Expert witness · Traumatic brain injury
Objective, quantifiable eye-movement recordings that support or refute a history of TBI — including the cases where imaging is silent and the complaints are not.
Millisecond recordings. Nationwide via RightEye, or on-site.
2019
Inventor of the Year
Virginia Commonwealth University
2019
FDA Breakthrough Device
RightEye Vision System
2022
Impact Award
Federal Laboratory Consortium
The problem
Life-altering head injuries still arrive in court as qualitative stories — a diary of symptoms, a normal MRI, a fight about credibility. We offer expert testimony plus data that is objective, quantifiable, and repeatable. The same recording can support a real injury or refute one that is not.
A patented method, trained on thousands of VA subjects, that answers the question both sides actually have.
Saccades are not a pain diary. Coaching does not produce a convincing TBI recording — and trying often proves the opposite.
Cloud-connected RightEye devices, often with 24-hour turnaround. Or Dr. Gitchel travels to the plaintiff.
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The expert
Biomedical engineer. Two decades on the neurophysiological wiring of eye movements. Research at Veterans Affairs covering thousands of subjects and more than thirty neurologic conditions — with accuracy, on those batteries, considerably better than a specialist clinician at the bedside.
Knowledge
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Not every head injury is the same injury. The recording can place a subject along a severity continuum, not just a yes/no.
A short diligence list for plaintiff and defense firms that are tired of qualitative, speculative TBI opinions.
Coaching can change a pain diary. It cannot rewrite the brainstem circuits that generate saccades.
Discovery calls, fee schedules, and testing holds. Plaintiff or defense. Remote or in person.