Michelle Colder Carras, Founder and CEO
Dr. Colder Carras is a public health researcher and digital health specialist trained in epidemiology, public mental health, development and evaluation of games for health, evidence development and statistical modeling. Her work in the area of behavioral addictions, particularly gaming disorder, has led to international collaborations and presentations, multiple media interviews, and innovative partnerships between academia, industry, government, and nonprofits. She specializes in research and policy on video games and health but also has expertise in creating actionable research and recommendations for other health-related areas, such as pandemic business management, digital health, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and nonprofit programming. She is currently available to serve as an expert witness in videogame addiction, gaming disorder, and related topics. For more information, see her CV, or see descriptions of her work on Project and Products.
Alexis Carras, Co-Founder
Dr. Alexis J. Carras is a board-certified anesthesiologist with over 25 years of full-time clinical practice and more than 20 years of experience as a consultant and expert witness in anesthesiology. He has reviewed over 75 medico-legal cases and has provided expert testimony in approximately 15 depositions as well as in court. His clinical expertise spans all major subspecialties of anesthesiology, including high-risk surgical settings and outpatient procedures, and he has held multiple leadership positions in his practice as well as at the state level. His recent expert witnessing expertise includes patient selection and preparation, nerve injury, surgical complications, and airway loss. He serves as both a plaintiff and defendant expert.
He served as a governor-appointed physician member of the Maryland Board of Physicians from 2013 to 2017, where he participated in licensing and disciplinary oversight. He is currently the Secretary of the Maryland Board of Anesthesiologists. His public service and decades of experience gives him an in-depth perspective on medical malpractice and physician oversight.
Dr. Carras is a full partner in a private anesthesiology group and serves as one of a select few Anesthesiologists-in-Charge at Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Center, where he oversees day-to-day anesthesia operations, coordination of physician and CRNA staff, patient preparation, and problem-solving in a general hospital setting. He practices in multiple hospital and ambulatory surgery centers, where he provides a full complement of general anesthesia services, regional anesthesia, and sedation. He also supervises and mentors CRNAs as well as anesthesia residents and new employees of the practice.
Dr. Carras graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his anesthesiology residency at Johns Hopkins. He has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications and brings extensive experience in clinical judgment, case analysis, and standard of care evaluation to his expert witness work. For more information, see his CV.
June H. Kim, Research Scientist
Dr. June H. Kim is an epidemiologist with a background in substance use and behavioral addictions. His research has focused on the role of stressful life events on alcohol craving, differences in nonmedical prescription drug use by educational attainment, and the association between gambling and risky sexual behaviors among inner-city adolescents.