This expert provides expert testimony in injury biomechanics for both plaintiff and defense cases associated with products liability, personal injury, premises liability, wrongful death and medical malpractice. He has qualified in court both as an engineering and a medical expert for cases involving motor vehicle accidents; slips, trips and falls; sports injuries, recreation and safety equipment; industrial injuries, ergonomics and repetitive stress syndromes; and medical malpractice.
He was director of the Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Maurice E. Mueller Professor of Biomechanics at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard/MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST). He received a Ph.D. at Northwestern University and spent post-doctoral years in Davos, Switzerland and Stockholm, Sweden. He taught at Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania before joining the faculties at Harvard Medical School and MIT. He was named to the Maurice E. Mueller Professorship of Biomechanics.
He has received a number of awards, most recently, the Borelli Award from the American Society of Biomechanics and the Bristol-Myers Squibb/Zimmer Institutional Grant for Excellence in Research Orthopaedic Treatment. He is the author of 185 peer-reviewed publications, 63 chapters, and 3 books. He is perhaps best known for his work on the role of falling in the etiology of hip fracture, work that served to revise the notion that hip fractures result primarily from age-related bone loss, or osteoporosis.
He served Oregon State University (OSU) as Vice Provost for Research. He continues to hold faculty appointments in Exercise and Sport Science and Mechanical Engineering at OSU and Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU).
PARTIAL CURRICULUM VITAE
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Injury biomechanics, accident reconstruction and failure analysis for litigation involving products liability, personal injury, wrongful death, premises liability and medical malpractice.
Court-qualified engineering and medical expertise for cases involving motor vehicle accidents; slips, trips and falls; sports injuries, recreation and safety equipment; industrial injuries, ergonomics and repetitive stress syndromes; and medical malpractice.
EDUCATION
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Biomedical Engineering) Northwestern University
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Surgery (Orthopaedics), Stanford University, .
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania,
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital, and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , .
Professor of Biomechanics, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital, and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, .
Maurice Edmond Mueller Professor of Biomechanics, Harvard Medical School.
Vice Provost for Research, Oregon State University,
Adjunct Professor of Exercise and Sports Science and Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University and Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Oregon Health Sciences University,
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Organizing Committee and Panel Member, NIH Consensus Development Conference on Total Hip Joint Replacement
Member, NIH Study Section, Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal
Chairperson, Injury Prevention Working Group of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Health Promotion and Aging
Member, NIH NIAMSD National Plan Task Force, Co-Chair Musculoskeletal Diseases Panel
Member, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeon's Council on Research
Member, CDC Injury Research Grant Review Committee Study Section
Co-Chairman, AAOS Workshop on Fall Prevention in the Elderly
Member, NIH Study Section, Orthopedics and Musculoskeletal
Participant, CDC Biomechanics Research Planning Workshop
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, National Osteoporosis Foundation
Acting Director, AO/ASIF Research Institute, Switzerland
Member, OREF Peer Review Committee
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