Clinical social work expert witness that has more than 30 years of professional experience in social work practice involving child abuse assessment, foster care matters, trauma response, and psychosocial evaluation in medical and behavioral health settings. Professional work focuses on clinical social work, child welfare, and mental health services provided to adults, children, and families in hospital, outpatient, and community environments. Areas of expertise include child abuse case assessment, foster care matters, crisis intervention, trauma response, and counseling services involving individual, family, and group therapy. The expert also provides consultation and expert witness services in matters involving social services practice, clinical social work, and child welfare issues.

Professional experience includes work in hospital and medical settings involving psychosocial evaluations, case management, and patient advocacy. The expert has served as a transplant social worker supporting liver, intestinal, and lung transplant programs, performing psychosocial evaluations for transplant candidates and facilitating patient and family support groups related to transplant treatment and recovery. Responsibilities have also included emergency room trauma and crisis intervention, grief and bereavement counseling, and collaboration with interdisciplinary medical teams to address patient and family needs in healthcare environments.

The expert has served as team lead for a hospital behavioral response team addressing emergency behavioral health situations involving children and families. Responsibilities in this role have included individual and family therapy, crisis response, child abuse case assessment, and coordination with the Department of Child and Family Services. The expert has also served as a voting member of transplant patient selection committees and has provided counseling and psychosocial assessment for transplant patients and their families. Academic experience includes service as an adjunct assistant professor teaching graduate-level social work courses focused on adult mental health and wellness. The expert has also supervised clinical training for social work interns and participated in mentoring programs supporting social work education and professional development.

Professional credentials include Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). Educational background includes a Master of Social Work with a mental health concentration, doctoral candidacy in clinical psychology, and undergraduate study in sociology and political science. Additional professional activities include participation on the editorial board of a transplant-focused clinical journal and service on patient advocacy and policy committees within the United Network for Organ Sharing.