The successful conclusion of a medical liability case is dependent not only upon the skill of the attorney handling the case, but also upon the knowledge, insight, and presentation skills of the experts called upon by the attorney. Even a seemingly assured victory in the courtroom may be lost due to inadequate analysis of a case by the expert witness, or due to an expert's ineffective presentation to a jury of what would otherwise seem to be a very strong position. Dr. Leo has extensive experience as an expert witness, and provides in-depth and insightful analysis of cases ranging from the simple office or hospital internal medicine case, to the most complex and prolonged intensive care cases involving multiple organ systems and multiple disease processes. Jury feedback has consistently been that Dr. Leo provides testimony that is:

• clear,
• concise,
• comprehensible,
• credible, and
• compelling

Dr. Leo has been in the practice of Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine for 19 years. He is triple board-certified in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine. His unique qualifications, along with excellent public speaking skills and extensive experience as an expert witness, provide for tremendous credibility before juries.

Dr. Leo's dual practice in Critical Care and Internal Medicine qualifies him to evaluate and testify regarding a broad variety of cases, such as:

• Outpatient Internal Medicine
• Inpatient Internal Medicine
• Critical Care of "medical" patients (those who are critically ill due to severe infections, heart disease, lung disease, intestinal disorders, neurologic events, etc.)
• Critical Care of surgical patients (general surgery, trauma, neurosurgery, vascular surgery, orthopedic surgery, OB-GYN, etc.)
• Urgent Care
• Hospital Malpractice

Dr. Leo has had extensive experience over the last ten years as an expert witness, involving case review, deposition testimony, and trial testimony. He is able to provide an insightful and thorough analysis of cases ranging from the simplest outpatient cases to the most prolonged, complex hospital cases (some of which have spanned months of care). His qualifications, training, and experience allow him to analyze complex cases that might otherwise require several experts from different specialties to evaluate, thereby providing substantial cost and time savings for attorneys.

Service provided: Medical Expert Witness - Defense and Plaintiff

• Critical Care Medicine (the field of medicine involving patients with life and/or limb threatening illness or injury, generally requiring hospitalization in an Intensive Care Unit)
  Including:
• ICU management of patients with surgical disease
• Trauma
• Neurosurgical
• General Surgical
• Obstetric
• Vascular surgical, etc.
• ICU management of patients with non-surgical critical illness, including life-threatening infectious and septic shock
• pulmonary
• cardiovascular
• gastrointestinal
• renal
• neurologic
• multi-system organ dysfunction, etc.
• Internal Medicine (the field of medicine involving the diagnosis and treatment of non-surgical adult disease, as well as preventive medicine for adults)
  Including:
• Hypertension and hyperlipidemia
• Diabetes and other endocrine disorders
• Cardiovascular disease
• Pulmonary disease
• Gastrointestinal disease
• Infectious disorders
• Stroke and brain injury medical management
• Inpatient and outpatient practice
• Hospital Malpractice
• Standard of care for physician (including hospitalist), nursing, and ancillary provider practice for hospitals, including the ICU, regular floor, rehabilitation, and Skilled Nursing Facility patients.
• Urgent Care
• Diagnosis and management of acute and emergent problems presenting to urgent care centers
• Standard of Care
• Causation (including causation-in-fact and forseeability)
• Medical Damages