With 22 years of experience in chiropractic practice, this expert witness specializes in whiplash-associated disorders, mild traumatic brain injury, soft tissue trauma, injury causation, biomechanics, accident reconstruction, functional capacity evaluation, and disability analysis. The expert has been qualified and has provided testimony regarding injury causation, occupant kinematics, mechanism of injury, human factors, accident reconstruction, chiropractic and medical care, prognosis and future medical care, functional capacity evaluations, vocational rehabilitation, impairment and permanent disability, medical records, reasonableness of care, and standard-of-care issues.

Professional credentials include Qualified Medical Examiner/Agreed Medical Examiner, Certified Functional Capacity Evaluator, Blankenship WorkEval/FCE Certification, Certified Traffic Accident Reconstructionist, Certified Low Speed Rear Impact Automobile Crash Reconstructionist, Certified Industrial Disability Evaluator, Certified Chiropractic Extremity Practitioner, Human Factors Engineering certification, and advanced certification in impairment and disability rating. Additional distinctions include Diplomate status with the Academy of Integrative Pain Management and fellowship with the American Board of Vocational Experts, American Board of Disability Analysts, and Academy of Forensic and Industrial Chiropractic Consultants. Educational attainment includes a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Doctor of Chiropractic degree.

A substantial portion of the expert’s technical background is devoted to evidence-based functional capacity evaluation, crash-related biomechanics, and injury causation. Postdoctoral training includes 411 hours in injury causation, biomechanics, occupant kinematics, and human factors; 472 hours in accident reconstruction, accident investigation, crash testing, and vehicle inspection; and 513 hours in disability, impairment, functional capacity evaluation, QME, and industrial injury assessment. The expert also participated in 75 live vehicle impacts involving instrumented vehicles, crash dummies, and human subjects, with responsibilities that included pre- and post-crash occupant and vehicle examination, velocity measurement, force analysis, property-damage assessment, and evaluation of collision-related injury mechanisms.

Professional involvement includes the American Society of Biomechanics, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, American Board of Vocational Experts, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, California Association of Accident Reconstruction Specialists, International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals, and California Chiropractic Association. Prior leadership includes board service with the American Board of Vocational Experts and participation on the Brain Injury Association of California’s Education and Planning Committee. This combination of chiropractic practice, biomechanical analysis, crash reconstruction, functional capacity testing, impairment evaluation, and medico-legal testimony supports assessment of injury causation, work capacity, permanent disability, prognosis, and related forensic issues.