Neuropharmacology Expert Witnesses

Merrill S. Wise, MD, is a  a Board-Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology with special qualifications in Child Neurology, and special qualifications in Sleep Medicine. Involved in the full-time practice of sleep medicine, Dr. Wise has evaluated and managed the full range of Sleep Disorders since 1991.

Dr. Wise evaluates children, adolescents, and adults with the full range of sleep problems and disorders. He is involved with supervision and interpretation of polysomnography (sleep studies), Multiple Sleep Latency Tests (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Tests (MWT), and integration of these findings with the clinical history in order to develop a diagnosis and treatment plan.

Because of the population served in Memphis, Dr. Wise evaluates a large number of pilots (FedEx world hub), air traffic controllers, commercial drivers and barge pilots, rail engineers, and shift workers. He is experienced in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), narcolepsy, and other disorders of excessive sleepiness, insomnia, circadian rhythm sleep disorders, restless legs syndrome, and parasomnias.

Litigation Support - Dr. Wise has reviewed a wide variety of cases involving both neurology and sleep medicine for greater than 20 years including report generation, testimony at deposition, and at trial. He has served on numerous national task forces and committees, as well as the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). These experiences have exposed him to the full range of sleep disorders, as well as healthcare systems, best practices and evidence-based standards of care, policies, and the legal aspects of sleep problems and disorders. 

Special Interest and Expertise:  

• Individuals with Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
• Downstream Effects of Sleepiness on
  • Cognitive Function
  • Driving
  • Safety
  • Work
  • Behavioral Regulation

Tracy L. Skaer, PharmD, FASHP, FASCP is a Professor Emeritus of Pharmacotherapy with over 30 years of pharmaceutical experience; 5 years as an expert witness. She is a licensed pharmacist in California, Idaho, and Washington. Dr. Skaer is a Fellow of the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, the American Society of Consultant Pharmacist, and a Member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacist's (ACCP) Pain and Palliative Care Practice and Research Network (PRN).

Dr. Skaer's research interests include chronic pain, comorbid mental illness in chronic disease, depression, anxiety disorders, insomnia, mindfulness, complementary and alternative medicine, and pharamcoeconomics and pharmacoepidemiology. Her research has been supported by over $3.2 million in grants from foundations and pharmaceutical industry.

Litigation Support - Dr. Skaer has completed several expert cases across the United States. Her services are available to attorneys representing plaintiff and defendant and include record review, written reports, deposition, and trial testimony. Dr. Skaer's cases involve:

View Dr. Skaer's Consulting Profile.

Mohan Nair, MD, trained at the University of California (Irvine) and Harvard and is board certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties in:

Dr. Nair brings his extensive training, clinical experience, and formal board certifications to provide in-depth and nuanced medico-legal analysis of cases for both adults and children involving brain injury, frequently and tragically combined with chronic pain and severe psychological trauma (PTSD). He is committed to comprehensive and accurate forensic examinations, quality neuropsychological assessment, and use of the most up to date technology available in the field. Litigation Support - Dr. Nair has provided extensive trial testimony in defense and plaintiffs cases. With cases primarily involving Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, he provides and coordinates medical, psychological, neuropsychological, toxicological, and imaging experts for complex civil litigation.

Dr. Nair is familiar with the milieu of the courtroom and its adversarial nature that can be intimidating for non-forensic scientists. He will provide timely and jargon free IME reports when needed and prepare for and withstand forceful cross examinations. He provides the full spectrum expert witness services for personal injury/civil litigation, criminal cases, private disability, medical board investigations, and employment litigation, including confidential consultations, record reviews, litigation support for IME, depositions, witness preparation, and trial testimony.

EDUCATION:

• 1970-75 Doctor of Medicine, University of Bombay
• 1981-83 Clinical Fellow in Child Psychiatry, Harvard University; McLean Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital
• 1978-81 University of California at Irvine: Residency in Psychiatry

LICENSES:

• Board Certified: Brain Injury Medicine, Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry, Clinical Psychopharmacology, Pain Medicine
• Board Certification: United Counsel for Neurologic Subspecialties, Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry
• American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology

Dr. Matthew Lee, MD, RPh, MS. is a Physician, Pharmacist, Pharmacologist and Toxicologist who also practices as an Expert Witness and Legal Strategy Consultant. Specific Benefits Include:

• Increased quality and integrity of written expert reports, based on an expanded knowledge base
• Time savings by only having to coordinate and discuss a case with one expert as opposed to two or more
• Since there is so much overlap between fields in the medical profession it is often hard to determine where one scope ends and another begins. This ambiguity is dramatically decreased , and scope increased by combining physician, pharmacist, and pharmacologist into one
• Communication skills of a pharmacist and experience dealing directly with the lay-public, in addition to the knowledge and background of a physician is extremely beneficial describing technical details to a jury
• Practicing in different realms within the healthcare field has allowed Dr. Lee to integrate the multiple facets giving him a unique and distinct perspective that no other expert has.

Case Experience Includes:

Prof. Vernon M. Neppe - Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute

• Internationally renowned
•  Neuropsychiatrist, Behavioral Neurologist, Psychopharmacologist, Psychiatrist, Forensic specialist (All listed in peer-selected book America's Top Doctors only MD in 5 sub-specialties/ specialties] and in all editions]. Also internationally recognized Epilepsy specialist, Consciousness researcher, Narcolepsy expert, Research Methodologist, head injury, trauma, and brain disorders specialist
• He is an experienced, extremely peer-respected clinician, and pioneering researcher (directly impacted millions.). 700+ publications, 10+ books (see listings brainvoyage.com) (includes How Attorneys Can Best Utilize Their Medical Expert Witnessin-demand communicator—professional speaker & media), creativity specialist (Distinguished Prof.,ECAO), incisive thinker (chess champion), and a versatile multi-specialty civil medicolegal expert (defense or plaintiff)
• Led 1st USA & International Delegation in Psychopharmacology and Neuropsychiatry. Expertise includes
• head injury, brain disturbances, personal injury,
• Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE),
• medications,
• seizures,
• malpractice,
• stress
• Nutrition supplements
• Tardive dyskinesia
• Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
• Vegetative / Minimal Consciousness states,
• Narcolepsy,
• Pharmaceutical Patents:
• Mental disorders,
• Suicide
• At times, he's consulted in several different areas in the same case e.g. medications, brain damage, psychiatry, movement disorders or seizures, depression, anxiety, bipolar, psychosis, attention deficit, Post-traumatic stress

Honors

• Best Doctors in America
• Who's Who in the World
• Whting Memorial Prize 2016,
• Ebook: How Attorneys Can Best Utilize Their Medical Expert Witness
• Prof. Neppe also has dual MD and PhD (Med) plus received Board Certifications UCNS Behav Neurology & Neuropsychiatry (2006) and ABPN (BC Psychiatry, subspec: Forensic Psych-04, Geriat Psych-11) & DPsM (with Neurol & Psychiatr)
• Fellow Royal Society, SA (?1st USA MD(2002), FFPsych(SA),
• Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association (2007)
• Additionally, MMed (Psych), DABFM, DABFE, DABPS (Psychopharm), FACFE, FCPsych, FRCPC-10. DSPE
• Dipl & SRF, ISPE;
• Civl expert and Competency (not Criminal) consults (Plaintiff or Defense) throughout USA , Canada & Internationally works only with attorneys-profound impacts as expert on the brain Cases include multimillion dollar verdicts for plaintiffs and millions saved for the defense. Services at all stages of civil litigation— record reviews, written reports, depositions, testimony, rebuttal, arbritration, advising retained throughout USA and internationally, and this includes high profile cases.analyses of strengths and weaknesses Dr Neppe's versatility & qualifications allow his use as single expert at multiple international levels —e.g. brain, psychiatry, neuropsychopharmacology, seizures, higher brain, research methodology, diagnosis saving time, money & without contradictions.