We are thrilled to announce the formation of a National Medical Advisory Board, by MLPC, to cultivate richer healthcare involvement in medical-legal partnership and support current and future physicians and health care leaders in advocacy in a broad range of clinical settings.

The Board is led by Founding Director Barry Zuckerman, and is co-facilitated by National Medical Director Megan Sandel and National Associate Medical Director David Keller.  Sixteen Board Members and six Assistant National Medical Directors were recruited from partnerships nationwide for their commitment to advocating for vulnerable populations.  Board members represent pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, oncology and geriatrics and bring expertise in various components of successful medical-legal partnership.  Board members embody a full range of clinical perspectives and are doctors, nurses, social workers and public health leaders.

The Board met for the first time at the Medical-Legal Partnership National Summit in Kansas City, Missouri and will participate in quarterly conference calls to provide guidance to MLPC regarding:

·    Cultivating new and existing medical involvement across clinical settings;

·    Raising the profile of medical-legal partnership nationally;

·    Strategic participation in national and local medical and legal conferences; 

·    Progress of the MLP Working Groups; and

·    Innovations in medical-legal partnership.

All Board members will serve a term of one-year.

In addition to serving on the Board, Associate National Medical Director David Keller and the six Assistant National Medical Directors will also participate in MLP Working Groups, represent the MLP Network at national conferences, publish and disseminate articles related to medical-legal partnership and provide technical assistance to burgeoning partnership sites in their region and clinical setting.

MLPC is enthusiastic about this new opportunity to foster both medical engagement and new innovation in medical-legal partnership.