Admitted
1986, California and U.S. District Court, Central, Northern and Southern Districts of California
Law School
University of San Diego, J.D., 1985
Law School Graduation Year
1985
College
Franklin & Marshall College, B.A., 1982
Memberships
State Bar of California; Association of Southern California Defense Counsel; National Health Lawyers Association; American Academy of Hospital Attorneys of the American Hospital Association; California Society for Health Care Attorneys; Southern California Association of Healthcare Risk Managers.
Biographical
Author: Withholding and/or Withdrawing Life Sustaining Treatment-Policies and Procedures, 1991. Co-Author: Healthcare Provider Liability...Some Wind is Taken Out of the Sails of MICRA, CC&F's Legal Update, Winter 1991; Preserving the Integrity of MICRA's $250,000 Non-Economic Damages Cap, C&C Legal Update, Summer 1993; Malpractice Cap Limits Injury Compensation, Orange County Business Journal, Special Healthcare Report, February 1994; California Supreme Court Limits Hospital Employers' Liability for Employees' Sexual Misconduct,' C&C's Legal Update, Spring 1996. Speaker, Southern California Physicians Council Annual Meeting, May 1991, Recent Judicial Interpretations of MICRA. Case Contributor for the National Health Lawyer Association's Publication, Health Law Digest. Hospital Medical Staff Lecturer: Legal Pitfalls of an Obstetrician's Practice, Mission & Community Hospitals of Huntington Park, January 1995; Hospital Medical Staff Lecturer: Cardinal Rules of Depositions, Fountain Valley Regional Medical Center, April 1995 and Monterey Park Hospital, May 1995; Hospital Medical Staff Lecturer: Informed Consent -- What Every Physician Needs to Know, Chapman Medical Center, February 1996; Monterey Park Hospital, March 1996 and Santa Ana Hospital Medical Center, April 1996; Hospital Medical Staff Lecturer: Avoiding Spoilation of Evidence Claims, Woodruff Community Hospital, April 1996; Informed Consent -- Potential Physician Liability, Coastal Communities Hospital, July 1996; Medical Documentation in a Hospital Setting, Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and Medical Center, October 1996; The Medical Record: A Physician's or Nurse's Best Defense, Chapman Medical Center, November 1996; Peer Review and California Evidence Code ยง1157, Mission and Community Hospitals of Huntington Park, November 1996. Developed and Presented a National Training Program entitled The Medical Record: Friend or Foe? for Apria HealthCare, Inc., January 1997.