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Deep Dive 2025

General IR

Level 200 (intermediate)

Deep Dive Lab

Ticketed Event
Session Type: Development Course

Deep Dive: Becoming an Expert Witness

Saturday, March 29, 2025
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
Location: Music City Center, 101 AB
CE: 2

Content Level: 200 (intermediate)

The speakers will discuss specific challenges related to serving as an expert witness as an Interventional Radiologist. This course will cover everything from being contacted by counsel for a potential case, providing a case review, delivering a deposition, taking the stand in a court proceeding, and how to handle a cross examination. In addition, we will explore some of the moral and ethical ramifications of being an expert witness.

Note: Tickets are required to attend. Add the Deep Dive to your SIR 2025 meeting experience during the registration process.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify skills and strategies critical to providing an effective case review.
  • Learn about creating a fee schedule and some common pitfalls.
  • Recognize effective techniques to provide a deposition beneficial to the client.

Presentations:

  • 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM CT
    "You interested in hearing about a case?”: questions to ask when you are first contacted

    Speaker: Brian Funaki, MD, FSIR – University of Chicago

  • 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    What is standard of care?!?!

    Speaker: Timothy W. Clark, MD, FSIR – University of Pennsylvania; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

  • 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM CT
    How to provide a thorough and complete case review

    Speaker: Andrew Gunn, MD – University of Alabama At Birmingham

  • 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    What makes a good expert witness: an attorney’s perspective

    Speaker: Matthew H. Cline, JD (he/him/his) – Cumberland Litigation, PLLC

  • 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    Ethical considerations for the IR expert witness

    Speaker: Viknesh S. Kasthuri (he/him/his) – Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

  • 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Surviving the cross-examination

    Speaker: Ziv J. Haskal, MD (he/him/his) – Univ of Virginia

    Speaker: Brian Funaki, MD, FSIR – University of Chicago

  • 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Which side are you going to take? – A panel discussion with case examples

    Speaker: Luke R. Wilkins, MD, FSIR – University of Virginia