Dr. David S. Levey is a Texas-based Diagnostic Radiologist, with offices in Austin and San Antonio, working throughout Texas and the US, with nearly 35 years of experience. He provides both Insurance Defense and Plaintiff Attorneys assistance as a Medical Expert, with radiologic interpretation services, as an Expert Witness for ALL types of Radiology and MRI studies. Although Dr. Levey has been in clinical practice without interruption for over three decades, he has now been working as a full time Expert Witness for over 15 years. He is Board Certified, Fellowship trained, and extensively published in the field of Radiology (C/V available upon request).
Dr. Levey has been involved a number of cases where he spends time reviewing not only the MRI, CT, X-ray, Nuclear medicine and other Radiology studies, but is called upon for much more, as noted below:
When asked to review a case, Dr. Levey will evaluate the complete battery of medical and surgical records, including but not limited to EMS and police/accident reports, initial ER visits, urgent care center records, physical therapy logs, chiropractic and pain medicine treatments, surgical evaluation and operative treatment. Additionally, Dr. Levey will critically review the Life Care plan for accurate assessment of the diagnostics deemed reasonable and necessary for a lifetime of care, as well as an array of other "expert opinion reports", depositions and opinion papers that may be generated by opposing counsel in a traumatic or malpractice setting.
Dr. Levey's goal is to evaluate the facts of an injury case, medical records, depositions and MRI/ radiology images and reports, to apply an independent, impartial approach for both Defense and Plaintiff firms. This includes non-traumatic cases of medical malpractice and those having a nosocomial etiology. Ultimately, Dr. Levey is called upon to establish causation related to a given injury. His consultative reports commonly include a discussion regarding cause and effect.
Additionally, Dr. Levey has been working in the field of traumatic brain injury (mTBI, TBI, CTE) for over 30 years. He has personally designed a program for obtaining 3T DTI MRI brain imaging on potentially brain-injured patients, for which he uses qualitative and quantitative brain 3T MRI DTI imaging. He has evaluated brain injured patients throughout the US and Canada.
Many Radiologists are unable/untrained/unwilling to do this kind of work, as they are part of a larger Radiology group practice that admonishes any interface with Attorneys. Dr. Levey is self-employed and self-governed; therefore due to his interest in the field, he has made this a primary professional interest.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Dr. Levey interfaces on a regular basis with Attorneys/ Law Firms/ Insurance companies, providing unbiased analysis of data for case evaluation and resolution, available for both defense and plaintiff attorneys. He has also been involved in a large number of cases where he was asked to evaluate a case for the the presence or absence of a link to causation. He welcomes discussions, commentary and documentation of cause-and-effect analysis- and may work with other treating or hired Physicians to do so.
Recently, Dr. Levey was the radiology medical expert in the U.S. v. Bergdahl military case, where brain injury evaluation w/ Brain MRI DTI with NeuroQuant® was used in the verdict arrived at for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, at Ft. Bragg military base. Dr. Levey welcomes military cases which may involve working with JAG counsel.
Dr. Levey provides service without geographic boundaries, and is willing to travel wherever necessary for expert witness and consultative purposes.
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