Experts

A.M. Gamboa, Jr. is a Senior Analyst and the Chief Executive Officer of Vocational Economics, Inc., a forensic vocational economic consulting company. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, specializing in vocational counseling. He completed postdoctoral study in vocational rehabilitation and the economics of disability at the University of Cincinnati, University of Louisville, Purdue University, and University of Nevada at Las Vegas. In addition, he completed post-doctoral study at The University of Chicago where he was awarded an MBA.

Dr. Gamboa has worked for thirty years as a vocational counselor, researcher, tenured professor at the University of Louisville, vocational expert with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and vocational economic analyst. He is the author and co-author of numerous scholarly articles published in a variety of refereed journals. He is a frequent speaker to professional groups interested in the economics of disability.

Dr. Gamboa pioneered work in the area of assessing loss of earning capacity for infants, children, and persons with mild traumatic brain injury. In 1987, while on sabbatical as a professor at the University of Louisville, he developed the first worklife expectancy tables for persons with a disability. The New Worklife Expectancy Tables are in their sixth revision and were most recently published in 2006. In addition, he developed Vocational Assessment of Lost Earnings (VALE), a computerized vocational information system comprised of government data, to assess earning capacity in cases of disability.

He has provided Vocational Economic Assessments pertaining to monetary damages associated with disability to both plaintiff and defense attorneys throughout the United States and has provided expert testimony in over 40 states. Dr. Gamboa has worked on thousands of cases involving a variety of impairments and has coordinated economic damage analyses on actions involving mass tort litigation.