Experience

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  Comprehensive Pediatrics

  • Physician Consultant-Chart Reviews, Preauthorization Reviews, Utilization, and Medical Necessity Rev

    • Nov 2000 - Present

    My responsibilities are to opine and give written or oral opinions on the following:Physician Consultant-Medical articles and/or Medical Reviews and Scientific Articles and/or Scientific reviews; Pre-Authorization Reviews, Utilization, and Medical Necessity Reviews; and confidential Medico-legal Analyses. Curriculum Vitae is available up request.

  • Physician

    • Nov 2000 - Jan 2014

    I retired from pediatric practice in 2014. However, I was a board certified pediatrician practicing pediatrics from 2000-2014 and had admitting and staff privileges at 5 hospitals as well. I followed and covered NICUs, Special Care Nurseries, Normal Newborn Nurseries, ICUs, and general pediatric patients on general pediatric wards. I also took overnight patient call for pediatric emergencies. I also had a nurse practitioner with me during this time and we treated up to 3000 patients in our practice during this time period. Moreover, because of my academic career (MD PhD-see attached Curriculum Vitae), I was qualified, recruited and very able to be an expert speaker on 5 different types of pharmaceutical medications as produced by 8 different pharmaceutical companies, and was a plaintiff's expert witness for over 2 dozen plaintiff's clients on the effects of lead on the expression of ADHD, I also had extra training and expertise in ADHD, Neuropsychiatric Disorders, and Asthma, and as a result treated approximately 400 asthmatics in my practice and 600 ADHD patients, and those with other neuropsychiatric disorders in my practice as well as over 2000 patients in general pediatrics from birth to age 21. I have been an expert witness for 2 law firms analyzing over 2 dozen cases resulting in total judgments of almost $400 million dollars over a period of 7 years in St. Louis.

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  BJC HealthCare

  • St. Louis MO and Arnold MO

  • Physician

    • Sep 1996 - Oct 2000
    • St. Louis MO and Arnold MO

    I was a board certified pediatrician at BJC Medical Group in an outpatient setting from September, 1996 until its closure in October, 2000. I saw patients in their outpatient facility and was on staff with admitting privileges a and saw patients at 5 local hospitals: and followed NICU, special care nursery, normal newborn, general pediatric patients at these hospitals. I had about 2000 pediatric patients within the BJC Medical Group Practice. I also rotated on overnight patient call for pediatric emergencies. I developed a large subgroup of ADHD and Asthmatic patients within the group which would significantly grow when I moved and received extra training in these fields as a private practitioner at Comprehensive Pediatrics.

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  Washington University School of Medicine; Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology

  • St. Louis MO

  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology

    • Jul 1990 - Aug 1996
    • St. Louis MO

    I was an academic pediatric gastroenterologist and pediatrician in the departments of pediatrics and pediatric gastroenterology from 1990 to 1996. I was a clinical attending in pediatric gastroenterology and a basic science/medical researcher as well. During this time period I was awarded an NIH Clinical Investigator Award and an independent NIH R-01 grant on the characterization of the rat liver bile acid transport protein. As per the grant we successfully identified its DNA sequence; successfully tested its function as a result of various biological and environmental conditions; expressed and identified it as an ecto-ATPase as well in tissue culture. We also characterized its regulation by cellular substrates and metabolites. Finally, we were able to verify its duel function on the external surface of the hepato-cellular cannalicular membrane, which faces into cannalicular lumen.