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Panel qualifies Department expert despite defense objections about nursing-home experience
Summary
The panel voted to qualify Dr. Jill Espelon as the Department's psychiatric expert after extended questioning about whether her experience prescribing psychotropic drugs in nursing-home dementia cases is sufficiently similar to the facts at issue; the vote passed 3–0 among the panelists present, and the panel asked an absent member to review the record before fact finding.
The Practitioner Licensing and Investigation panel on June 13 qualified the Department of Public Health’s expert, Dr. Jill Espelon, following a contested voir dire in which defense counsel argued she lacks direct APRN experience treating elderly nursing-home patients with dementia.
Dr. Espelon, who identified herself on the record as a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, described a career that includes an RN background in a nursing-home setting early in her career, teaching psychopharmacology to undergraduate nursing students, private practice and work under contract with the judicial branch. She said…
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