With a successful 40-year career in spine, pain/interventional pain, sports concussion, and neurorehabilitation practice in NYC and Long Island, Dr. Butani is able to provide medical expert testimony. Trained in orthopedics, anesthesiology, rehab medicine, pain medicine, electrodiagnostic medicine, and brain injury medicine, Dr. Butani is board-certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation by the ABMS.

A ranked university athlete and avid golfer, he is highly perceptive of sports injuries. Dr. Butani was a physician for the U.S. Golf Open 2002. As a police surgeon, he has extensive experience in treating and evaluating disabilities in law enforcement personnel.

Dr. Butani’s extensive experience and knowledge in these areas is effective in providing med-legal expertise in:

• Personal injury

• Disability and employment-related litigation

• Standard of care

• Medical malpractice involving neurological, musculoskeletal pain and brain injury cases

• Interventional pain and non-operative orthopedics

Dr. Butani can help critique treating clinician and opposing expert reports and help attorneys in deposing and cross-examining opposing experts. Dr. Butani has expertise in providing the fact finder/Court/Jury with evidence-based, critical, and relevant scientific medical data and statistics in a non-alienating, jargon-free manner and in cross-examining opposing experts.

Dr. Butani provides:

• IMEs

• Records reviews

• Cost-conscious written reports

Dr. Butani provides expert witness testimony for both plaintiff and defense. He will provide expert opinion on:

• Causation

• Apportionment

• Permanent disability

• Future treatment, including future treatment costs

Attorneys can be provided confidential consultations based on review of records or summaries about the strengths and weaknesses of their case.

Areas of Expertise:

Dr. Butani’s areas of expertise include stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, cauda equina syndrome, cerebral palsy, and spina bifida. He is experienced in cases involving slip and fall injuries, chronic pain, cervical spine/whiplash, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), fibromyalgia, neurorehabilitation, anoxic brain injury, long-term care, and catastrophic injury. His knowledge extends to spasticity, disability evaluation, neck and back conditions, gait abnormalities, neurogenic bowel and bladder, as well as traumatic brain injury (TBI) and mild TBI (mTBI). He also has expertise in reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), CRPS, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).

• Medical Toxicology/Industrial Medicine/Emergency Medicine
• Associate Professor USC
• Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Medical Toxicology, Emergency Medicine & Occupational Medicine. Expertise in medical toxicology/neurotoxicology/emergency medicine.

Education:

Graduate (Medical) School:

• University of Bombay, Bombay, India.
• Doctor of Medicine, (M.B.B.S.), 1970-1975

Post Graduate Studies:

• University of Illinois School of Public Health. Chicago, Illinois, M.P.H., 1979-1980.
• Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. Pathology, 1977-1978.
• Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine 1978-1982.
• Fellowship Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. Clinical Toxicology, 1985-1988

Honors and Awards:

• Teacher of the Year, Department of Emergency Medicine, LAC+USC Medical Center, 1996-97
• Licensure: California, 1983 (Certificate, A-40499)

Board Certification:

• American Board of Medical Toxicology, 1992
• American Board of Preventive (Occupational) Medicine, 1989
• American Board of Emergency Medicine, 1988 Recertification, 1998
• American Board of Internal Medicine, 1983

Academic Appointments

• Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, 1997-present
• Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, 1990-1997
• Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, 1989-1990
• Clinical Instructor in Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1984-1988

Employment

– Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, LAC+USC Medical Center, 1990-present

– Attending Physician, Department of Medicine, USC University Hospital, 1992-present

– Attending Physician (part-time), Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, 1988-1990

– Attending Physician (part-time), Medical Division Employee Health, Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, 1984-1990

– Attending Physician, Department of Occupational Medicine, Cook County Hospital, 1982-1990

– Attending Physician, Section of Clinical Toxicology, Cook County Hospital, 1982-1990

– Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, 1982-1990

– Attending Physician, Department of Internal Medicine, Cook County Hospital, 1982-1990

Publications:

Peer Review

• 1. Kyriacou, D.N., Newton, E.J., and Jain, A. Imported cholera in a 31 year old Peruvian female. Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 11:717-72, Nov. 1993
• 2. Jain, A. and Lin, S. Digoxin, Hyperkalemia and Kidney Failure. Annals of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 29:694-7, May 1997
• 3. Jain AL, Swadron SP Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, gamma-butyrolactone, and 1,4-butanediol. Pediatr. Emerg. Care. 2001 Aug; 17(4): 314-6
• 4. Jain AL, Robertson GJ, Rudis MI Surgical issues in the poisoned patient. Emerg. Med Clin North Am. 2003 Nov; 21(4): 1117-44

Non-peer Review

• 1. Jain, A and Newton E. Withdrawal Syndromes eMedicine