Cardiovascular care supports one of the largest medical device and pharmaceutical markets in the world, and the commercial relationships behind it generate disputes over products, data, distribution, and services. Device manufacturers sue component suppliers over catheter and guidewire defects, cardiac surgery centers pursue makers of heart-lung bypass and perfusion equipment, and hospital networks challenge telemetry vendors and perfusionist staffing agencies that fail to meet service levels. Distribution and purchasing arrangements produce their own conflicts, including exclusive territory and group purchasing disputes, while acquirers of stent and valve manufacturers contest undisclosed quality problems and companies litigate access to registry and research consortium data needed for post-market surveillance. In each matter, the central question is whether a cardiovascular product, dataset, or service met the clinical, technical, and contractual standards the parties relied on.
A cardiovascular expert evaluates that question by connecting the technical and contractual record to clinical reality, reviewing engineering and quality data, complaint and adverse event information, uptime and staffing records, and the medical literature. The expert can assess whether a component deviation or firmware defect plausibly affected device performance, whether monitoring outages or staffing shortfalls compromised the level of cardiac care contracted for, or whether restricted data access impaired a regulatory surveillance obligation. Causation then turns on separating effects attributable to the defendant's product or conduct from the underlying disease burden and variability of cardiovascular patients. Those findings support warranty, indemnity, breach, and infringement claims, provide a clinical foundation for damages, and equip counsel to rebut an opposing expert's interpretation of clinical or device data.
Cardiovascular disputes can require expertise in clinical cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, cardiovascular pharmacology, drug discovery, nursing, epidemiology, and device engineering, so the right expert is one whose experience corresponds to the product or service at issue. The experts we present include a clinical cardiologist with five board certifications who trained at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Yale, and Johns Hopkins, a cardiothoracic and endovascular surgeon who has testified on coronary disease and hospital-related injuries, and a drug discovery scientist who helped commercialize two ion channel drugs and whose group helped pioneer modern ion channel drug discovery. Our network also includes cardiovascular pharmacologists, medicinal chemists who have published on statins and antithrombotics, cardiovascular epidemiologists, and nurses specializing in cardiovascular critical care and rehabilitation. With more than 75,000 expert searches for litigators completed, Round Table Group can help you find the cardiovascular expert your matter requires, and you can start that search by calling us at (202) 908-4500.
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Dr. Gellman has over twenty years of experience in cardiovascular medicine. He is trained in Internal Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, in Cardiovascular Research at Yale University and in Clinical Cardiology at Johns Hopkins.
View ProfileI have 16 years of experience, and specialize in the field of medicinal chemistry with specific knowledge in the areas of cardiovascular, combinatorial and chemistry technology. I have published on such topics as statins, antithrombotics and combinatorial chemistry.
I have 8 years of experience and specialize in the field of preventive nutrition, with specific knowledge of cardiovascular, diabetes and aging. I have published on such topics as cardiovascular nutrition and menopause.
I have 8 years of experience, and specialize in the field of nutrition, genetics and cardiovascular epidemiology with specific knowledge in the areas of cholesterol, fatty acids and fenofibrate. I have published on such topics as dietary fat, epidemiological methods and heart disease.
I have 7 years of experience, and specialize in the field of pharmacy with specific knowledge in the areas of cardiology, cardiovascular pharmacology and clinical management of cardiovascular patients. I have published on such topics as aspirin resistance, acute heart failure and hypertension.
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I have 18 years of experience and specialize in the field of nursing, with specific knowledge of cardiovascular, critical care and genetics. I have published on such topics as Turner Syndrome, cardiovascular diseases and congenital heart disease.
I have 9 years of experience, and specialize in the field of cardiovascular pharmacology with specific knowledge in the areas of ischemia-reperfusion injury, heart failure and stroke. I have published on such topics as cardiovascular disease, signal transduction and caveolae and lipid rafts.
I have 40 years of experience, and specialize in the field of hypertension, with specific knowledge in the areas of pathophysiology, therapy, and antihypertensive drugs. I have published on such topics as hypertension, pathophysiology, therapy and antihypertensive drugs.
I have 10 years of experience, and specialize in the field of physiology with specific knowledge in the areas of exercise physiology, cardiovascular physiology and blood pressure regulation.
I have 13 years of experience, and specialize in the field of nursing with specific knowledge in the areas of cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation.
I have 30 years of experience, and specialize in the field of drug discovery and development with specific knowledge in the areas of ion channel drug discovery and development, ion channel safety concerns and ion channel intellectual property. I have published on such topics as specific ion channel drug discovery efforts, ion channel screening and counter-screening and cardiovascular, diabetes and pain therapeutic areas. I have helped commercialize two ion channel drugs and I still have drug candidates in clinical development. My group helped pioneer modern ion channel drug discovery.
I have 18 years of experience, and specialize in the field of cardiovascular surgery with specific knowledge in the areas of cardiac thoracic and vascular, endovascular and minimally invasive. I have published on such topics as medical. I have testified on coronary disease and hospital related injuries.
I have 40 years of experience, and specialize in the field of biomedicine with specific knowledge in the areas of endocrinology, cardiovascualar and endogenous opioids. I have published on such topics as neuroendocrine regulation of the heart. Top biomedical sciences teacher with recognized ability to explain difficult concepts in practical and/or lay terms resulting in teaching engagements in Kuwait, Puerto Rico, Mexico, St Maarten, NY, SC and Co.
I have 8 years of experience, and specialize in the field of pharmacology with specific knowledge in the areas of drugs, adverse drug reactions and appropriate usage. I have published on such topics as role of antioxidants in the prevention of cancer, the role of antioxidant vitamins in cardiovascular disease and delta opioid receptor, morphine and hormone. I have testified on forgery of prescription by a patient. I have dual degrees with PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences and PharmD in Pharmacy. I teach pharmacy students to be competent pharmacist when they graduate, and I also practice as a pharmacist to help…
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