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EXPERT WITNESS—FORENSIC EXPERT—LITIGATION SUPPORT—PHARMACY CONSULTATION—SECOND OPINIONS
Dr. Michael Binion, R.Ph., B.S., M.B.A., Pharm.D., in addition to classroom education, has completed a three year clinical pharmacy residency. He is also a licensed private investigator. Dr. Binion has over 35 years of hands–on patient care experience in severely ill hospitalized patients, including Intensive Care Units (ICU), as well as in the ambulatory care and community setting. Dr. Binion’s academic credentials, clinical training, health care experience, and investigator’s perspective—combined with the powerful Croft and Hicks Investigative Team— offers a truly unique skill set and unbeatable array of talent available to help support plaintiffs, defense attorneys, law enforcement agencies, insurance companies, financial institutions, other businesses, government, and private individuals.
- Processes and Procedures Review
- Document Review
- Patient Interview and Assessment
- Site Inspection
- Written Reports
- Deposition Testimony
Litigation Support
- Trial Testimony
- Medical Literature Search—for Supporting or Opposing Evidence
- Analysis of Opposing Expert Evidence
- Case Strategy Analysis
- Entire Croft & Hicks Team Expertise Available
In addition to working on the medical and legal issues identified above, Dr. Binion provides drug information, drug therapy review, patient counseling, second opinions, and other professional pharmaceutical services to private individuals and family’s who require assistance with drug related issues. Often these people, for various reasons, do not want to use the more traditional sources of drug information available to them such as the local pharmacy, hospital, family doctor, counseling services, support groups, etc., or discussion with family or friends. These consultative services are always held in the strictest confidence.
Dr. Binion is also an excellent public speaker and skillful communicator with the ability to articulate complex, highly technical information in a clear, concise and easily understood manner to non-technical audiences. He utilizes visual aids as necessary to emphasize key elements and assist with the learning and understanding process.
Dr Binion ensures the safe, efficacious, most cost-effective, and correct choice of medications for patient care. He routinely evaluates, analyzes, intervenes and manages:
- Adverse drug reactions
- Allergic reactions – avoidance and treatment
- Drug administration errors
- Drug prescribing with no indication or wrong indication
- Drug toxicity, morbidity and mortality
- Laboratory tests and results
- Medication error reporting and mitigation
- Medication non compliance
- Over dosage (supratherapeutic)
- Serum drug level monitoring
- Under dosage (subtherapeutic)
- Therapeutic trade offs (risk/benefit analysis)
- Wrong drug choice
Dr. Binion is well versed in State and Federal pharmacy law requirements, compliance, processes and procedures including; board licensure, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), The Joint Commission (JCAHO – Joint Commission Accreditation Health Care Organizations), continuing pharmaceutical education requirements (CME, CPE, American Council Pharmaceutical Education – ACPE), drug procurement, drug distribution systems (both institutional and community), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Schedule II – V Controlled Substances, special drug registries (e.g., clozaril, accutane, etc.,), orphan drugs, medication patient safety event reporting (drug errors), evidence based medicine, managed care principles and practices, insurance company and third party reimbursement.
- Addictions
- Adverse Drug Reactions
- Alcohol
- Allergic Reactions
- Causation Analysis
- Chart Review
- Clinical Consequences and Impact—Adverse Drug Events
- Clinical Pharmacy Practice Standards
- Community Practice
- Consultant Pharmacist Responsibilities and Obligations
- DWI/DUI
- Drug Abuse
- Drug Addiction
- Drug—Drug Interactions
- Drug—Environmental Interactions
- Drug—Food Interactions
- Drug—Herbal Remedy Interactions
- Drug Information
- Drugs—Narcotics
- Drug—OTC Interactions
- Drug—Patent Medicine Interactions
- Drug Testing
- Drug Utilization Review (DUR)
- Electrolytes Supplementation
Areas of Expertise
- Ethanol Blood Levels—Clinical Effect and Impairment
- Forensic Toxicology
- Geriatrics
- Harmful or Fatal Events—Drug Related
- Herbal Remedies
- Hospitals
- Hyperalimentation
- Insecticides
- Insulin Resistance
- Intravenous Fluids
- Long QT Syndrome
- Long Term Care
- Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
- Medical-Legal Issues
- Medical Records
- Medical Practice Standards—Drug Prescribing and Monitoring
- Medication Errors
- Narcotic Intoxication
- Nursing Homes
- Nursing Practice Standards—Drug Administration and Monitoring
- Organophosphates
- Overdosage
- Over the Counter Drugs—OTC
- Pain Management
- Patent Medicines
- Peripheral Intravenous Nutrition
- Pharmaceutical Care
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Pharmacokinetics
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacotherapy
- Pharmacy Malpractice
- Pharmacist's Responsibilities and Obligations
- Pharmacy Standards of Practice
- Predisposing Factors—Adverse Drug Events
- Psychotropics
- Quality Assurance
- Serum Drug Levels—Therapeutic Effects and Toxicities
- Standard of Care
- Substance Abuse
- Total Parenteral Nutrition—TPN
- Toxicology
- Pharmocogenetics—Developing Field of Medicine
- Pharmacogenomics—Developing Field of Medicine
Areas of Emerging Importance
Drugs, alcohol and narcotics expertise at your fingertips
Dr. Binion uses his professional training and 35+ years patient care experience - in conjunction with a private investigator’s mindset and perspective - to conduct a thorough analysis of the case data. He will provide you with a clear, concise and easily understood summary of his findings. Depositions and/or courtroom expert testimony are available if needed.
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