Terwilliger v. Kingston Hospital
Alcohol-withdrawal assessment, CIWA methodology, benzodiazepine dosing, respiratory failure, standard of care, and medical causation. Videotaped trial testimony.
Trial testimony
Independent forensic psychiatry · NY · CA
Psychiatric malpractice.Forensic precision.
Independent psychiatric expertise for litigation involving standard of care, suicide, prescribing, addiction, withdrawal, institutional care, and medical causation.
01 / Practice
Current clinical practice.
Specialized forensic training.
Case review is grounded in active psychiatric practice, medical leadership, formal forensic training, and detailed analysis of the record.
Board certification
Psychiatry
Forensic Psychiatry
Addiction Psychiatry
Forensic Psychiatry
Addiction Psychiatry
Medical licensure
NY · CA
Current roles
Medical leadership
Academic psychiatry
Academic psychiatry
02 / Expertise
Psychiatric standards.
Medical causation.
01
Psychiatric malpractice
Assessment, diagnosis, treatment, documentation, monitoring, supervision, and clinical decision-making.
02
Suicide & disposition
Risk assessment, observation, hospitalization, discharge, follow-up, and institutional response.
03
Prescribing & medication harm
Psychopharmacology, controlled substances, monitoring, adverse effects, oversedation, and causation.
04
Addiction & withdrawal
Alcohol, benzodiazepine, and opioid withdrawal; methadone, buprenorphine, and treatment systems.
05
Emergency & institutional care
High-acuity psychiatric care, inpatient treatment, correctional settings, protocols, and transitions.
06
Medical causation
Clinical chronology and the relationship between alleged departures, illness, substances, medications, and harm.
03 / Experience
Selected matters.
Documented testimony.
Argento v. Genesee County
Jail suicide involving opioid withdrawal, timeliness and adequacy of treatment, suicide risk, supervision, and correctional medical care.
Expert opinion
Merritt v. Erie County
Abrupt methadone discontinuation, opioid withdrawal, delirium, head injury, institutional policy, and standard of care.
Expert opinion
Smith v. Troy Police Department
Opioid prescribing, severe opioid use disorder, progression to non-prescribed opioids, fatal overdose, and medical causation.
Causation
Discussa matter.
For an initial conflict check, provide the parties, jurisdiction, retaining side, general psychiatric issue, and anticipated deadline. Please do not send records until conflicts and availability have been reviewed.
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