Dr. Steven O. Lestrud has 25 years of experience in the field of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. He earned his BA from the University of Tennessee and his MD from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine. After completing his residency in Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina, he went on to complete a fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care and Pediatric Pulmonary at McGaw Medical Center. Today, this ...
Dr. Louis Guernsey Jr. has over 40 years of experience in the fields of Pediatrics and Pediatric Pulmonology. He earned his BA in Social and Behavioral Studies from Johns Hopkins University and his MD from Emory University School of Medicine. After completing his residency in Pediatrics at Emory University Hospital, he went on to complete a fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Today, this expert is board certified ...
This highly-qualified interventional pulmonology expert specializes in benign and malignant airway disease, including lung nodule management, pulmonary masses, endobronchial valves, endobronchial stents, and bronchoscopy. He earned his BS in biology and political science, as well as his MBA from Union College, before earning his MD from Albany Medical College. He subsequently completed an internal medicine residency and a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the ...
This qualified expert has nearly 10 years of experience in internal medicine. She received her BA in rhetoric and molecular/cell biology from UC Berkeley and earned her MD from the University of Chicago. She completed two residencies and two fellowships: an internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, a diagnostic radiology residency at Oregon Health and Science University, a pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at Vanderbilt University, and a ...
This qualified expert earned his BS in statistics from the University of Michigan and his MD at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine before going on to complete both an internship and residency in internal medicine at Boston Medical Center followed by a fellowship in pulmonary/critical care at Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in internal medicine and pulmonary disease and an active member of multiple professional societies including the American Thoracic ...
This expert is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, and critical care medicine. He received his BA in history from Dartmouth College before earning his MD from St. George’s University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and his fellowship in pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Currently, he is an attending physician in pulmonary ...
This highly-qualified expert has over 15 years of experience in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep disorders medicine. He earned his MBBS from the University of Nairobi in Kenya before moving to the United States to complete his residency in internal medicine at Northwestern University and two fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine: one in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep disorders medicine and the other in lung transplant medicine. This expert is triple ...
This expert has extensive experience in pulmonary, sleep, and critical care medicine. He received his BA from Middlebury College before earning his MD from Columbia University. He then also completed a medical Spanish program through the AEC Spanish Institute in Costa Rica and a clinical research education program through the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He completed an internship and residency in the department of medicine and a fellowship in the pulmonary, ...
This highly qualified pulmonary and critical care expert has over 30 years of experience in his field. He received his BA in biology from the University of Chicago and his MD from New York Medical College. After finishing his internship at Kaiser Hospital and his residency from George Washington University, this expert went on to complete a prestigious fellowship in pulmonology at the University of Illinois Medical Center. He holds board certifications in internal ...
This highly qualified expert earned her BS from UC Irvine and MD from Harvard. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care at UC San Diego. She is certified in Interventional Pulmonology, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Internal Medicine. She is an active member of several medical societies related to her focus in Pulmonary and Critical Care, and has published numerous journal articles and abstracts on the topic. She ...
This highly qualified expert earned her BSN from the University of Incarnate word, her MSN from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and a post-masters pediatric nurse practitioner certificate at the University of Cincinnati. She is also active in her field as a member of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and the American College of Chest Physicians. Formerly, she held roles as a pediatric intensive care unit staff nurse ...
There appears to be no slowing down for litigation surrounding JUUL, the electronic cigarette company named in a flurry of lawsuits in the past few years. Most recently, a derivate shareholder lawsuit was filed against Altria Group, a major investor…
Case Summary A 42-year-old male with a history of diverticulitis was referred to the emergency department by his family physician after complaining of coughing, shortness of breath, and an oxygen desaturation of 60%. Upon admission to the hospital, the patient…
Case Summary This case involves a 65-year-old male with a known history of pulmonary fibrosis. Due to the severity of his condition, he underwent a lung transplant and suffered intraoperative and postoperative complications due to an acute rejection reaction resulting…
Case Summary An adult male with a history of COPD, hypertension, tobacco use, and lung cancer scheduled a bronchoscopy due to pulmonary nodules. The pulmonary nodules were identified on a chest radiograph many years after his lung cancer remission. The…
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Toombs v. Acute Care Consultants, Inc. Citation: 2014 Ga. App. LEXIS 183 In this medical malpractice lawsuit, the plaintiff asserts the treating physician acted negligently in treating her husband. The…
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Lake Charles Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Carter v. United States Citation: 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 207565 Facts This case involved alleged negligent medical treatment given to the plaintiff,…
The patient went back to her pulmonologist for a followup appointment after completing the medication treatment and was told by her pulmonologist that she was recovered. However, the patient continued to be symptomatic and expressed concern about her symptoms. The…
This case involves a 43-year-old opera singer in New York with no previous medical history of asthma. The singer unknowingly moved to an apartment that was contaminated with mold and lived there for 15 months. As a result of living in this apartment, the singer began…
This case involves an obese 65-year-old male patient in Texas with a history of obstructive sleep apnea with CPAP treatment, COPD, and hypertension who underwent a hip replacement procedure at a surgical center. In advance of the procedure, the nursing staff…
This case involves a 75-year-old male patient who had two back surgeries for degenerative disease and was sent to a rehabilitation hospital. Given his immobility, the patient was placed on deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis and given a subcutaneous anticoagulant injection.…