MSW, LCSW-C, CCM, CDMS, CLCP, CRC
Shelby Dubato serves as MalcolmDubato’s Managing Member managing the financial and daily operations of the business, to include monitoring of referrals, retention contracts for expert cases, training protocols, and intra-office procedures.
Ms. Dubato is a Certified Life Care Planner [CLCP] experienced in completing extensive case file reviews; performing in-depth client interviews; conducting home visits in conjunction with a physical and/or occupational therapist; preparing medical case management correspondence to treating providers to determine future medical needs and costs; coordinating services; conducting research for cost analysis; and preparing formal Life Care Plan reports.
Ms. Dubato possesses experience working on cases for catastrophically injured adults and children with injuries including but not limited to: birth injury, developmental delays, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, chronic pain, amputation, neurologic injury, burn injury, psychiatric/psychological trauma, and orthopedic trauma.
Ms. Dubato is licensed by the Maryland Department of Health as a Licensed Certified Social Worker – Clinical [LCSW-C]. This licensure allows her to provide psychotherapy to our clients experiencing mental health conditions in order to assist them in regaining their functioning, including returning to work. She specializes in providing desensitization therapy to injured workers who have developed Anxiety Disorders, such as phobias, and Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders, such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD], resulting from a traumatizing work event.
Ms. Dubato is a Certified Case Manager [CCM] with experience providing medical case management services to injured workers within the Maryland and Washington, D.C. Workers’ Compensation industry. Ms. Dubato is a Maryland Registered Rehabilitation Service Practitioner with the Maryland Workers’ Compensation Commission [Practitioner #N2422]. She is a Certified Disability Management Specialist [CDMS] with experience assisting clients with other disability service systems such as, but not limited to: Social Security Disability Insurance, Ticket to Work Program, Long-Term Disability, and Labor Unions.
Ms. Dubato’s employment experience, along with her credential as a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor [CRC] allow her to serve as a Vocational Expert. She possesses experience in reviewing plaintiff’s employment files, education history, and wage/tax documentation; conducting in-depth vocational interviews of plaintiffs; completing labor market research; and utilizing the labor market research to prepare Vocational Expert Opinion reports.