Legal Focus:

• Healthcare
• Long Term Care
• Medical Staff Representation
• Medical Malpractice Defense
• Professional Liability Defense
• Risk Management Education

Cal’s Healthcare practice includes:

• Physician and hospital malpractice defense.
• Medical Staff representation (credentialing, peer review, Fair Hearings, general medical staff issues).
• Risk Management Education.
• Long Term Care issues (defense of Adult Protective Services Act cases; protection of quality assurance data; general regulatory issues).
• State licensing board representation, with special emphasis on the representation of impaired healthcare providers.
• General healthcare issues.

His professional liability practice has included legal malpractice defense and defense of other professionals in civil and administrative proceedings.

Cal has defended medical malpractice cases across the state of Arizona.

Cal philosophy is, “Education is the purest form of risk management.”

He holds a faculty position at the University of Arizona College of Medicine as a Lecturer, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Phoenix Campus and sits on the Intersessions Committee, focusing on the non-clinical curriculum for MS3s.

Cal serves on the Board of Directors for LeadingAge Arizona (Formerly Aging Services of Arizona).

Professional Memberships and Achievements:

•American Bar Association.
• State Bar of Arizona.
• State Bar of Texas.
• Maricopa County Arizona Bar Association.
• Defense Research Institute.
• American Health Lawyers Association.
• Arizona Association of Healthcare Lawyers.
• Samaritan Health System Continuing Medical Education Committee.
• EMTALA Task Force for Hawaiian hospitals.
• Martindale-Hubbell’s highest AV rating.
• Selected by his peers as one of "The Best Lawyers In America" in Health Care Law, Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation and by Phoenix Magazine to appear in its annual "Top Lawyers" issue.

Education:

• Texas Tech School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1975. Order of the Coif.
• University of Texas at Austin, B.B.A., 1971.

Representative Publications & Presentations:

"Protecting Medical Group Quality And Risk Data."
"The Impaired Physician In Your Group."
"Credentialing and Peer Review -- A Primer for Physicians and Hospital Administration."
"Credentialing and Peer Review -- A Primer for Non-Healthcare Attorneys."
The "Independent Medical Staff."
Arizona Claims Management Handbook
"EMTALA: Taming the COBRA."
"BOMEX: Friend or Foe?"
"The Open Meeting Law Paradox."
"Wrongful Death Litigation: Avoiding the Landmines."

Cal has addressed numerous conferences at the invitation of organizations, including:
American Academy of Pediatrics.
American Society of Healthcare Risk Managers.
Arizona Society of Healthcare Risk Managers.
Arizona Association of Community Health Centers.
Arizona Association Medical Staff Services.
American College of Healthcare Administrators.
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association.
American Health Lawyers Association.
Defense Research Institute.
State Bar of Arizona.
Arizona Institute of Continuing Legal Education.
Barrow Neurological Institute.
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson and Phoenix campuses.
Banner Health System.
CIGNA HealthCare.
The Medical Quality Commission.
Unified Medical Group Association.
Maricopa County Medical Society.
Maricopa County Bar Association.
MICA.
FHP.

Court Admissions:

• 1975, Texas; 1976, Arizona.
• Federal District Court for the District of Arizona.
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Cal’s presentations have focused on EMTALA, long term care liability, managed care liability, credentialing, peer review and corporate liability, professional liability defense, courtroom technology and a myriad of risk management topics.

Personal Information:

Cal was born in Austin, Texas.
He is married and has three adult children.

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