| Johns Hopkins, UB Form New Center for Medicine and Law |
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MICUA Matters Spring 2011
The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Baltimore School of Law will jointly launch what is believed to be the nation’s first academic center for medicine and law that focuses on the health care provider. The center will foster meaningful collaboration between the two professions, so that doctors will better understand the legal issues that affect their daily practice while lawyers will gain a greater appreciation for the real-world issues involved in the practice of medicine.
Frederick Levy, a Johns Hopkins emergency doctor who also holds a law degree, will serve as the senior co-director of the new center. Gregory Dolin, also a physician and attorney, will serve as the other co-director. Dolin will join the faculty of the University of Baltimore School of Law this year. The center is expected to open in July.
“The new center’s goal will be to promote more understanding between the two professions. In today’s world, doctors and lawyers are used to facing each other in a courtroom,” says Levy, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins. “This center will be aimed at shifting some of the focus from the courtroom to the classroom.”
Initiatives that the center expects to develop include: graduate-level training and educational programs in legal medicine for attorneys and physicians; a set of core competencies in law and medicine for health care providers; the nation’s first peer-reviewed journal in law and medicine; and health law policy and position statements. |