Clayton Surgical Services, LLC

Clayton Surgical Services is pleased to provide expert opinions on cases involving melanoma and rare skin cancers. Our lead expert has been in clinical practice since 1991, and has worked as a full-time university faculty member, a chairman-level employee of a university-affiliated academic medical center, and in private surgical practice. He has lived, worked in, and evaluated cases from multiple states. He continues to maintain a busy melanoma specialty practice, providing both surgical and non-surgical (including chemotherapy, immunotherapy and other systemic treatments) care to over 300 new melanoma patients a year.

Our expert is board certified in general surgery and is credentialed by all of his current hospitals for both surgery and chemotherapy administration. After general surgery training, he served as a Senior Staff Fellow at the National Cancer Institute, and then joined the Surgery Department faculty at a top-ten medical school.

In addition to clinical practice, he is past Chairman of Surgery at an urban area community hospital, served on that hospital's surgical peer review committee for four years (last two as chair), and has held various other hospital and integrated health system administrative positions. He continues to give talks on melanoma to professional and community groups regionally, nationally and internationally on various aspects of melanoma research and patient care. He is widely published in melanoma clinical research and actively participates in multi-center clinical trials.

Our lead expert has analyzed melanoma and rare skin cancer cases for plaintiffs and defendants; composed Expert Reports that identified relevant issues central to the patient's care and the proposed or ongoing litigation, including key literature references as needed.