MD-JD's.

Plaintiff's Attorneys  MD/JD's in Medical Practice Dual Degree Programs Defense Attorneys   Peer Review Defense.   Other David Faris, M.D.,LLB. Links

   I have assembled this list piecemeal as I come across information on professionals with both degrees. As I would estimate that the number of
dual degreed professionals is on the order of 1% of doctors and lawyers, this list is clearly just a small sampling. I hope that this list may be of
some use  for locating people with similar backgrounds and interests.

    Other lists MD/JD's:  The American College of Legal Medicine adds appoxinatey 20 member MD-JD's or DO-JD's a year.

Medical Malpractice Defense Attorneys:
Stephan R. Paul ,Philadelphia, Pa. White & Williams (B.C. Pediatric Oncology)
Harley Kaufman , New York, N.Y.  Medical Malpractice eZine .
Erle E. Peacock Raleigh, N.C.  (B.C. Surgery, Plastic Surgery)
Robert H. Gans, M.D.,LLB. .Cleveland, Oh. (Ophthalmology)
Maria S.. Rose ;  New York, N.Y.

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Elliott B. Oppenheim,   Tesuque, NM   (LLM  Health Law)
Herbert O. Phillips IV,   Chapel Hill,  NC (Orthopedic Surgery) Articles: Expert witnesses program: Practicing M.D. perspective
Charles E. Rawlings, Winston-Salem, NC

Kenneth Grosslight, Blythewood, SC  Anesthesia, Cardiovascular Anesthesia, Neuro Anesthesia

Henri-AnnNortman

Other:
Marlowe Schaeffer,   Drexel Hill, PA Remote Medical managment services to Hospitals Nationwide
David Coffee. -        Drexel Hill, PA    Remote Medical managment services to Hospitals Nationwide
Richard E.Moses -  Cherry Hill, NJ  (Gastroenterology) Dessen, Moses & Sheinoff lLegal, health and medical-legal issues
Louise B. Andrew, Litigation Stress Managment, President: Coalition and Center for Ethical Medical Testimony
Allan Tobias.Walnut Creek, Ca  Health Law:  Medical Staff Bylaws, investigations, hearings, and  credentialing and privileging issues; Patient Advocacy
William J. Morton -Quality Assurance and Utilization Review, Credentialling, Malpractice and Medical Products Liability.
Joe R. McFarlane , , San Antonio, Tx - Health Law / Managed Care (Ophthalmology)
Paul Zagar , SUNY Brooklyn, M.D. 1989;  William & Mary, J.D. 2002  Darby & Darby, Intellectual Property Law

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Dual Degree Programs:  American Association of Medical Colleges - MD/JD Programs   .
     Baylor College of Medicine.
     Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine .
     University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine.
     Duke University School of Medicine .
     Harvard Medical School. Dual Degrees 
     Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health.
     Southern Illinois University School of Medicine .
     Stanford University School of Medicine..
     University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine .
     University of Florida College of Medicine .
     University of Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana-Champaign.
     Mayo Medical School (507)-284-3627Arizona State U (480)965-3246. Mayo students eligible for 2 Year JD; 1 Year Master of Legal Studies
     UMDNJ--New Jersey Medical School .Camden, N.J.
     UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, N.J. 
     University of Arkansas College of Medicine .
     University of Illinois College of Medicine-UrbanaChampaign.
     University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine .
     University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
     University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine .
     University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine .
     University of Texas Medical School at Galveston.JD/MPH.. 
     West Virginia University School of Medicine.
     Vanderbilt University School of Medicine .
     Yale University School of Medicine .

OTHER LINKS:
M.D./J.D.  Don't do it - Edward S. Hume, M.D.,J.D..
Dueling degrees: Why some doctors are getting a JD ... American Medical News Jan. 28, 2002.
 

David Faris,  M.D.,  Columbia University P&S  1954; L.L.B. , Harvard 1962

                                       ---   IN MEMORIUM - March 9, 2001---

    Dave was one of the most modest and low key people I have ever known. I met Dave in 1975 through our common
love of music at the  Orchestra Society of Philadelphia . In 1985, when I started medical school, Dave always liked to
give me advice about surviving the experience.

    Although I'd always known that Dave had graduated from medical school, he didn't confide in me that he had graduated
from Harvard Law School until 1999 when I was a law student. Dave was offered the newly renamed "Juris Doctorate" when
he graduated from Harvard Law School, but turned it down in favor of the more modest traditional "Bachelors" degree in law.

   Dave was always full of surprises. In 1999, when I first played Haydn string quartets with Dave, he told me that  it was the first time that he had played them as a cellist, but that he had known the music through years of playing four handed  piano arrangements with his wife Carol. I had been unaware that Dave was a fairly serious pianist until that time. As Carol now tells it, both she and Dave played piano and cello, but when they got married it was decided that she would be THE  pianist and he  would be THE cellist, and that was how it was until the end.

     Dave chose not to have a funeral. I hope he would approve of this small rememberance in cyber space.
   

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