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Urgent Care Experts

Our board-certified Urgent Care expert witnesses are highly experienced in evaluating and treating acute illnesses, injuries, and time-sensitive medical conditions in fast-paced outpatient settings. They possess extensive expertise in patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, procedural care, and clinical decision-making across a broad range of urgent medical presentations. With the ability to clearly explain complex medical issues, standards of care, and treatment decisions, they provide valuable support in legal and consulting matters. Drawing on years of hands-on clinical experience and evidence-based practice, they deliver thorough, objective, and reliable opinions that help attorneys, organizations, and courts make well-informed decisions. Their expertise is particularly valuable in cases involving urgent care management, delayed diagnosis, treatment outcomes, patient triage, and acute injury or illness evaluation.

  • Urgent Care Medicine

  • Acute Illness Evaluation and Management

  • Minor Trauma and Injury Care

  • Musculoskeletal Injuries & Fractures

  • Sprains, Strains, and Soft Tissue Injuries

  • Laceration Assessment and Repair

  • Wound Care and Infection Management

  • Missed Heart Attack or Stroke Diagnoses

  • Medication Errors

  • Improper Triage Cases

  • Failure to Refer to Emergency Department

  • Occupational Injury Disputes

  • Sepsis and Serious Infection Cases

  • Delayed Treatment Claims

  • Upper Respiratory Infections (URI)

  • Failure to Diagnose Serious Conditions

  • Missed Fractures and Orthopedic Injuries

  • Concussion Evaluation & Management
  • Electrocardiogram (EKG) Interpretation

  • Splinting and Immobilization Procedures

  • Adult and Geriatric Acute Care

Areas of Expertise

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

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Board Certified in Urgent Care and Family Medicine

25+ years in practice

The Expert is a board-certified Family Physician with more than 25 years of clinical experience spanning urgent care, family medicine, emergency medicine, residency education, and military medicine. She earned her medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine and completed her Family Medicine residency training at Madigan Army Medical Center. Board-certified by the American Board of Family Medicine since 2003 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, she currently practices full-time in urgent care, providing comprehensive care for patients of all ages. Her clinical expertise includes acute illness management, musculoskeletal injuries, cardiovascular evaluation, mental health assessment, laceration repair, splinting, foreign body removal, gynecologic procedures, toenail procedures, and interpretation of EKGs and radiologic studies. Throughout her career, she has practiced full-spectrum family medicine, including outpatient and inpatient care, women’s health, pediatrics, geriatrics, preventive medicine, chronic disease management, and a wide range of office-based and procedural interventions.

In addition to her extensive clinical background, The Expert served as an active-duty Army physician and deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, where she provided emergency, trauma, and acute care to military personnel and civilians. She has also practiced as a rural emergency medicine physician and held multiple academic and teaching appointments, mentoring residents, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare professionals. Recognized for excellence in medical education with multiple Teacher of the Year awards, she has contributed to residency training programs and academic medicine throughout her career. Her experience further includes participation in hospital case review, ethics, pharmacy, and quality improvement committees, as well as authorship of peer-reviewed publications and professional presentations. Her professional background combines broad clinical expertise, procedural proficiency, military service, physician education, and multidisciplinary collaboration across urgent care, primary care, emergency medicine, and academic medicine.

Specialty Focus: Family Medicine, Urgent Care, Emergency Medicine, Military Medicine

Education: 

MD - Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Internship - Family Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Ft. Lewis, WA

Residency - Family Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Ft. Lewis, WA

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