This expert holds a Doctor of Medicine degree and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. A transplant surgeon with more than 25 years of medical experience, this expert specializes in organ transplantation and transplant surgery. Clinical experience includes kidney transplantation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, pancreas transplantation, and pancreas islet cell transplantation, including procedures involving ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation. Additional areas of expertise include transplant immunology, immunosuppressive therapy management, and pancreas islet cell bioengineering.

This expert has 15 years of expert witness experience, providing litigation consultation, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony in matters involving transplant surgery and transplant patient care. Professional experience includes leadership roles within transplant surgery programs and hospital clinical operations, including Chief of the Division of Transplantation, Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Surgical Director of a transplant center, Director of Clinical Research within a transplant division, and Medical Director of Advisory Services and Physician Advisor responsible for clinical oversight and advisory services.

Academic work includes appointments as a clinical professor and surgical faculty member supporting physician education, transplant surgery training, and transplant program development. Research activities include studies addressing renal transplantation outcomes, immunosuppressive treatment strategies, transplant donor management, and long-term transplant recipient outcomes. This expert is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, with professional memberships including the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Association for Academic Surgery, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Pacific Coast Surgical Association, Wilderness Medical Society, and the International Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association.