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Expert in Health & Human Services, Expert Witness
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Summary of Expertise:
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Expert provides Standard of Care opinions related to quality of care and treatment provided by health, education and human service agencies. He has extensive training and experience in health and human service management, special education, quality assurance, performance management and regulatory compliance.
His casework includes personal injury, wrongful death, deficient practices in nursing care centers, community and residential mental retardation programs, private psychiatric facilities, juvenile treatment and special education. He has been involved in over 125 cases related to nursing home care, mental retardation, mental health, special education and juvenile treatment.
Expert has provided deposition testimony 19 times, trial testimony four times, spends 20% of his professional time in expert witness work and is retained by the plaintiff 90% of the time.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Wichita, Kansas.
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Institution |
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1968
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BSE
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Special Education (MR)
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Arkansas State Uinversity
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1969
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MSE
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Speical Education (MR)
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Arkansas State Uinversity
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1975
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PhD
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Behavior Disorders
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St. Louis University
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1994 to 2008
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Friends University
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Graduate School of Business
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Professor of Management
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He teaches graduate classes for non-traditional students returning to college to complete their MBA and Masters in Health Care Leadership.
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1987 to 1994
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Winfield State Hospital & Training Center
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Administration
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Director
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He was the Director of this public residential facility for the mentally retarded. WSH&TC was a 500 bed, 1500 employee and $35,000,000 facility.
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1986 to 1987
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Kansas Department of Mental Retardation
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Administration
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Special Assistant to the Commisioner
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He responsible for the quality of care provided in all state mental health and mental retardation facilties.
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1994 to 2003
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Ceda Vale Community Hospital
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Administrator
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He was the Administrator of a Critical Access Hospital that provided acute and long term care services
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1996 to 2003
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Cedar Vale Human Services
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CEO
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He was the Chief Executive Officer for this non-profit human service organizations. Service components included a cummunity support system for persons with mental retardtion and a 50 bed intermediate care nursing home.
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Associations/Societies
American Association on Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities,
American Management Association,
President, Kansas Chapter (1993) American Association on Mental Retardation;
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Professional Appointments
Vice-President Region V (1992)
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Awards/Recognition
Developmental Disabilities Services Manager's Annual Award for Outstanding Management
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Publications and Patents Summary
Several publications and presentations in the field
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2007- South Central Kansas Trauma Council Strategic Planning Activity Wichita, Kansas
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2000- Mental Health & Personal Injury Thurswell, Chayet & Weiner
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Liberty Health Care- Strategic Planning
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2001- Maloney & Maloney, P.C. Mental Retardation & Wrongful Death
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2001- Turner & Turner- Medical Center Personal Injury
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Expert Witness Experience Summary:
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He has been involved in over 125 cases related to nursing home care, mental retardation, mental health, special education and juvenile treatment. He has provided deposition testimony 19 times and trial testimony four times
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Recent Litigation Client Requests:
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Expert in intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded.
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"Nursing home liability expert" for consulting on Nursing home standard of care.
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