Opinion ID: 2294040
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Heading: Dr Mark Geier

Text: With respect to Dr. Geier, Judge Berger found that, in addition to being a board-certified genetic counselor, he had been proffered as an expert in genetics, vaccine injuries, differential etiology of autism, mercury toxicity, medicine, urinary porphyrin analysis and epidemiology; that he is not an epidemiologist or toxicologist, with no degree or board certification in either field, and that nothing regarding his knowledge, skill, training, experience, or education made him qualified to testify under Maryland Rule 5-702: Dr. Geier's credentials as a medical doctor and a genetic counselor are not a foundation sufficient for him to offer an opinion that thimerosal-containing vaccines cause autism. Judge Berger also noted that, in at least one federal case, Dr. Geier had been deemed unqualified to testify as an expert regarding the impact of the administration of thimerosal. See, e.g., Redfoot v. B.F. Ascher & Co., 2007 WL 1593239, -12, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40002, -37 (N.D.Cal.2007) (excluding the testimony of Dr. Geier under Federal Rule 702 in a case where he was proffered to testify that the Ayr Saline Nasal Mist was defective in design because it contained thimerosal, which may have caused the plaintiffs' child's autism).