Distinct physiology
Not just adult medicine in a smaller body.
Pediatric anatomy, pharmacology, and physiologic responses differ materially from adults, especially in perioperative, critical care, and emergency settings.
Physician capability statement
Physician-led pediatric medical-legal consulting for serious matters involving children.
This downloadable statement reflects the current public positioning draft: physician-founded, physician-led pediatric consulting built to help counsel navigate the clinical complexity of serious matters involving children.
The firm
Built for matters where pediatric context materially changes the analysis.
Pediatric MedLegal Partners (PMLP) is a physician-founded and physician-led consulting firm built to help attorneys navigate the clinical complexity of serious matters involving children.
Children are not simply small adults. Their physiology, development, and long-term medical needs are fundamentally different from adult patients — and so are the questions that arise in litigation. Issues of liability, causation, future care, and damages often require a pediatric clinical lens that general medical consultants may not provide.
PMLP was founded to close that gap through pediatric-specific clinical judgment, structured expert coordination, and physician-led review when the pediatric context changes how the matter should be assessed.
Founded by
Adam Broussard, MD · Pediatric Anesthesiology
Ayush Gupta, MD · Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Website
pediatricmedlegal.com
Why pediatric specificity matters
Three reasons pediatric cases require a different clinical lens.
The strongest parts of the draft capability statement are preserved here and carried into the downloadable PDF.
Long time horizons
Future needs unfold over years of development.
Injuries to children can compound over decades. Future medical needs, lost earning capacity, and life care cost projections require pediatric-specific reasoning.
Subspecialty precision
The clinical question has to match the right pediatric lens.
Matching the right pediatric subspecialist to the right question requires physician-level understanding of the field and its subspecialty boundaries.
Expert-witness review and coordination
Physician-led identification and coordination of qualified pediatric medical experts for independent case review, record analysis, and potential deposition or trial testimony.
Life care planning coordination
Coordination of pediatric-aligned life care planning support, including future therapeutic needs, developmental considerations, long-term care projections, and subspecialty cost inputs.
Future medical needs analysis
Assessment of long-term pediatric medical needs for damages and settlement purposes, including review of proposed future care scope and clinical reasonableness.
Rebuttal and multidisciplinary review
Review of opposing life care plans, damages opinions, and pediatric medical assumptions, with assembly of multidisciplinary pediatric review when narrower subspecialty input is needed.
Adam Broussard, MD
Dr. Broussard is a fellowship-trained pediatric anesthesiologist and Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (FASA). He completed fellowship at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and completed his anesthesiology residency and medical degree at LSU Health Sciences Center.
He serves as a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children's Hospital New Orleans and has held academic appointments at LSU Health and Tulane School of Medicine. He previously served at the University of Oklahoma, including as Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship Program Director.
Clinical focus areas include pediatric perioperative care, airway management, pain management, and anesthetic risk in medically complex children.
Ayush Gupta, MD
Dr. Gupta is a fellowship-trained pediatric emergency medicine physician with professional focus in delayed diagnosis, emergency department triage and trauma, sepsis, resuscitation, acute pediatric illness, and non-accidental trauma.
His work centers on pediatric emergency department standard of care, high-acuity clinical decision-making, child-abuse recognition, and the early clinical events that may shape liability and causation disputes.
His specialty perspective is particularly relevant to acute care liability, pediatric emergency standard of care, injury mechanism review, and future-care questions after significant pediatric events.
How PMLP works
From general inquiry to appropriate next-step handling.
The five-step workflow from the draft was retained, but adapted to stay public-safe for the website.
Start with a non-confidential description of the matter.
Counsel contacts PMLP with a general description of the matter and the clinical questions involved.
Brief fit and scope discussion.
PMLP reviews the inquiry and schedules a brief call to assess fit, discuss the pediatric clinical issues, and determine whether the firm can provide meaningful support.
Move off the public website before substantive intake.
If the matter is a fit, PMLP executes an engagement letter and moves the matter to an approved secure off-website channel for confidential intake.
Next step
Download the statement, then start the conversation.
PMLP serves plaintiff and defense counsel. If this positioning fits the matter, the next step is a brief general introductory conversation.
Resources
Download the capability statement for internal circulation, then use the website contact flow for a general inquiry.