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ELM Editorial Board
The ELM curriculum has been developed and maintained by the 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 expertise to all of the coursework.
Sal Fiscina, M.D., J.D., Founder
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. With more than 35 years experience in Legal Medicine, he has authored several textbooks on law and medicine. He is currently on the adjunct faculty at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Georgetown University Law Center.
Dr. Fiscina is a past president of the American College of Legal Medicine and former Chairperson of the American Board of Legal Medicine. Dr. Fiscina has developed special instruments for assessing and managing risks associated with clinical practice. In addition, Dr. Fiscina has extensive experience in Medical Malpractice Litigation.
Jeff Shane, M.D., J.D.
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.
Clark Watts, M.D., J.D.
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 Columbia.
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.