Neuropharmacology Expert Witnesses

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:

Chronic Pain Narcotic Use Opioid Pill Mills Illicit Substance Abuse Opioid Overdose Wrongful Death

Urine Drug Testing Medication-Related Suicide Medication Reactions and Interactions FDA Controlled Substances Act Opioid Prescribing Opioid Dispensing Regulations

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Dr. John P. Bederka, PhD, has over 30 years of experience as a Toxicologist with specialized knowledge of Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Neuropharmacology. Dr. Bederka served as Section Head of Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring for the Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine at the University of Illinois Medical Center. His practice covers Occupational Exposure, Residential Exposure, Adverse Health Effects, and Chemical Substances of Abuse.

Dr. Bederka is frequently called upon to provide Expert Testimony in Forensic Pathology and Toxicology in traffic accidents, medical malpractice, worker's compensation, and other diverse matters. As an independent contractor, Dr. Bederka has been retained for his services over 100 times in 25 states across the nation and Guam. Noted for his case-work on the Exxon Valdez matter, his recent work involves chemicals in Hydrofracking Fluids in Shale Gas extraction.

Areas of Expertise:

General Toxicology Prescription Drugs Alcohol Solvents / Vapors Metals Insecticides

Wood Preservatives Contaminants PCBs Chemical Spill Incidents Smoke Inhalation - Carbon Monoxide Asbestos

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

Brain Injury Medicine Psychiatry Child Psychiatry Forensic Psychiatry

Addiction Medicine Pain Medicine Psychopharmacology Behavioral Neurology / Neuropsychiatry

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

Justina E. Ogbuokiri, BSc, RPh, PharmD, FASCP, is currently an associate professor of Clinical Pharmacy at Xavier College of Pharmacy and the Consultant Clinical Pharmacist at the HIV Outpatient Clinic of the Medical Center of Louisiana in New Orleans. She has over 30 years of experience in her field of expertise.

Dr. Ogbuokiri serves as a researcher and consultant to the World Health Organization Tropical Diseases Research Programme in Onchocerciasis, a clinical pharmacy specialist and consultant to the HIV Outpatient Program, and Co-principal investigator to the National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center. She also offers technical support and consultant to the HIV / AIDS pharmaceutical industry and Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA) in the area of HIV / AIDS, mental disorders, and other co-morbidities.

Dr. Ogbuokiri has provided medication management services in HIV / AIDS to the HIV Outpatient Program (HOP) in New Orleans, with a patient load of 3,000-plus registered patients, the largest HIV ambulatory care clinic in the Southeastern Region of the United States. She has served as a reviewer to the Annals of Pharmacotherapy for over 2o years and technical consultant to the HIV / AIDS Bureau of the HRSA.

Litigation Support - Dr. Ogbuokiri offers technical defense and support for litigation and serves as an expert witness in major trials when necessary. She served as the expert witness for the Dow Breast Implant Case of 1997 where she offered technical advice on the role of the medications that the patient (clients) who had received the implants were prescribed. Her services are available to attorneys representing both Plaintiff and Defense.

Areas of Litigation Expertise:

Pharmacy / Medication Outcome Medication Personal Injury Medical Malpractice

Drugs in Pregnancy Drug Interactions HIV / AIDS Drugs

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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:

Criminal and Civil Cases Anaphylactic Reactions Overdosel Wrongful Death Cardiac Arrest Respiratory Arrest Fentanyl Overdose Dilaudid Overdose Pharmacist Mis-Fills Pharmacist Dispensing Errors

Pharmacy Standard of Care Medication Adverse Effects Falls Related to Medications (in and out of hospital) Toxicology/Toxic Reactions Medical Marijuana Positive Drug Screens in the Workplace Workplace Safety Fit for Duty Testing

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.