Legal Nurse Consultant Search
Christina A Sanders
Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability
Cardiology/cardiac rehab, Emergency/ trauma, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Standards
Christina Sanders has been a registered nurse since 1998 and has worked as a nurse practitioner for more than 10 years. She started her nursing career in the emergency department at Johns Hopkins Hospital while working towards her Masters degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. After completing her Masters in 2000, she began practicing as an adult nurse practitioner specializing in cardiology with a large private practice group in New Jersey. Since 2004, Christina has been working at Scripps Clinic in outpatient cardiology. Christina started her independent legal nurse consulting practice in 2007 and expanded her consulting business by starting Vera Juris in 2011. Her consulting includes both plaintiff and defense cases and she is a testifying expert for cases involving nurse practitioners. Christina has been a member of the AALNC-San Diego Chapter since 2006 and has served on the chapter's board since 2009.
? MSN, RN, NP
2004
1998
2004
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Andrea K. Goicoechea
Personal Injury, Product Liability, Toxic Tort, Workers' Compensation
? RN, PHN
2009
1981
2011
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Karen M. Harmon
Birth injury, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Labor and Delivery, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Other
I have been actively practicing in the area of Obstetrics since 1990. I am currently the Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist of a High-Risk Perinatal Unit at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns in San Diego. Prior to this position I was the Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist in Labor & Delivery and High-Risk OB at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Diego. My background includes being a clinical instructor for Maternal-Child Nursing at San Diego State University School of Nursing, chapter author for the 9th ed.(2009)of AWHONN's Fetal Heart Monitoring Principles & Practices text and current active member in the San Diego Chapter of Legal Nurse Consultants.
? RNC-OB, C-EFM, MSN, CNS
2003
1987
2003
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Ana-Maria Gallo
Birth injury, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Labor and Delivery, Nursing Standards, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Other
Dr. Ana-Maria Gallo has been a registered nurse since 1990. Her nursing career has focused primarily in obstetrics. Her clinical background experienced includes labor & delivery, OB triage, antenatal testing and high risk OB. In addition to clinical experience she practiced as a Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Woman and has taught maternal-child health classes at both Point Loma Nazarene University and the University of San Diego. Currently she is the Director of Nursing Education, Research and Professional Development at Sharp Grossmont Hospital.
Dr. Gallo attended Point Loma Nazarene University where she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She has completed her Masters and Doctoral degree at the University of San Diego and completed a post-doctorate fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. In addition to her current role Dr. Gallo serves as adjunct faculty at San Diego State University and at the University of Phoenix, San Diego campus.
She is an active member of several professional organizations such as Association of Women’s health Obstetrics and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, and the American Association of Legal Nurse consultant. She presents both locally and nationally on perinatal topics and has been published.
? PhD, CNS, RNC-OB
2005
1990
2005
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Laura Burchell-Henson
Criminal, Elder Law, Independent Medical Examination, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Workers' Compensation
Administration, Birth injury, Cardiology/cardiac rehab, Case Management, Emergency/ trauma, Gerontology/Nursing Home, Home Care, ICU, IV therapy, Life Care Planning, Medical Surgical, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Nursing Standards, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Other, Pediatrics, Rehabilitation, Wound Care
? RN, ASN, CCRN, RCP, LNC, LCP
1991
2000
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Terrie Ellen Gibbs
Administration, Cardiology/cardiac rehab, Case Management, Elder/child abuse, Gerontology/Nursing Home, Home Care, ICU, Medical Surgical, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Standards, Operating Room/Recovery, Orthopedics/Sports Medicine, Plastic Surgery, Quality Assurance, Wound Care
I started nursing in 1972 at Sharp Memorial Hospital in Med-Surg then ICU and Cardiac Cath Lab. In 1977, I joined the Navy Nurse Corps gaining experience in NeuroSurgery, Orthopedics, ICU, Surgical ICU, Cardiothoracic ICU, Pediatrics, Plastic Surgery, Urology, Same Day Surgeries, Podiatry, Triage, Trauma Life Support, Cardiac Surgery Step-Down and Cardiac Rehab. I retired from the Navy and went into Home Health and Hospice.
? MSN, APN
2009
1973
2009
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Virgie G. Demanski
Independent Medical Examination, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury
Fact Witness, Other
Private practice specializing in medical and mental examinations (IMEs, DMEs) for the legal community from monitoring through settlement with expert witness testimony.
Thirty years of total clinical nursing experience was acquired mostly in acute care settings as a staff nurse with 22 years in Perioperative Nursing (Operating Room) and three years in Psychiatric Nursing.
? BA, ASN, RN, CNOR(E)
1998
1977
1998
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Jill Suzanne Miles
? RN, MSN
1996
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K. DeAnn Taylor
Criminal, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability
Fact Witness
17 years of clinical nursing experience, primarily in the areas of critical care, cardiology and the cardiac cath lab. She has been a successful independent Legal Nurse Consultant since starting her own business, KDT Consulting, in 1997, with her practice focusing on medical malpractice, personal injury, and product liability. She has been an active member of the San Diego Chapter of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants since 2000.
? RN, LNCC
1998
1982
1997
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Denise B Sannicandro
Disability, Health Care Fraud, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Toxic Tort, Workers' Compensation
Administration, Case Management, Gerontology/Nursing Home, Home Care, Other
1974
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Joanne M. Behymer
Criminal, Elder Law, Family Law, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Toxic Tort
? MSN, RN
1987
1987
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Regina Noonan
Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Toxic Tort
23 years as legal nurse consultant, among 1st in country with advanced level LNCC certification. Extensive experience with nationally recognized lawfirms in mass tort cases (Kaye Scholer, Sidley Austin, Wilson Elser, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Morris Polich & Purdy, McKenna & Cuneo, Morrison Forrester, Neil Dymott). Excellence in developing defense strategies and Medline research.
? RN, MSN, LNCC
1988
1982
1988
2003
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Kay O'Malley
Cardiology/cardiac rehab, ICU
? RN, LNC, CCRN
2009
1998
2011
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Marsue C May
? MBA, BSN, RN, LNCC
1992
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Joan Munsey
Joan received her BSN from the University of New Mexico. Her career has spanned several nursing venues including hospitals, clinics, home health care, a bush hospital in Gabon, Africa, and public schools.
In 1990, she began working as a school nurse and obtained her credential in school nursing from San Diego State University. During her service in public schools, she specialized in meeting the challenges of special needs children.
In 2008, she became interested in legal nurse consulting and obtained her CLNC certification from the Vicki Milazzo Institute. Although she is new to legal nurse consulting, she has twenty years of experience as a school nurse. She has recently written an article, “More than Band-Aids: An Overview of how law impacts school nursing”, which will soon be published in the fall edition of The Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting.
? RN, BSN, PHN, CLNC, School Nurse
2008
1970
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Cary Zijlstra Joel
Disability, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Workers' Compensation
? RN, MSN, CLNC
2007
1980
2007
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Marilyn Wiedemann
Criminal, Family Law, Independent Medical Examination, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Toxic Tort
Marilyn Wiedemann has served in various rolls over her 37 year career. She earned her BSN from CSU Dominguez Hills and MS from USD. Her hospital experience includes Pediatrics and Maternal Child Health with a primary focus (15 yrs.) as ALS (Advanced Life Support) Nurse in the NICU and for the past 6 years as MCH Nurse Educator. She has been an NRP Instructor for 18 years and even certified MD’s and RN’s in Latvia and Lithuania with the International Relief Teams. Marilyn received her CLNC in 2008 and is Founder/Director of Medline Legal Nurse Consultants in which her work represents either plaintiff or defense for Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability & Criminal Cases.
? MS, RNC, CLNC
2008
1975
2008
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Liz Holakiewicz
Life Care Planning
I am a certified nurse life care planner with more than 20 years experience in life care planning for patients with various disabilities and conditions, and the related deposition and trial testimony this role entails. I also prepare care plans for use within the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. In 1981, I graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Biola College. Additonal certifications include public health nursing (1981) and case management (1993). My clinical nursing background includes MICU, CCU, Home Health and Case Management.
Currently, my role with SDAALNC is President and website chair. Additional professional affiliations include the American Association of Nurse Life Care Planners, Case Management Society of America, North American Nursing Diagnoses Association International, International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals and the International Academy of Life Care Planners.
? BSN, RN, CCM, CNLCP
1991
1981
1991
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Crystal Piedra
Medical Malpractice
Nurse Anesthetist, Other
? CRNA, MSN
2005
1979
2006
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Marsha Rae (Anderson) Harp
Criminal, Elder Law, Family Law, Independent Medical Examination, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Workers' Compensation
NICU
I have been an RN since 1993. The majority of my experience has been in the NICU but also includes experience in PICU, pediatrics, adolescents, mother/baby, pediatric home health and the emergency department. I received my advanced nursing certification in the NICU in 2010. I spent three years as a clinical supervisor in a thirty six bed level III NICU. I obtained my legal nurse consulting certification in April 2007 and started my own independent consulting firm, Our Legal Nurse Consultants, LLC. I work with both plaintiff and defense attorneys, primarily in the areas of medical malpractice, personal injury, and product liability cases. I am a testifying expert in the NICU realm only. I have been a certified CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) and NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program) instructor for the last fourteen years. Professional memberships include: American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC) both locally and nationally (I currently serve locally as the marketing chair and a director at large), National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN), American Nurses Association (ANA), California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN), and the American College of Forensic Examiners (ACFE).
? RNC, LNC, FRN
2007
1993
2007
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Kathleen Elizabeth Loeffler
Health Care Fraud, Independent Medical Examination, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Toxic Tort
Fact Witness, ICU, Medical Surgical, Other, Pediatrics
? RN, BSN
1987
1977
1986
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MJ Tichacek
? MN, Psysch Mental Health, CNS-Board Certified
1969
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Liz Bergman
Independent Medical Examination, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury
Plastic Surgery
Liz has been an RN since 1981. She currently practices at Scripps Clinic (since 1983) in many different areas, but primarily in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Her clinical experience consists of pre and post operative patient education and care, assisting in surgery and recovery, burn and wound care, facial fractures, and cancer reconstruction. Many of these patients are inpatients, so Liz has experience with hospital care and rounds. Liz has been a LNC since 2002, after completing the LNC course at UCSD. She primarily does medical malpractice and screening cases for merit. She has worked with both plaintiff and defense attorneys and has trial experience.
? RN
2002
1981
2002
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Cindy Dyte
Personal Injury, Product Liability, Toxic Tort
Cindy has been an RN since 1981. Clinical expertise includes Emergency/Trauma, ICU (medical/surgical, trauma, cardiac), DME, Utilization Review and Quality Management. She worked for Health Net for 14 years as Manager of Health Care Services, and was the Director of Patient Care Services for a DME agency. She has experience with defense pharmaceutical litigation, drug safety, products liability, personal injury, medical and nursing malpractice. She has been a member of AALNC since 2005.
? BSN, RN, LNCC
2005
1981
2006
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Frann Teplick
Obstetrics/Gynecology
? RN-BC, MSN, CNS
1985
1978
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Rosanna Janes
Criminal, Health Care Fraud, Independent Medical Examination, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Toxic Tort
Fact Witness
Founding Member of AALNC and over 25 years experience in Legal Nurse Consulting, including 17 yrs in-house LNC at Luce Forward Law Firm. Owner of Janes & Associates since 2003. Experience working on cases involving health care fraud, products liability, personal injury, toxic tort, medical malpractice, insurance bad faith, employment law, criminal law, white collar crime,family law, probate law, nursing home litigation, and elder abuse. Worked on the Daubert case.
? RN, BSN
1986
1979
1986
2003
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Susan J. Farese
Criminal, Family Law, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Workers' Compensation
Administration, Emergency/ trauma, Fact Witness, ICU, Medical Surgical, Other, Quality Assurance
? MSN, RN
1996
1978
2011
1996
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