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The ELM curriculum has been developed and maintained by a distinguished
faculty of physician-attorneys and medical-liability experts. With
decades of clinical and instructional experience in analyzing and
resolving medical liability problems, the ELM faculty brings unparalleled
expertise to all of the coursework.
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· Sal Fiscina, MD/JD, Founder
· Clark Watts, MD/JD
· Jeff Shane, MD/JD
· Dorothy Gregory, MD/JD
· Ann Abke, RN/ARM
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Dr. Fiscina is a graduate of Harvard University, the University of Rochester Medical School, and The George Washington University National Law Center. He is a former Deputy Chairman of the Department of Legal Medicine at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. For more than 30 years he has been a professorial lecturer in Legal Medicine and is currently on the adjunct faculty at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Georgetown University Law Center. He has authored several textbooks in law and medicine.
Dr. Fiscina is a former president of the American College of Legal Medicine. He is Chairperson of the American Board of Legal Medicine. Dr. Fiscina is the founder of Education in Legal Medicine (ELM), a company that has developed a web-based, interactive, unified curriculum of multi-modality courses for educating and training physicians in medicolegal matters. Dr. Fiscina has developed special instruments for assessing and managing risks associated with clinical practice. In addition, Dr. Fiscina has been a consultant to various entities, such as the National Practitioners Data Bank.
Dr. Watts is a graduate of the University of Texas, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and the University of Missouri School of Law. He completed his neurosurgery residency at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, and became Professor and Director of the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Missouri Medical School in Columbus.
He has been a Director of the Association of Neurological Surgeons, President of the Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons, Governor of the American College of Legal Medicine and editor of Neurosurgery, the journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He holds both a Texas medical license and membership in the Texas Bar. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas Law School where he regularly teaches a legal medicine course.
Dr. Shane is a graduate of Boston University, Boston University School of Medicine and The George Washington University National Law Center. He is a Board Certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He was the Chief of the Division of Medicolegal Consultation at the Department of Legal Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. He was a consultant for The Department of Justice and other government agencies on federal malpractice claims and lawsuits. For more than 30 years he has lectured to Hospitals, Medical Associations and Law Schools on Legal Medicine topics, giving more than 100 presentations.
Dr. Shane is a Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine, and is Certified by the American Board of Legal Medicine. An experienced trial attorney, he has spent more than 20 years in trial practice before Federal and State Courts, and has argued before appellate courts in Maryland and Florida. He is a retired United States Air Force Colonel.
Dr. Gregory is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Cornell University, Cornell University Law School and the University of Buffalo School of Medicine where she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. She practiced as a board-certified internist before serving as medicolegal officer in the Department of Legal Medicine at the Armed forces Institute of Pathology. She has been a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Georgetown University Medical School, and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of California-Irvine. While serving in the Veterans Administration, she was a liaison member of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine. She also conducted seminars for physicians and attorneys on professional liability, risk management and ethics in patient care, and was responsible for training and continuing education of staff physicians.
She is a former president of the American College of Legal Medicine and is board-certified in Legal Medicine. She is on the editorial boards of several medicolegal journals. She continues to work with various hospital ethics committees.
Ms. Abke is a graduate of St. Mary’s Hospital
School of Nursing, Aquinas College, and the Insurance Institute
of America. She has extensive experience in both nursing and risk
management. She is currently a Loss Prevention Specialist with Catholic
Healthcare West (CHW). She has also served as Director of Risk Services
and Compliance for St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center and
as Risk Management Education Program Supervisor for Mutual Insurance
Company of Arizona.
Ms. Abke is a former President of the Arizona Society for Healthcare
Risk Management and the Michigan Society of Healthcare Risk Management.
She has served on the nominating committee for the American Society
of Healthcare Risk Management and has been a member of the Risk
and Insurance Management Society, and the Association of Occupational
Health Professionals.
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