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ALM EXPERTS: New Jersey Edition 2020LM EXPERTS: New Jersey Edition 2020 MEDICAL RESUMES
Harold Bursztajn JEFFREY M. EPSTEIN, MD
ACCREDITED PSYCHIATRY & MEDICINE Specializing in Spinal Cord Stimulation and Revision
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL ALUMNI & FACULTY
51 John Street, Suite 4, Babylon, NY 11702
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138 Phone: (631) 669-0500 Fax: (631) 661-0463
(617) 492-8366 FAX (617) 441-3195
E-MAIL: [email protected] www.ybnpain.com
WEB SITE: www.forensic-psych.com
Areas of Malpractice & informed consent
Expertise: Employment: disability (ADA), worker's compensation, discrimination & harassment NEUROSURGERY AND PAIN MANAGEMENT
Malingering, misattribution, & medical mimics
Emotional & physical damages: conscious pain & suffering, PTSD As a neurosurgeon and pain management specialist, Dr. Epstein underwent a rigorous testing and
Neuropsychiatry, brain injury, & pain management peer evaluation process in order to demonstrate his exceptional competency in the field of
Suicide assessment and prevention
Substance Abuse and addiction neurosurgery. When you have Dr. Epstein as your neurosurgeon, you can rest assured that you
Psychopharmacology are in the qualified hands of a physician who has been deemed an expert in his field by even his
Product liability & toxic tort: individual & class actions peers.
Criminal justice & diminished capacity
Family issues: divorce & custody, testamentary capacity, undue influence
Fitness for professional duty including teaching, clinical, and legal EXPERIENCE THAT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
Professional ethics and boundary maintenance MEDICAL RESUMES
Forensic psychiatric autopsy The best way that a physician perfects his craft is through experience. A 1979 medical school
Daubert-informed evaluations of opposing experts’ methodology graduate, Dr. Epstein has been practicing neurosurgery for many decades. He frequently shares
his knowledge as a lecturer and proctor, both nationally and internationally, for spinal cord
Firm/Expert Harold J. Bursztajn, M.D., Harvard Medical School Co-Founder of the Program in Psychiatry and stimulation. Enjoy the reassurance that your neurosurgical procedure is being performed by an
the Law and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, is active in patient care, teaching, and expert physician who has successfully performed the same procedure hundreds of times.
research. He is President of the American Unit of the UNESCO Bioethics Chair. Recognized by his
colleagues as a doctor’s doctor and a doctor’s teacher, his numerous honors include the AREAS OF EXPERTISE
prestigious Harvard Medical School Award for Excellence in Mentoring. His range of special
interests includes informed medical decision making, neuropsychiatric impairments, pain
management, malpractice prevention, and medical product liability. He consults to plaintiff and • Neurologic back and neck pain
defense counsel, insurance companies, and state and federal agencies as an expert in general and • Complex regional pain syndrome/ RSD
forensic psychiatry, informed consent, and professional ethics. He also has nationwide experience • Cervical and lumbar stenosis
as a distinguished expert qualified to testify in state and federal courts.
• Cervical and lumbar herniated discs
Education/ Dr. Bursztajn is an honors graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical • Cervical, thoracic, and lumbar fractures
Training: School. • Spinal cord stimulation
• Spinal fractures
Presentations/ In addition to his clinical practice involving patient care, he has published numerous • Spinal fusion
Publications: articles and chapters in standard texts in medicine, medical decision making, clinical
ethics, psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and forensic psychiatry. • Hydrocephalus
• Sciatica
He has also authored a number of books, including: • SI (Sacroliac) joint fusion
"Divided Staffs, Divided Selves: A Case Approach to Mental Health Ethics" • Chronic pain
"Medical Choices, Medical Chances: How Patients, Families and Physicians
Can Cope with Uncertainty" • Spondylosis and Spondylolisthesis
"Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law" • Failed back surgery
"Psychiatric Ethics” for UNESCO Chair in Bioethics • Carpal tunnel Syndrome
• General nervous system-related pain disorders
Comments: A complete curriculum vitae and local and national references are available by • Brain tumors
request or can be accessed at www.forensic-psych.com. All inquiries are confidential.
• Tumors of the spinal cord
• Metastatic brain and spinal cord tumors
Full cv upon request
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