Oregon Hunter, MD is Board Certified in: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (ABMS), Electrodiagnostic Medicine (non ABMS), Quality Assurance/Utilization Review (non ABMS), Forensic Examination (non ABMS), and Pain Management (non ABMS).
He has been in practice in Florida since 1987 and maintains an office in Ocala, Florida. He is licensed to practice medicine in Florida, Hawaii, and California. In Hawaii, he was the medical director of the brain injury and chronic pain programs.
He is a member and past president of the Florida Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and a member of both the Florida Association of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Florida Academy of Pain Medicine.
He is a co-author of the Florida Impairment Rating Guide and he received the Physician of the Year Award in 1992 from the National Association of Rehabilitation Providers in the Private Sector. He is on the teaching staff of the National Association of Disability Evaluation Professionals.
His special interests are in impairment and disability evaluation, occupational neuromusculoskeletal medicine, electrodiagnostic medicine, and cervical spine injuries. He has spoken extensively and internationally on these topics. and has taught the 5 hour physician certification course for Florida workers compensation providers.
He has published papers on impairment rating and given oral presentations on impairment & disability and EMGs and litigation in Japan, Cuba, and India. Other contributions are to the on-line medical textbook at www.emedicine.com.
He is on the staff at the University of Florida, Shands Hospital, Department of Orthopedics as well as four other hospitals in Gainesville and Ocala, Florida.
He maintains an impairment rating website at www.permanentimpairment.com.
Harold J. Bursztajn, MD has over twenty-five years of service as a distinguished patient care-focused clinician and as senior clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School. Among his many distinctions in being recognized as a practicing "doctor's doctor" is being named the first physician/forensic psychiatrist in Harvard Medical School's history to be the representative of the Harvard Medical School Alumni Board of Directors to the Harvard University Alumni Board. He continues to be active in patient care, forensic consultation, and judicial education. Among the many clinical honors bestowed by Dr. Bursztajn's patients and colleagues nationwide is his being recently named to the "Best Doctors in America" list.
He is co-Director of the Program in Psychiatry & the Law and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and author of the highly acclaimed book Medical Choices, Medical Chances. This classic book has been reviewed favorably in leading medical journals ranging from the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association to the Journal of the American Psychiatric Association. Among his other leading contributions to medical and mental health education are two books Divided Staffs, Divided Selves, a Case Approach to Mental Health Ethics and Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law, as well as, numerous articles in medicine, psychiatry, forensic neuropsychiatry and clinical ethics.
Dr. Bursztajn consults clinically and forensically, provides second opinions in patient care, teaches medical students and conducts continuing medical education courses for professionals; and advises institutions, the courts, and public health-oriented media on forensic psychiatry and clinical ethics related issues. He serves as a peer reviewer expert for leading medical and psychiatric journals, non-profit medical and ethics review organizations, health care and human services corporations and the judiciary. His numerous awards and honors in the course of twenty-five years of service as a Harvard Medical School clinical faculty member range from the Solomon Faculty Research Prize to his being named as one of only fifty Principal Clinical Mentors for Harvard Medical School entering class.
Arun Phophalia, M.B.,B.S. MS is a General Surgeon and registered at Rajasthan medical council and Indian medical council. He was awarded and has completed a one year post-doctoral fellowship in Paris in traumatology and sports medicine by the French government.
He has been in practice in Jaipur (Rajasthan state), India since 1988. He runs a 25 bed hospital which has state of art facilities in General and Laparoscopic surgery and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. This hospital is recognized for internship training of physical therapists.
He is a life member of Association of Surgeons of India, Indian Medical Association, Indian Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Medical Practitioners Society.
He is an author and editor for Exam Master Corporation, Delaware for General Surgery Certification Exam (ABS) and medical subjects review.
His special interests are in minimal access surgery and sports medicine. He has published papers on sports medicine and his articles are published regularly in news-papers and magazines.
He is teaching staff at Rajasthan M. P. K. Medical College and Hospital, Department of Surgery and consultant at four other hospitals in Jaipur.
He knows English, Hindi and French languages. He is working on a project to see effect of yogic exercises in neurological rehabilitation.
Diploma in sports medicine
Diploma in neurological rehabilitation
Courses targeted to develop extensive clinical skills and practical training with modern teaching methodology in state of art setting and extensive curriculum.
Nalini Hospital, Rehabilitation and Research Center
Nulite Colony,
Jaipur Dairy Overbridge,
Jaipur 302018.
Phones:91-141-2553131
91-141-2551988
91-9828019900
DAVID BALL, President of JuryWatch, Inc., is a nationally known trial consultant, communications expert, and best-selling author who specializes in focus groups, case analysis and presentation, advocacy skills, damages strategies, and jury selection.
Dr. Ball is best known for his insight into methods of explaining difficult cases, identifying and dealing with case weaknesses, turning case problems into strengths, and B particularly B damages strategies. He is also regarded as a national authority on focus-group techniques.
Dr. Ball teaches trial advocacy to lawyers coast to coast. He also has taught law students at Duke, North Carolina, Wake Forest, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, and at Campbell University as Adjunct Professor of Law. A frequent teacher for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy at Notre Dame, the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, and ATLA's National College of Advocacy, Dr. Ball received the 2002 Charles Becton Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy. He is also a member of the American Society of Trial Consultants, where he has served on its Professional Standards, Nominating, and Awards committees.
Dr. Ball is a noted pioneer in adapting methods of film and theater presentation for use in trial. He comes to jury and trial consulting from a career as a widely recognized director, playwright, and producer. His credits include Broadway and off-Broadway, major regional theaters, and television and film. He was Literary Director at Minneapolis's Guthrie Theater; Professor of Drama and Director of Graduate Playwriting at Carnegie-Mellon University; and Senior Artist-in-Residence, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Chair of Drama at Duke University, creating that department's nationally-famous "golden era" of the 1980's. His theater students now work in every area of theater, film and TV, and have won Oscars, Obies, Emmies, and Tony awards.
Dr. Ball works on a wide range of civil and criminal cases across the country. He wrote the National Institute for Trial Advocacy's best-selling Theater Tips & Strategies for Jury Trials, as well as its How to Do Your own Focus Groups (book and video), and the groundbreaking, best-selling David Ball on Damages and its widely heralded second edition on prevailing in the age of tort-reform.
Dr. Michael Freeman is a Forensic Trauma Epidemiologist, and serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, where he teaches a course in injury and trauma epidemiology. Additionally, Dr. Freeman is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Forensic Medicine at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark. He holds a Ph.D. in trauma epidemiology along with a Masters of Public Health degree in biostatistics and epidemiology from Oregon State University. Dr. Freeman has written and presented widely regarding motor vehicle crash injuries and forensic issues, as well as other traumatic injuries. Dr. Freeman is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Whiplash and Related Disorders from Haworth Medical Press, the only peer-reviewed journal devoted to whiplash injuries, and is also the co-chair of the International Whiplash Trauma Congress.
Dr. Freeman is also trained in crash reconstruction and occupant dynamics, as well as medicolegal death investigation. He is a fully accredited crash reconstructionist with the Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction (ACTAR). He serves as a a Consultant Trauma Epidemiologist to the Medical Examiner Division, Oregon State Police, analyzing fatal collisions and the resulting injuries.
Dr. Freeman has provided forensic testimony or evaluation hundreds of times throughout the United States in District and Federal Courts, as well as in Canada and Australia and Scandinavia.
His CV is available upon request.
MEDICAL CURRICULUM VITAE
B.A. Degree, University of Calif., Berkeley, 1943
M.D. Degree, University of Calif. Medical School, San Francisco, June 1945
Teaching Assistant, Division of Anatomy, University of Calif. Medical School, February 1 - June 30, 1945
Internship, Mt. Zion Hospital, San Francisco, July 1, 1945 -March 30, 1946
Medical Officer, U.S. Army, May 1946 - March 1948
Teaching Assistant, Division of Anatomy, University of Calif., Berkeley, February 1 - June 30, 1948
Resident Fellow in Pathology, University of Calif. Hospital, July 1, 1948 - June 30, 1949
Resident in General Surgery, V.A. Hospital, Van Nuys, Calif., July 1, 1949 - June 30, 1950
Master of Science Degree in Physiology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, June 30, 1951
Resident in General Surgery, V.A. Hospital, Hines, Illinois, July 1951 - June 1953
Research Associate, Dept. of Clinical Science & Physiology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, September 1,1951 - August 30, 1954
Attending Surgeon, L.A. County Harbor General Hospital, February 1955 - 1960
Senior Attending Surgeon, L.A. County General Hospital, Unit 11, 1963 - 1969
Assistant Clinical Professor, Surgery, California College of Medicine - University of Calif. Irvine, 1963 - 1973
Certified by American Board of General Surgery, May 1955
Fellow American College of Surgeons, 1960
Chief of Surgical Services and Chief of General Surgery, Brotman Medical Center, Culver City, Calif., 1976 and 1977
Private Practice General Surgery, Los Angeles, Calif., 1953 to 1988.
LEGAL CURRICULUM VITAE
J.D. Degree, University of West Los Angeles School of Law, 1978
Member of California Bar Association, 1978
Member of American Bar Association, 1979
Member of Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association, 1979
Members of California Trial Lawyers Association, 1980
Fellow American College of Legal Medicine 1986
Private Practice of Law, 1978 to present