Traumatic Brain Injuries: Selecting the Right Experts to Demonstrate, Dispute the Existence and Extent of Damage
Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Specialties, Credentialing and Demeanor, Establishing Bias, Addressing Overreaching
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE course will offer advanced guidance to personal injury attorneys proving or challenging the existence and extent of injury in traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases. The panel will explore what types of experts should be engaged, what to look for in credentialing and demeanor, and strategies for establishing bias, overreaching, or even incompetence in opposing experts.
Outline
- Defining TBI
- Causation and mechanism
- Selecting the right TBI experts for the case
- Supporting and challenging imaging
- Traditional imaging
- CT
- MRI
- DTI
- Traditional imaging
- Supporting and challenging behavioral testing
- Supporting and challenging biomarker testing
- Cross-examination strategies
- Recording examinations
Benefits
The panel will review these and other pivotal questions:
- How should attorneys for both sides evaluate causation?
- Should every TBI plaintiff undergo neuropsychological testing?
- What are the best strategies to present evidence of cognitive or behavioral dysfunction?
Faculty
Dr. Matthew J. DeGaetano
Program Director and Founder
Personal Injury Institute & Axon Medical Centers
Licensed as a chiropractor, Dr. DeGaetano has worked with medical doctors, chiropractors and law firms all over the... | Read More
Licensed as a chiropractor, Dr. DeGaetano has worked with medical doctors, chiropractors and law firms all over the United States to help professionals work together across disciplinary lines. His areas of expertise include whiplash and brain trauma, the biomechanics of spine trauma, soft tissue injury and repair, pain and proprioceptive neurology, and the management of spine and spine-related disorders.
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Olivia K. Leary
Attorney
Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver
Ms. Leary is an associate in the Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC (“RLS”) Personal Injury and... | Read More
Ms. Leary is an associate in the Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC (“RLS”) Personal Injury and Workers’ Compensation Groups. She represents people who have suffered serious injury as a result of negligence, including personal injury actions, intentional torts and whistleblower actions. Ms. Leary earned her B.A. in political theory from the University of San Francisco, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She earned her J.D. from the University of California at Davis, and was a recipient of the Dean’s Merit Scholarship.
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Eustace de Saint Phalle
Principal
Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver
Mr. de Saint Phalle has established himself as one of California’s top personal injury trial lawyers, having... | Read More
Mr. de Saint Phalle has established himself as one of California’s top personal injury trial lawyers, having personally litigated multiple cases to settlement, verdict, or judgment with awards in excess of $1,000,000 and as high as $25,000,000. For the last fifteen years, he has been running a trial team dedicated to the representation of injured individuals in California which has handled matters specializing in civil litigation that involve complicated medical issues and disabilities. Mr. de Saint Phalle is an accomplished civil litigator in a variety of areas, including industrial accidents, product liability, exceptions to workers’ compensation, premises liability, professional malpractice, auto, bicycle and boating accidents, as well as business disputes.
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Dr. Kevin P. Rosenblatt, MD, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
Brazos Neuroscience
Dr. Kevin Rosenblatt is the Chief Scientific Officer and Lab Director at Brazos Pathology, LLP. He has more than 30... | Read More
Dr. Kevin Rosenblatt is the Chief Scientific Officer and Lab Director at Brazos Pathology, LLP. He has more than 30 years of clinical and biomedical research and development experience in multiple settings, including academia, biotech, startups, and clinical practice. Dr. Rosenblatt has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on cancer, neuronal biology, biomarker development, and clinical genomics and proteomics, and he gives lectures at various national and international meetings in these areas. After completing his training in the combined MD-PhD program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, he completed his residency in pathology and a research fellowship in cancer signaling and predictive biomarkers at the National Cancer Institute/FDA. Dr. Rosenblatt served as Director of the Center for Clinical Proteomics at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine and as the Director of the Clinical and Translational Proteomics Service Center at the UT Health Science Center. He was Associate Professor in the Division of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine at UT Health and the McGovern Medical School and Associate, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Health Professions at the MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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Dr. Safa Rubaye, MD, MBChB
Psychiatrist, Co-Founder
Mendala PolyTrauma Clinic
Dr. Rubaye is an experienced Psychiatrist and entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the mental... | Read More
Dr. Rubaye is an experienced Psychiatrist and entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the mental health care industry. He is skilled in rTMS, Katamine/ Esketamine Treatment, Zulresso (brexanolone) Infusion, Clinical Research, Medical Education, fMRI, and Neuropsychiatry. Mr. Rubaye is currently licensed in TX, CA, CT, OH, HI, NY, and NJ.
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