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Critical Care Experts

Our critical care experts play a crucial role in legal cases involving intensive care and emergency medicine. With broad experience in critical care medicine, advanced life support, and patient management in high-pressure environments, they offer valuable insights into medical-legal issues. 

 

Their expertise includes managing severe trauma, complex surgeries, critical care protocols, and ventilator management. This knowledge helps ensure accurate evaluations of medical interventions, adherence to standard care practices, and informed opinions on potential malpractice or negligence claims. By connecting complex medical situations with legal considerations, our expert aids in understanding and fair adjudication in critical care litigation.

  • Allergies

  • Asbestosis

  • Asthma

  • Bronchoscopy

  • Cardiac Arrest

  • Chronic Bronchitis

  • COPD/Emphysema

  • COVID-19

  • Critical Care Medicine

  • Hospitalist Medicine

  • Interstitial Lung Disease

  • Medical Malpractice

  • Narcolepsy

  • Occupational Lung Disease

  • Pulmonary Disease

Areas of Expertise

Our critical care experts cover a broad range of cases, including:

Pramod Krishnamurthy, MD, Board Certified in Intenstive Care Medicine, Expert Witness

Pramod Krishnamurthy, MD

Board Certified in Intensive Care Medicine

10 years in practice

Pramod Krishnamurthy, MD, MPH is board-certified in Pulmonology Critical Care and Interventional Pulmonology and is an Associate Medical Director at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in the Bay Area, California. Dr. Krishnamurthy has a busy outpatient pulmonology practice and in addition practices critical care medicine at El Camino Hospital and Sutter Eden Medical Center. He has clinical privileges at four Bay Area hospitals ( El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Sutter Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, Washington Hospital in Fremont, and San Ramon Regional Hospital). His special interests include lung nodules and lung cancer, COPD, advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy, and critical care medicine including sepsis and respiratory failure.

Education:

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MB BS) - Bangalore University, India.

Master of Public Health (MPH) - University of North Texas.

Internship - Kempe Gowda Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital, India.

Residency (Internal Medicine) - Rochester General Hospital, Rochester NY. 

Fellowship - Pulmonary Medicine - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY.

Fellowship - Critical Care Medicine - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY.

Fellowship - Interventional Pulmonology - Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

Specialty Focus: Pulmonology Critical Care and Interventional Pulmonology

Bobbak Vahid, MD, Board Certified in Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care and Internal Medicine, Expert Witness

Bobbak Vahid, MD

Board Certified in Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care, and Internal Medicine

20 years in practice

Dr. Bobbak Vahid is a pulmonologist in Oakland, California, and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Eden Medical Center and San Leandro Hospital. He received his medical degree from the Iran University of Medical Sciences and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Pulmonologists treat ailments of the lungs and respiratory systems include asthma, pneumonia, tuberculosis, complicated chest infections, and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases including emphysema.

Education:

Doctor of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Tehran, Iran

Fellowship, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.

Specialty Focus: Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care, and Internal Medicine

Kristina Kury, MD

Board Certified in Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care, & Internal Medicine

20 years in practice

Kristina Kury M.D. is board-certified in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and is the Regional Medical Director for Sound Critical Care, East Bay, and the Medical Director for the Sutter Eden Medical Center ICU and Respiratory Departments.

 

Dr. Kury has over 20 years of experience in both pulmonary and critical care medicine and currently oversees the ICU programs at three Sutter sites in the SF Bay Area including Alta Bates Summit Medical Center campuses in both Oakland and Berkeley as well as the Sutter Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley.

Education:

MD, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H.

MS Exercise Science, University of California, Davis

BS Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics, UC Berkeley

Specialty Focus: Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care,Internal Medicine

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