Board Certified Allergy & Asthma Expert Witness 

Dr. Accetta provides consultations and expert medical opinions and testimony for attorneys, insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry.
During the last 25 years he has testified for both plaintiffs and defendants and written over 150 expert medical reports. Since 2004 he has testified at trial and deposition more than 13 times. His expert opinions are based on sound scientific principles, evidence based medicine and his more than 30 years’ experience as a physician in private practice. The quality of his reports has helped his clients settle numerous cases and avoid the additional costs of a trial. He has never failed a Daubert challenge. 
New cases are evaluated as expeditiously as possible and he maintains good communications with his clients.
Dr. Accetta has worked as a medical review physician for one of Massachusetts’s largest health insurance company and as a physician auditor for a publicly traded medical appeal company.
He has testified in two cases involving alleged pharmaceutical patent infringement.
Dr. Accetta’s interest in occupational and environmental medicine began during his allergy & immunology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic when he was a member of a team conducting a site visit at a large steel manufacturing facility in Cleveland, Ohio. In the early 1990s, he evaluated a number of health care workers at a major Boston area teaching hospital who alleged that they had developed a variety of medical conditions including asthma, latex allergy, sinusitis and multiple chemical sensitivity due to poor indoor air quality. In one of these cases in which Dr. Accetta was the defense expert (Theresa Canavan’s Case) the Massachusetts Supreme Court overruled a verdict for the plaintiff and adopted in part the United States Supreme Court's reasoning in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993) regarding the admissibility of an expert’s testimony.

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About Dr Accetta

Dr. Accetta is board certified in allergy and immunology and pediatrics. He began his medical career as a pediatrician in a rural Massachusetts community. After completing his allergy and immunology training at the Cleveland Clinic, he returned to Massachusetts and has worked as an allergist and immunologist in private practice since 1986. In 1991 he founded Allergy & Asthma Care, P.C., in Taunton Massachusetts.  
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Dr. Accetta testified for us in a federal real estate dispute that involved significant water intrusion and mold. He was responsive throughout the litigation process, able to provide helpful insights and suggestions, and very credible on the stand. Dr. Accetta was also able to explain the impacts of mold exposure in a way that made the concepts easily accessible to the jury. We enjoyed working with him.

Dr. Accetta is board certified in allergy and immunology and pediatrics. He began his medical career as a pediatrician in a rural Massachusetts community. After completing his allergy and immunology training at the Cleveland Clinic, he returned to Massachusetts and has worked as an allergist and immunologist in private practice since 1986. In 1991 he founded Allergy & Asthma Care, P.C., in Taunton Massachusetts. Currently the practice employees three physician including Dr. Accetta. The practice cares for patients of all ages who have asthma, other chronic lung conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), environmental nasal allergies (allergic rhinitis), sinusitis, environmental, drug and food allergies and dermatologic conditions such as eczema (atopic dermatitis), hives, swelling (angioedema), latex and irritant dermatitis due to chemicals. He was an early adopter (1994) of electronic medical records. 
He is a past president of the New England Society of Allergy and the Massachusetts Allergy and Asthma Society. For nine years he was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Environmental and Occupational Health, including two years as Chairperson of the Committee. He coauthored a chapter on occupational allergy for a major medical textbook on occupational medicine. He also served as the physician member on the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy for nine years

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