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Elliott Bernard Oppenheim, MD/JD/LL.M. Health Law
Former Physician in Family Practice**/Emergency Medicine
**Formerly Board Certified in Family Practice by the AMERICAN BOARD OF FAMILY PRACTICE

Education

1965	Pennsbury High School, Yardley, Pennsylvania
1969 B.A.	Occidental College, Los Angeles, California 9/65-6/69
1973 M.D.	University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine Irvine, California 9/69-6/73 [with Clinical Clerkships at Oxford University (thoracic surgery) Harvard University (general surgery), Stanford University (cardiovascular surgery)]
1995 J.D.	Detroit College of Law, Detroit, Michigan 8/92-6/95 Jurisprudence Prize in Constitutional Law
1993-Summer School	University of Washington, School of Law- Seattle Washington
1995-Summer School	Wayne State University, School of Law- Detroit Michigan
1996 LL.M. Health Law	Loyola University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois
Thesis: Before and After: Spoliation of Evidence in Medical Negligence Litigation Supervising Editor - Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judges Note, Calvin v Chater: The Right to Subpoena the Physician in SSA Cases; Conflict in the Circuits over the Interpretation of 20 C.F.R 404.950(d)(l), 15 J. NAT. ASSOC. ADMIN. L. JUDGES 143 (1996).

Current

CEO/President - coMEDco, Inc. - a national corporation specializing in medical-legal analysis, expert referral, medical and legal litigation related research including evidentiary problems, research support, discovery, and trial consultation in advocacy techniques and strategy.

Medicine

Family Practice and Emergency Medicine - 18 years active practice (1974-1992); formerly BOARD CERTIFIED American Board of Family Practice, Diplomat No. 18445; ACLS, APLS, ATLS Certifications Former Member ACEP, AAFP, AMA

Over 150 medical publications

Major Medical-Legal Consultation Projects

State v. Johnson, No. 97-1-01564-9 SEA, SUP. CT. WA. (King Co., Wa.) (1997) - criminal defense of plastic surgeon charged with multiple counts of rape involving patients.
Cherukuri v. Shalala, 1999 WL 257693 (6th Cir. 1999) - achieved dismissal of charges in defense of physician accused of violation of EMTALA. (with Mr. Chad Perry, Attorney, before the Departmental States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit).

Recent Medical or Law Publications

Staying out of Court: Cost-Free ways to Risk-Proof your Practice, HIPPOCRATES 26 (December 1999).
The Law of Evidence and the Medical Record, 2(2) J.MED.L 167 (1999).
Released Against Advice, HIPPOCRATES 20 (September 1998).
The Medical Record: A New Mexico Lawyer's Litigation Guide, 4(2) BAR J. (NM) 15 (Summer 1998).
When Doctors Doctor the Doctor's Record: Spoliation of Evidence, 26 N.M. TRIAL LAWERY 1 (1998).
A Doctor's Perspective on what the Law Should be for End-Of Life Issues, 2 (1) J.MED.L. 11 (1997).
EMTALA: It's First Decade; A Retrospective Analysis of 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd, 43 (4) MED. TRIAL TECH. Q. 77 (1997).
Scoping Out the Medical Record: The Key to Understanding Medical Care, 51 WA. ST. B.J. 22 (1997).
A Review of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, 85 ILL.BARJ. 212 (1997).
The Baseline: Detecting the Doctored Medical Record, 14(1) Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy 1 (November 1996).
A Trial Lawyer's Guide to the Medical Record, 84 Ill. Bar J. 637 (1996).
The Risks of Doctoring Records, HIPPOCRATES 34 (September 1996).
Note, Calvin v. Chater: The Right to Subpoena the Physician in SSA Cases; Conflict in the Circuits over the Interpretation of 20 C.F.R. 404.950(d)(1), 15 J. NAT. ASSOC.
ADMIN. L. JUDGES 143 (1996).
Honorable Mention -- National Writing Contest of International Association of Defense Counsel (1995) for Physicians Against Their own Patients: What Happened to the
Privilege? 63(2) DEF. COUNSEL J. 254 (1996).
The Trial Lawyer's EMTALA Manual, 11(4) PROF. NEG. L. REP. 73 (1996).
EXAMINING MEDICAL RECORDS: How to Know What is Said When you Read What the Doctor Wrote, 82 ABA J. 88 (1996).
Keeping it on the Record, 28(2) EMERGENCY MEDICINE 87 (1996).
Components of a Hospital Medical Record - A Checklist, 10 Prof. Neg. L. Rep. 196 (1995).
The Medical Record Explained, 6(3) OHIO TRIAL 7-12 (1995).

Quoted:

Brad Burg, Fined $100,000 for Dumping Patients Couldn't Treat, MEDICAL ECONOMICS 112 (November 22, 1999) (reporting the Cherukuri case).

* coMEDco, Inc.^TM Briefly Stated Monographs

*EMTALA: It's First Decade - A Retrospective Analysis of 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd © (Terra Firma, Santa Fe, NM 1996) 65 pages, 250 footnotes.

*BEFORE AND AFTER: Spoliation of Evidence in Medical Negligence Litigation © (Terra Firma, Santa Fe, NM 1996) 175 pages, 600+ footnotes

*Book/Treatise

The Medical Record As Evidence, 900 pages, (Lexis Law Pub. Co., Charlottesville, VA 1998) first book in the field of medical evidence. To order direct from Lexis Law Publishing: 800-562-1197; item #66063

Blashfield: Automobile Law and Practice, vv. 9&10 (Medical Legal Preparation) (approx. 1500 pages) (West Group, Eagan, MN) (in preparation- Publication date approx. June 2000).

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