| Biography |
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. He developed the only worklife
expectancy tables for persons with a work disability, as well as Vocational
Assessment of Lost Earnings (VALE), a computerized vocational information
system comprised of government data, to assess earning capacity in such
cases. Both products are used by numerous experts throughout the United
States in defining the vocational and economic consequences associated with
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. |
