VAIDIK, J.
. . . According to Indiana Code section 34-18-10-23, the [medical malpractice] panel’s expert opinion “is admissible as evidence in any action subsequently brought by the claimant in a court of law. However, the expert opinion is not conclusive, and either party, at the party’s cost, has the right to call any member of the medical review panel as a witness. If called, a witness shall appear and testify.” Id. § 34-18-10-23.
Cases such as this one, where a non-physician health care provider serves on a medical review panel and gives a minority opinion as to medical causation, take Long one step farther. That is, if a nurse (or some other non-physician health care provider) serves on a medical review panel and provides a minority opinion as to medical causation, is his or her opinion admissible in court to create a genuine issue of material fact in a summary judgment proceeding or to serve as substantive evidence at trial? According to Section 34-18-10-23, the answer is yes. However, according to Evidence Rule 702, the answer may be no. When there is a conflict between a statute and a rule of evidence, the rule of evidence prevails over any statute. See Humbert v. State, 664 N.E.2d 356, 357 (Ind. 1996). Thus, in such a circumstance, Evidence Rule 702 would prevail, and the nurse’s (or other non-physician health care provider’s) opinion as to medical causation would be inadmissible at either the summary judgment stage or trial.
Nasser concedes that expert testimony is required in this case. [Footnote omitted.] Since we have already determined in Long that there is a significant difference in the education, training, and authority to diagnose and treat diseases between physicians and nurses and that the determination of the medical cause of injuries for purposes of offering expert testimony is beyond the scope of nurses’ professional expertise, Nurse Busacca is not qualified to give her expert opinion as to medical causation in this case. Indeed, under Evidence Rule 702(B), Nurse Busacca does not have the qualifications to do so. Because Nasser did not designate any other evidence on the issue of causation, the trial court properly entered summary judgment in favor of St. Vincent Hospital. We therefore affirm the trial court.
RILEY, J., and CRONE, J., concur.