Professional Staff
David Lukcso, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. David Lukcso is Chief Medical Officer for Medical Advisory Services, a division of The NMAS Group. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from State University of New York at Stony Brook after being elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He completed his residency in internal medicine at The New York Hospital Cornell University Medical Center in New York City. He subsequently received his Masters in Public Health from the Medical College of Wisconsin, and completed his residency in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Lukcso began his career at the Cornell University Medical Center as a Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine and Attending Physician at The New York Hospital's Emergency Department. While at The New York Hospital, Dr. Lukcso was involved in treating first responders from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was then recruited to be the Mid-Atlantic Regional Medical Director of occupational and environmental health centers for the largest national provider of integrated medically-based services. In that capacity he provided medical oversight and was responsible for the management of 40 physicians and health care providers delivering employment-related injury, occupational healthcare, and other services in 14 health care centers located in 3 states and the District of Columbia.
Dr. Lukcso has outstanding experience as a practicing physician, an expert in both Internal Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a program director and a consultant. During his career he has worked with hundreds of clients regarding thousands of medical claims: personal injury, workers' compensation, medical malpractice and environmental disease. He has provided medical director services to clients, developed examination protocols and assisting with ADA, FMLA and disability issues.
Notably, Dr. Lukcso has been involved in many investigations including a 2 ½ year Indoor Environment and Air Quality Epidemiologic study of a secure Department of Defense campus and a food chain safety, foodborne and bioterrorism illness response investigation for a nationwide hospital system. He also developed medical protocols that were used in the evaluation and treatment of over 800 anthrax-exposed workers in 2001 who received treatment at the medical facilities overseen by Dr. Lukcso. Additionally, Dr. Lukcso worked with the State of Maryland Medical Director of Bioterrorism in developing smallpox vaccination protocols and strategies, and provided medical care to those State employees who had adverse reactions to the smallpox vaccination.
Tee Lamont Guidotti, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Tee Guidotti is an international consultant in occupational and environmental health. He retired in 2008 as Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at The George Washington University, where he was Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the School of Public Health and Health Services and Director of the Division of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology of the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences; he also held cross-appointments in epidemiology, health policy and pulmonary medicine. His career has included 14 years as Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Alberta, where he was named a Killam Annual Professor. Dr. Guidotti has received numerous other honors and awards and has served as President of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Dr Guidotti has medical specialty credentials in Canada (FRCPC in occupational medicine), the US (board certification in occupational medicine and pulmonary medicine) and the UK (FFOM). He is also a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology. He trained in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and occupational medicine at Johns Hopkins after completing medical school at the University of California at San Diego and an undergraduate degree in biology at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Guidotti is the author or a principal co-author of numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers and discussion pieces and has edited and coauthored several books, including The Canadian Guide to Health and the Environment, and Basic Environmental Health, a popular textbook sponsored by the World Health Organization and published by Oxford University Press. He is co-editor of Science in the Witness Stand: Evaluating Scientific Evidence in Law, Adjudication and Policy. He has two books currently in production.
Dr Guidotti's main professional interests include: strategic planning on issues of health and sustainability, security and emergency management at the enterprise level and economic sustainability and business continuity. In Occupational Health, Dr. Guidotti has a special interest in occupational health services management, inhalational toxicology and occupational lung disease, occupational health and hazards of firefighters and other first responders and the oil and gas industry, including toxicology of hydrogen sulfide and other sulfides. He has special interests in: air quality, especially oxides of nitrogen and air toxics; ecosystem and human health; risk science, with special interests in community risk perception, "risk anticipation" and trans-cultural risk communication; and child health and the environment. Additionally, Dr. Guidotti has a special interest in Evidence-based medical dispute resolution – the application of scientific evidence to law, adjudication and policy.
Ghazala Kazi, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Ghazala Kazi is a staff physician in MAS Group. She has broad experience in occupational medicine and public health. She received her medical degree from Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan in 1984. She received her Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in 1990 from The George Washington University in Washington DC. In continued pursuit of her interest in Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM), she completed her residency in OEM at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. She is board certified in Occupational Medicine and is a certified Independent Medical Examiner.
While in Pakistan she was the Occupational and Environmental Physician for local glass and cotton factory workers in Hasanabdal Pakistan. In addition to her OEM responsibilities, she provided general medical care and preventive services to the workers and their families. She interfaced with the World Health Organization regarding the morbidity data of the population she served.
Dr. Kazi moved to the United States of American in 1987. Upon completion of her MPH, she joined Maryland's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene where she spent seven years working as an epidemiologist in the Infectious Disease and Environmental Health's AIDS Administration division. In her capacity as epidemiologist, she worked extensively with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), state and local health departments.
Dr. Kazi completed a year of general medicine at Maryland General Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She was recruited to serve as the Medical Director for the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health and Employee Health at St. Joseph Hospital in Parkersburg, WV. Dr. Kazi has served as the Medical Director for Saint Mary's Correctional Center in Saint Mary's, WV. She then joined Physicians Care of Marietta as their Associate Medical Director of Occupational Health.
Dr. Kazi has been evaluating workers with work related injuries and illnesses since 1985. She has extensive experience in evaluating injured and ill workers. She began performing Independent Medical Examinations (IME) in 2001 in West Virginia. Since then she has performed more than a thousand Workers' Compensation IMEs at the request of employers, insurance carriers, and claimants' attorneys. Dr. Kazi moved to the Greater Washington/Baltimore area in 2005 and started conducting IME in Maryland as well as West Virginia.
Debby O'Connell, R.N., B.S.N., C.E.N., L.L.N.C.
Debby O'Connell manages the legal nurse consultant group for Medical Advisory Services. She received her B.S.N. degree from York College of Pennsylvania and earned certification as a legal nurse consultant through the National Alliance of Legal Nurse Consultants and has also received certification through the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants.
Prior to joining Medical Advisory Services, Ms. O'Connell worked as an independent legal nurse consultant, and clinically in school health, emergency care, critical care and critical care patient transports. Ms. O'Connell has a broad range of experience in review and analysis of medical records, timelines and chronologies, research, and analyzing medical/nursing standards of care as well as environmental exposures in litigation matters ranging from personal injury to wrongful death for both plaintiff and defense.
Nancy J. Layton, B.S.N., R.N., L.N.C.C.
Nancy Layton is a member of the legal nurse consultant team at Medical Advisory Services. She received a B.S.N. degree from the University of Iowa, and earned certification as a legal nurse consultant from the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants.
Prior to joining Medical Advisory Services, she provided technical assistance to private and government insurers in matters concerning medical services utilization, quality assessment and critical issues in coverage decisions. Areas of particular expertise include medical records abstraction, chronology development, identification of pre-existing conditions, creation of timelines, analysis of medication use and effects, and summary of medical/scientific literature.
Building Science Experts
Allan E. Burt, MBA
Allan Burt, is a Principal and the Vice President of Field Operations at NMAS.
Prior to joining NMAS, Mr. Burt already had a distiguished career as a private business owner of a mechanical contracting company and a key executive for the national design-build division of Total Site Solutions/Encompass Global Technologies, part of Encompass Service Corporation, a publicly held, $4.5 billion mechanical and electrical contractor.
Mr. Burt has expert knowledge of building mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems, as well as building envelopes. He is a trained commercial arbitrator and mediator and has been appointed to the Panel of Neutrals at the American Arbitration Association for general, mechanical and residential construction disputes. He has been the project executive to more than $500 million of design/build/maintain projects over his career. Mr. Burt's multi-faceted expertise enables him to understand construction projects from their inception through occupancy. In conjunction with BHS physicians, he has developed "medical engineering" means and methods investigating and resolving indoor environmental matters, after building occupant health complaints have been received.