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JOEL L. GOLDBERG, MD, FACEP

Expert Witness

Phone:

(616) 446-1196

Email:

Areas of Expertise: 

Emergency Medicine

Urgent Care

Emergency Medical Services

Occupational Medicine

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Dr. Goldberg provides expert witness services for both plaintiff and defense cases and furnishes objective, comprehensive, and thorough review of medical facts and determines adherence to treatment standard of care, best practices, documentation, emergency patient management, quality review, and optimum clinical decision making.  His credible and clearly understandable assessment, opinions and testimony are the basis for building definitive strategies for his clients. 

DR. GOLDBERG PROVIDES THE FOLLOWING SERVICES:

Evaluation of case for merit

Medical chart review and analysis

Expert witness deposition

Analysis of opposing expert deposition and cross-examination

Expert witness testimony

Expert opinion on negligence, causation, failure to diagnose, delayed diagnosis and misdiagnosis

about

Dr. Goldberg is a Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Specialist with expertise in the fields of Emergency Medicine, Urgent Care, Occupational Medicine and Emergency Medical Services. He has over 23 years of experience as a practicing emergency physician in academic, urban, community and rural hospital departments, as well as teaching hospitals. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Homer Stryker School of Medicine in Kalamazoo, MI.  He has served as a Major in the United States Air Force and has experience in Air Medical Transport.

Dr. Goldberg has been a medical legal consultant for 6 years and handles both plaintiff and defense cases. He is qualified to address questions on medical malpractice, negligence, personal injury, and wrongful death. He provides credible and clearly understandable testimony that informs judges and jury on pertinent medical facts and science.

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE:

areas of expertise

Abdominal aortic aneurysm

Abdominal compartment syndrome

Abdominal pain/Abdominal trauma

Acute coronary syndrome

Aortic dissection

Appendicitis

Assault 

Asthma

Back injury

Blunt trauma

Cardiac arrest/CPR

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Carotid artery dissection

Cauda equina

Central cord syndrome

Central Line Complication

Cerebral venous thrombosis

Cerebrovascular accident (CVA)

Chest pain

Chest trauma

Chest tube complication

Chest tube placement

Cholecystitis

Compartment syndrome

COPD

Deep vein thrombosis

Dept. of Transportation Exams

Difficult airway

Difficult intubation

Diverticulitis

Electrocardiogram interpretation

EKG interpretation

Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) violations

Endocarditis

Endotracheal intubation

Epidural abscess

Esophageal perforation

Extremity trauma

Fracture care and stabilization

GI bleed

HCAP

Head trauma

Healthcare associated pneumonia

Heart attack

Hemorrhagic stroke

Infection

Intracranial hemorrhage

Ischemic bowel

Ischemic stroke

Lacerations

Lumbar puncture (LP)

Meningitis

Mesenteric ischemia

Mismanagement

Missed diagnosis

Missed fractures

MRSA

Myocardial infarction (MI)

Neck injury

Necrotizing fasciitis

Negligence

Occupational health

Occupational injury

Open fracture

Opioid overdose

Osteomyelitis

Overdose

Pancreatitis

Perforated ulcer

PE

Peripheral vascular disease/ischemia

Pneumonia

Pneumothorax

Post-operative complications

Posterior circulation stroke

Pressure injury/ulcer

Pulmonary embolism (PE)

Pyelonephritis

Pulmonary embolism

Retained foreign bodies

Retroperitoneal hemorrhage

Sepsis

Septic shock

Shock

Simple pneumothorax

Small Bowel obstruction

Spinal cord injury

Spinal cord trauma/fracture

Spinal epidural abscess

Spine fracture

Standard of Care

Spine injury

STEMI

Stroke

Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Surgical complications

Syncope

Tendon injuries

Tension pneumothorax

Testicular torsion

Thoracic aortic aneurysm

Thrombotic thrombocytopenia pupura (TTP)

Tissue plasminogen activator

TPA

Trauma

Traumatic injury

Tube thoracostomy

Wound complication

Urosepsis

Urgent care

EDUCATION

education

Emergency Medicine Resident, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Cleveland, OH

Doctor of Medicine, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

Master of Arts, University of California, Los Angeles,  Biology

Bachelor of Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Biology

professional experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Current Professional Positions

Lab Director and Medical Director, Grifols Biomat Plasma Center, Kalamazoo, MI

Physician Clinical Reviewer, Evolent Health

Physician, ProHealth Occupational Medicine 

Attending Physician, Bronson Healthcare Hospitals

Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, WMU, Homer Stryker School of Medicine

Resident Teaching Experience

Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, MI

Wilford Hall, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX

MILITARY SERVICE

Major and Unit Commander, United States Air Force, Operation Noble Eagle, Lackland AFB

Captain, United States Air Force Reserves, Flight Surgeon, Youngstown AFB

National Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal 

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CERTIFICATIONS

  • American Board of Emergency Medicine, Diplomat #990311. Board Certified

  • Licensures: Indiana, Michigan, California and Arkansas.

  • Fellow of American College of Emergency Physicians, member Michigan State Medical Society.

  • National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners

PUBLICATIONS

“Common Parasitic Infections (2001).” In Just the Facts in Emergency Medicine. Editors Cline, D.M. and Ma, O.J. McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 294-297.

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