Our Team
Experienced Medical Legal Consultants
Christina Sanders, MSN, RN, ANP-BC
Partner
Nurse Practitioner Expert Witness
Partner
Christina Sanders brings 19 years of clinical nursing experience to Vera Juris. She leads the firm's medical-legal consulting activities and is responsible for managing all client casework. Additionally, Christina is a nurse practitioner expert witness for both plaintiff and defense cases.
Christina was educated at Johns Hopkins University where she earned a bachelors and masters degree in nursing. During nursing school, Ms. Sanders received multiple awards including those for clinical expertise and academic excellence. She is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as an adult nurse practitioner. She also received a bachelor’s degree in government with a concentration in public policy from the University of Notre Dame before starting nursing school. In 2003, she enrolled at the Vickie Milazzo Institute and completed the course work and examination to become a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant.
Christina has been a registered nurse since 1998 and has worked as a nurse practitioner since 2000. She started her nursing career in the emergency department at Johns Hopkins Hospital. After completing her Masters in 2000, she began practicing as an adult nurse practitioner specializing in cardiology with a large private practice group in New Jersey. From 2004 to 2012 she worked for Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California in outpatient cardiology. In the spring of 2012 she joined San Diego Cardiovascular Associates, a private practice, and focuses on both inpatient and outpatient cardiovascular medicine. Clinical areas of interest include coronary artery disease, angina, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, heart attack, stroke, cholesterol, obesity and cardiac stress testing.
Christina was educated at Johns Hopkins University where she earned a bachelors and masters degree in nursing. During nursing school, Ms. Sanders received multiple awards including those for clinical expertise and academic excellence. She is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as an adult nurse practitioner. She also received a bachelor’s degree in government with a concentration in public policy from the University of Notre Dame before starting nursing school. In 2003, she enrolled at the Vickie Milazzo Institute and completed the course work and examination to become a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant.
Christina has been a registered nurse since 1998 and has worked as a nurse practitioner since 2000. She started her nursing career in the emergency department at Johns Hopkins Hospital. After completing her Masters in 2000, she began practicing as an adult nurse practitioner specializing in cardiology with a large private practice group in New Jersey. From 2004 to 2012 she worked for Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California in outpatient cardiology. In the spring of 2012 she joined San Diego Cardiovascular Associates, a private practice, and focuses on both inpatient and outpatient cardiovascular medicine. Clinical areas of interest include coronary artery disease, angina, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, heart attack, stroke, cholesterol, obesity and cardiac stress testing.
Sean Sanders
Partner
Partner
Sean Sanders brings more than 25 years of broad corporate experience to Vera Juris. He leads the firm's business operations and is responsible for marketing, client development, accounting and administration.
Sean’s business acumen has been developed through leadership roles in marketing and operational positions at Hewlett Packard, EMC, Novell and American Airlines. He began his career as a management consultant at Accenture.
His educational credentials include a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
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Our Associates: Experienced Nurse Expert Witnesses & Legal Nurse Consultants
Our people are our greatest asset. The Vera Juris team consists of
nurse expert witnesses
,
legal nurse consultants (LNCs)
and medical litigation support personnel. Medical-legal consulting requires a specific skill set that not all health care professionals possess. All Vera Juris’ team members have been vetted for their critical analysis and reasoning skills, clinical experience and communication aptitude. Additionally, our nurse experts have backgrounds in every medical specialty. This allows us to bring focused expertise to every case.
A nurse expert witness is a licensed, registered nurse who is knowledgeable on the relevant standards of care for the nursing profession. The nurse expert performs a critical analysis of the medical records for a case and arrives at an opinion on whether or not the standard of care for nursing was breached. This expert may be called on to provide testimony regarding any deviation from the standard.
A legal nurse consultant is a licensed, registered nurse who performs a critical analysis of patient health care records and outcomes for medically related legal cases. This role is a specialty practice within the nursing field that uses a nurse’s expertise with the health care system to provide informed opinions on health care delivery to attorneys and other parties involved in medical litigation.
A nurse expert witness is a licensed, registered nurse who is knowledgeable on the relevant standards of care for the nursing profession. The nurse expert performs a critical analysis of the medical records for a case and arrives at an opinion on whether or not the standard of care for nursing was breached. This expert may be called on to provide testimony regarding any deviation from the standard.
A legal nurse consultant is a licensed, registered nurse who performs a critical analysis of patient health care records and outcomes for medically related legal cases. This role is a specialty practice within the nursing field that uses a nurse’s expertise with the health care system to provide informed opinions on health care delivery to attorneys and other parties involved in medical litigation.
