Occupational Medicine Medical File Review Consultants

UCSF, Division of Occupational Medicine, SF, CA Clinical Professor

Assistant Professor University of South Florida Health, extensive USDOE experience, causation, impairment, toxicology, ABIME/CIME/DABQAURP, peer review, disability review, Fellow ACOEM, Fellow ABFE, WC, auto injuries.

Professor and Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, NEOUCOM 1989-2002. Founding Fellow and past-president AADEP. Author - Disability Evaluations (first and second editions). Numerous fellowships. Almost 100 publications. IME experience since 1984; practice currently 100% IMEs with some file reviews.

(Triple Residency Trained and Triple Board Certified) Diplomate, American Board of Preventive Medicine – Occupational Medicine Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine Diplomate, American Board of Preventive Medicine – Public Health/Preventive Medicine Visiting Clinical Associate Professor, University of Illinois Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, University of North Texas

Certified Medical Review Officer; previous reviewer for Office of Workers Compensation for US DOL; Certified Independent Medical Examiner2001-2011; Board certified in Emergency Medicine 1988-2011

Line Officer U.S. Navy 1961-1965. Mud Engineer in oil field 1965-1967.

Deep expertise in federal workers' compensation (FECA) system, including case management. Expertise in US military disability evaluation system. Volunteer teaching faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Maryland, and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS).

Specialized in occupational medicine and internal medicine with expertise in epidemiology and toxicology; Diplomate, American Board of Toxicology. We perform AMA Impairment ratings for multiple editions; and Medical Review of drug and alcohol testing. We are in active practice in all of the above areas.

Major contracts include: •Providing and supervising over 11,000 disability examinations per year; •Serving as the Associate Director at a national center dedicated to the evaluation of Veterans with Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS); •Serving as a Subject Matter Expert on environmental exposure concerns for the VA, which includes responding to inquiries, planning and delivering lectures and training programs for VA and non-VA clinicians nationwide, serving on national committees for and of the VA, DOD and Academia, and writing articles for both the the profesional and lay press.

Extensive experience in occupational and environmental medicine, independent medical reviews, disability and impairment evaluations, causation determinations, return-to-work determinations, Workers Compensation, chart reviews, and epidemiological research. Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology/Biostatistics at SUNY Albany School of Public Health. Author and editor of numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts and abstracts. Peer-reviewer for multiple journals. Clinical occupational and environmental medicine experience includes Workers Comp and disability examinations.

I am certified by the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners. I have performed thousands of file reviews in the areas of long and short term disability, auto/personal injury, group health and workers' compensation using nationally recognized evidence based guidelines.

Certified Medical Review Officer Medical Director, WOrknet of Oklahoma Medical Director, Employee Health Service-St JOhn Health System

Professor (with Tenure)- Drexel Univ. College of Medicine Board certified in Medical Toxicology Board certified in Occupational Medicine Board certified in Emergency Medicine Masters degree in Forensic Toxicology

Former Army Hospital Commander with additional certification in disability, impairment and utilization review and risk management.

American Board of Preventive Medicine Board Certification and Fellow with the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine