both Georgia and Florida.

Dr. Bills is Board Certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a member of the American Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Litigation Support - Dr. Bills offers expert witness services to attorneys representing plaintiff and defense. He is available for cases involving medical malpractice and other OB-GYN related injuries. His services include medical record review, thorough reporting, depositions, and trial testimony as needed.

Areas of Expertise:

Normal & High Risk Pregnancies Hysteroscopic Gynecology Laparoscopic Gynecology Reconstructive and Robotic Surgery

Gynecological Ultrasound Integrative Medicine Hormone Therapy Testosterone Therapy

Divya Chander, MD, PhD, is a board-certified Anesthesiologist with a Neuroscience PhD and extensive teaching experience. Dr. Chander trained at Harvard, UCSF, UCSD, and the Salk Institute. She is currently the Chair of Neuroscience and Faculty in Medicine at Singularity University. She is also a Visiting Scholar in the Stanford Department of Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, and was a member of the Stanford Anesthesiology Faculty for 8 years.

Litigation Support - Dr. Chander offers expert witness services to attorneys representing plaintiff and defense. Services include medical record review, thorough reporting, depositions, and trial testimony as needed.

Areas of Expertise:

Neurosurgical Anesthesia Obstetric Anesthesia General surgical Anesthesia

Awareness Under Anesthesia Difficult Airway Head and Neck / ENT Anesthesia

Background Information - Dr. Chander's postdoctoral training Stanford (Deisseroth/de Lecea Labs) allowed her to use light-activated ion channels inserted in DNA (optogenetics) to study sleep and consciousness switches in brains. In the operating room, she applies EEG technology to understand what human brains and the underlying networks look like when they lose and regain consciousness. Dr. Chander also has a precision medicine initiative focused on understanding genetic variability in responses to anesthetic drugs and brain oscillations. Her goal is to understand neural mechanisms of consciousness, as well as the evolution of human consciousness secondary to human augmentation.

Dr. Chander is working on devices that read and write the brain (brain mapping, neuromodulation) and link to brain machine interfaces for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

Dr. Chander also works in the field of space life sciences. A finalist for astronaut selection and an alumnus of the International Space University, she has performed remote simulations of trauma rescues, anesthesia and surgery in Mars analogue settings with physicians in the US, France, and the Concordia base in Antarctica. She has also been involved with a consortium that elaborated a road-map for studying the effect of microgravity and radiation on the nervous system, cardiovascular system, cognition and sleep.

View Dr. Divya Chander's Consulting Profile.

Alan R. Smith, MD, RPh, FAAFP, is Board Certified as a Family Medicine Physician (American Board of Family Medicine) plus Board Certified by the American Board of Physicians and Surgeons. Along with a full-time, full-spectrum Family Medicine Practice, Dr. Smith is the Medical Director of Millard Care and Rehabilitation, a position he has held for over 30 years. 

Dr. Smith also serves the State of Utah as Chairman of the Utah Physician Licensing Board (2018 - Currently), and is a Fellow of the Federation of State Medical Boards. 

Litigation Support - Dr. Smith is retained as an Expert Witness with a focus on Family Medicine and Nursing Home Medical Malpractice. He has over 20 years of expert witness experience with approximately 100 cases reviewed, 25 depositions, and 10 court / arbitration testimonies. 

"I feel a responsibility to hold my fellow physicians, as well as myself, to the standard of care. I likewise feel a responsibility to stand and defend the truth when care of a physician is in question." - Alan R. Smith, MD

Areas of Expertise:

Obstetrics Surgical Obstetrics Inpatient and Outpatient Care Home Health Skilled Nursing Care Extended Nursing Care

Long Term Care / Hospice Care Endoscopy, Colonoscopy, and EGD Minor Surgery - Vasectomy Major Surgery - Hernia Repair, Endometrial Ablation, Tonsillectomy, Tympanostomy Tubes Emergency Department Care

John L. Lovecchio, MD, has over 35 years of experience specializing in Gynecology and Oncology.  He is one of the nation’s top clinicians and researchers in the field of uterine and ovarian cancers.

Dr. Lovecchio is currently Professor Emeritus of Gynecologic Oncology and Gynecology at Hofstra University School of Medicine, NY, and Attending Physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY. 

Prior to that, for 20 years, Dr. Lovecchio served as Professor and Chief of Gynecologic Oncology and Gynecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at North Shore University Hospital-Long Island Jewish Medical Center (Northwell Health) while also working as an Investigator at the Center for Oncology & Cell Biology at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research.

Litigation Support - Dr. Lovecchio offers expert witness services to attorneys representing the plaintiff and defense, including medical record review, thorough reporting, depositions, and trial testimony as needed. He has been deposed and testified over 10 times since 2020.

Areas of Expertise:

Gynecologic Cancer Cervical Cancer Ovarian Cancer Uterine Cancer Vulvar Cancer Endometrial Cancer Fibroids

Pelvic Masses Biomarker Expression Patterns BRCA Gene Testing Chemotherapy / Radiation Therapy Interstitial Brachytherapy Pelvic MRI Diagnostic Techniques