Pain Management and Addiction Specialist
Areas of Expertise: Addiction & Substance Abuse
Specialist in Pain Management and Board Certified Addiction Medicine Physician. Clinical focus in the appropriate management of pain, addiction or persons whose life circumstance is impacted by controlled medications. Highly experienced with complications, impairment, or bad outcome from prescribed or illicit substances. Expert in clinical and regulatory standards related to analgesics, pain management, and addictions. Consequences of cannabis use and alcohol are within the scope of his professional expertise.
This expert has guided complicated civil cases through expert opinion, assisting both plaintiff and defense counsel, and criminal matters related to billing fraud, and medical necessity. Professional licensure investigations, family law custody matters related to cannabis impairment, and employment law where dismissal or other events are complicated by substance use, or interpretation of urine drug screening. Inpatient and ambulatory overdose from Methadone, Fentanyl, heroin, or exposure to other prescribed opioids are commonly reviewed by this expert.
Current Employment
Active Physician — Evergreen Health Primary Care (Woodinville WA)
Education
Internal Medicine Residency -Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle) 1997 MD — University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1994
Certification
Internal Medicine (American Board of Internal Medicine Certification 1999) Addiction Board Certified (American Board of Addiction Medicine 2010)
Advisory Leadership and Committee Membership
Bree Collaborative- Interagency Opioid Dosing Guideline Implementation Committee Member-EvergreenHealth Partners Quality Committee
Member- Physician's Insurance Risk Management and Education Committee Expert Advisor — Washington State Agency Medical Director's Group Opioid Dosing President — Washington Society of Addiction Medicine 2011-2013
CME Delivery, Public Testimony, and Curriculum Design
Lead Author >20 hours Cat 1 CME Pain Management and Addiction