Interventional Pain Management & Anesthesiology Expert Witness

Expert Qualifications

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 15 years of experience as an anesthesiologist specializing in interventional pain management. Much of her work focuses on spine-related pain issues such as low back pain, neck pain, pain after failed spine surgeries, as well as opioids and the opioid epidemic. She received her BS in molecular and cell biology from UC Berkeley before earning her MD from Saba University in the Caribbean. She subsequently completed an internal medicine internship and anesthesiology residency at the University of Missouri before completing a quad-institution pain medicine fellowship program through Weill-Cornell New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Hospital for Special Surgery, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Columbia Medical Center. This expert is board-certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine. She is active in her field as a member of the International Spine Interventional Society, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. She has formerly served as an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Missouri, a pain management physician at Saint Luke's Hospital, and an interventional pain management physician at Mosaic Life Care. Currently, this expert serves as an interventional pain management physician for a Missouri health system.