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Following the testimony of Dr. Richard Moore on Monday, Dr. David Kulber testified on Tuesday, May 24, regarding the treatment of Johnny Depp's severed fingertip. Kulber was the surgeon who treated Depp's injury after the 2015 incident in Australia.
Kulber, who was associated with the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 2015 had operated on the Pirates of the Caribbean star's hand after Depp had severed some of his fingertip's tissue. In the trial, the surgeon spoke about Depp's injury in a very brief testimony.
However, unlike Dr. Moore, Dr. Kulber did not refute Depp's claims of being injured when Heard allegedly threw a vodka bottle at him. Neither did the surgeon address anything about Amber Heard's claims that Depp self-mutilated his fingertip.
What did Dr. David Kulber say about Johnny Depp's fingertip injury in 2015?
According to his testimony, Kulber operated on Depp's injured hand around March 20, 2015. The surgeon claims to have reconstructed the actor's finger and mentioned that Depp "had a fracture in his finger and soft tissue loss."
Addressing the alleged violent outbursts of Johnny Depp following his fingertip injury, Dr. David Kulber said:
"He couldn't move his third and fourth fingers ... It's a more bulkier splint right after the surgery. So ... it gets in the way ... He could attempt to grab someone. But I don't know how successful he would be."
Kulber also discussed the 58-year-old Kentucky native's bout with infection following the severance of his fingertip. Following his deposition by Johnny Depp's legal team, Amber Heard's lawyer Ben Rottenborn questioned the surgeon whether the actor's cast could have prevented him from damaging the actress' closet. Kulber replied:
"He had his other hand available."
During his testimony, Dr. David Kulber also insinuated that he had not seen any damages to Depp's cast at the time. Any damages to the cast might have helped link the actor with any vandalization of properties done after sustaining the injury. This marked an end to the surgeon's testimony with no further questions directed at him. As mentioned before, the doctor's testimony did not dispute claims of the incident from either party.
What is known about Dr. David Kulber, who reconstructed Johnny Depp's severed finger following the incident in 2015?
Dr. David A. Kulber is a cosmetic plastic surgeon who sub-specializes in breast augmentation and hand-related corrective surgery or repair surgeries. According to his profile in US News, Kulber has over 21 years of experience in this field, following his graduation from Chicago Medical School/Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.
The board-certified surgeon also holds a fellowship from New York University Grossman School of Medicine, as well as residencies at New York-Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia and Cornell Campus) and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (in Los Angeles). Throughout his career, Dr. David Kulber has received the recognition of Top Doctors: LA Area and consecutively won the CMS Stage 1 EHR in 2012 and 2013.
