NACHC Community Health Institute and Expo
How to Develop a Successful Medical-Legal Partnership at Your Health Center
Chicago, IL
Monday, August 24, 2009 3:00pm
Presenters
Patrick Egan, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Dorchester House Multi-Service CenterMichelle Garvin, Esq., Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP
Ellen Lawton, Esq., Executive Director, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
Samantha Morton, Esq., Executive Director, Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston
Additional Details
The session will run from 3pm-4:30pm.
Just as the medical profession advocates preventive health care, so too by entering into these partnerships with health care providers, the legal profession can advance a 'preventive law' strategy for addressing clients’ social and economic problems and thereby improve clients’ health and well-being, especially those from low-income and other under-served communities.
American Bar Association Resolution, August 2007
