Andrew Bokarius, MD, QME, CBIS, FAWM
Board-Certified in Emergency Medicine
Andrew V. Bokarius, MD, QME, CBIS
Medical-Legal Evaluations Built on Evidence
Emergency Physician | Medical–Legal Expert | Brain Injury Specialist
When the medical issues span multiple organ systems, emergency medicine
provides a uniquely comprehensive perspective. Every evaluation is objective,
evidence-based, and designed to answer the questions that matter.
Why Emergency Medicine?
Most medical experts evaluate one organ system.
Emergency physicians evaluate all of them.*
Every shift requires integrating cardiology, neurology, pulmonology, endocrinology, infectious disease, toxicology, trauma, and other internal medicine conditions into rapid, evidence-based medical decision making. This wide-ranging clinical perspective is invaluable in complex medical-legal cases where multiple conditions interact.
Drawing on broad expertise in acute and chronic disease management, along with extensive experience performing complex Independent Medical Evaluations and Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund (SIBTF) evaluations, Dr. Bokarius provides thorough, evidence-based medical opinions in complex medical-legal matters involving overlapping diagnoses and multi-system disease.
*Ophthalmological and Psychiatric conditions are usually deferred to appropriate subspecialists.
Services Offered
Complex Medical Legal Cases
Multi-System Injury
Cases involving multiple interacting medical conditions that cannot be adequately evaluated by a single organ-system specialist.
Traumatic Injury
Blunt trauma, falls, motor vehicle collisions, crush injuries, industrial accidents, polytrauma, and delayed medical complications.
Catastrophic Injury
Complex injuries involving multiple organ systems, prolonged hospitalization, extensive future medical needs.
Wrongful Death
Independent review of medical records, causation analysis, emergency care, hospital management, and medical factors contributing to death.
Workplace Fatalities
Medical analysis of occupational deaths, industrial accidents, toxic exposures, cardiac events, heat illness, and other work-related fatalities.
Complex Internal Medicine
Cases involving, cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disorders, gastrointestinal disease, infectious disease, endocrine disorders, renal disease, and other chronic medical conditions.
Emergency Medicine
Emergency department care, acute illness, trauma management, diagnostic decision-making, standards of care, and emergency physician expert testimony.
Toxicology & Environmental Exposure
Chemical exposure, carbon monoxide, inhalational injury, workplace toxins, medication reactions, overdose, and environmental illness.
Brain Injury Expertise
As a Certified Brain Injury Specialist, Dr. Bokarius provides mechanism-based analysis and longitudinal evaluation and management of acquired brain injuries. Focus is on complex cases either for Workers’ Compensation or personal injury cases.
Brain Injury
Medical evaluation of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), concussion, post-concussion symptoms, and mTBI management.
Speaking, Education & Advisory
Dr. Bokarius is available for select speaking and advisory roles spanning the clinical and medico-legal interface of brain injury, concussion, medical-legal education, SIBTF, human performance, and wilderness medicine. Engagements are tailored for professional, legal, academic, and operational audiences seeking clarity, rigor, and practical application.
Available for Evaluations
Qualified Medical Evaluations (QME)
Throughout California
Agreed Medical Evaluations (AME)
Throughout California
Independent Medical Evaluations Nationwide
Subsequent Injuries Benefit Trust Fund (SIBTF)
Throughout California
Expert Witness Evaluations,
Personal Injury, Third Party Litigation, Nondeclared Expert Consultation, Multisystem Approach and Analysis
Nationwide
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Meet Dr. Bokarius
Dr. Andrew V. Bokarius is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician, Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME), Certified Brain Injury Specialist (CBIS), and expert witness specializing in complex medical-legal evaluations. He serves as an attending emergency physician at a trauma and stroke receiving center, Medical Director of IbisMed Inc.,, and Expert Medical Reviewer for the Medical Board of California.
Dr. Bokarius earned his Bachelor of Science in Physiological Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, his Doctor of Medicine from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, and completed his Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Chicago, where he trained at a Level I trauma center. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and is certified as a Qualified Medical Evaluator by the California Department of Industrial Relations.
Drawing upon extensive experience performing Independent Medical Evaluations and Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund (SIBTF) evaluations, Dr. Bokarius provides objective, evidence-based medical opinions supported by meticulous record review, comprehensive examination, current medical literature, and sound clinical judgment. His reports are recognized for clearly explaining complex medical issues in a manner that is understandable, medically defensible, and useful to attorneys, judges, and fact finders.
