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Review of Case Materials
Reviews records, documents, testimony, data, and other relevant materials and consults with counsel regarding technical issues related to the matter.
Provide Expert Analysis
Applies specialized knowledge and experience to evaluate the technical or professional issues involved.
Form Expert Opinions
Develops independent, supportable opinions based on the available evidence and relevant standards.
Prepare Expert Reports
Prepares clear, well-supported expert reports outlining methodology, analysis, findings, and opinions.
Provide Deposition Testimony
Explains findings and opinions under oath and responds to questioning during deposition testimony.
Testify in Court
Presents specialized findings and opinions clearly to judges, juries, arbitrators, or other decision-makers.
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Relevant records may include diagnostic assessments, weight and growth history, dietary intake, laboratory results, vital signs, medications, psychotherapy notes, nutrition records, hospitalizations, and documented restrictive eating, binge eating, purging, or other compensatory behaviors. Comparing information over time can help trace when symptoms or behaviors were first documented, how treatment changed, and whether the condition improved, persisted, or recurred.
No. Eating disorders are identified from patterns of eating behavior, associated thoughts or concerns when relevant, medical findings, functional effects, and the broader clinical history rather than body weight or appearance alone. Significant nutritional compromise and medical instability can occur across a range of body weights, including after substantial or rapid weight loss in a person who is not underweight.
Anorexia nervosa involves restriction of energy intake leading to significantly low body weight, together with an intense fear of gaining weight, persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain, or disturbance in how body weight or shape is experienced. Bulimia nervosa involves recurrent binge-eating episodes accompanied by recurrent inappropriate compensatory behaviors, such as self-induced vomiting, fasting, laxative misuse, or excessive exercise. Binge-eating disorder also involves recurrent binge eating with loss of control, but without the regular compensatory behaviors characteristic of bulimia nervosa.
Relevant findings may include weight and growth trajectory, rate of weight change, hydration status, heart rate, blood pressure and orthostatic changes, electrolyte and other laboratory abnormalities, ECG findings, gastrointestinal symptoms, endocrine changes, menstrual history when applicable, and bone-health information. Bradycardia, hypotension, orthostatic changes, dehydration, electrolyte disturbances, and ECG abnormalities can be signs of medical instability. Overall medical status should be determined from the clinical picture rather than from body weight or a single laboratory result alone.
Psychiatry expertise may be appropriate when the disputed issues involve another psychiatric disorder, psychiatric medication management, suicide risk, or complex mental health treatment. Nutrition or dietetics expertise may be relevant when dietary intake, nutritional requirements, deficiencies, meal planning, or nutrition therapy is central to the case. Pediatrics or Adolescent Medicine expertise may be appropriate when age-specific growth, pubertal development, or medical stabilization of a child or adolescent is a primary concern.
