Expert Witnesses
Dr. Frank B Fisher
Email: ffisher@painreliefnetwork.org
Phone Number: 707.764.3139
Dr. Fisher is a Harvard-trained general practitioner who has dedicated his career to caring for medically underserved populations. His appropriate treatment of patients suffering from chronic pain resulted in his 1999 arrest and prosecution on charges of multiple murders, drug dealing, fraud, and conspiracy. Following his exoneration, he has served as an expert witness in numerous cases brought against other similarly accused physicians.
Other Publications
Pain Killer. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin. Winter 2006;32-37.
How Expert Testimony Distorts The Standard Of Care For Pain Management With Opioid Analgesics. Practical Pain Management. September/October 2005.
Evaluating The Risks Of Unwarranted Prosecution Part I: The Criminalization Of Pain Management. The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Fall 2004.
The Role Of Controlled-Release Opioids In The Treatment Of Chronic Pain, The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Summer 2004.
Interpretation of “Aberrant” Drug-Related Behaviors. The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Spring 2004
Dr. Alexander Deluca
Phone Number: 212.787.4464
Email: doctordeluca@painreliefnetwork.org
Alexander DeLuca was born in NYC in 1955. He attended Vassar and received his M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed Montefiore's Residency Program in Social Medicine, became board certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine and an ASAM fellow, chaired ASAM's Review Course 1998-2000, and earned an MPH degree from Columbia University in 2005.
Dr. DeLuca is an independent consultant specializing in addiction and pain medicine. His primary work and interest, at present, is providing defense consultation and medical expert-witness services, especially regarding pain-treating physicians caught up in unfair drug-war prosecutions, and in cases of possibly comorbid chronic pain and substance use disorder.
As Senior Policy Analyst and board member of the Pain Relief Network he is also an advocate for chronic pain patients, and for the physicians who would treat them with the respect and dignity due any sufferer in our society, were it not for the distortion of medical norms, ethics and practice brought about by decades of serving, under threat of severe punishment, law enforcement imperatives. Alex is also a long-time advocate of harm reduction and is a friend and informal advisor to the leadership of Moderation Management, Inc., having been more active in that organization 2000-2003.
