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Andrew is Senior Counsel in the firm’s Health Law Practice Team, bringing over two decades of experience. Andrew frequently represents professional healthcare providers in investigations and disciplinary proceedings by the New York Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) and the New York Education Department Office of Professional Discipline (OPD). Andrew has also negotiated numerous favorable resolutions for physicians at Fair Hearings and in disputes with Medical Executive Committees.
Andrew received his M.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1984 and was board certified in Internal Medicine for twenty years. He was a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Legal Medicine.
Andrew received his M.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1984 and was board certified in Internal Medicine for twenty years. He was a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Legal Medicine.
Prior to joining Lippes Mathias, Andrew was a founding member of a Syracuse-based law firm, CCB Law, concentrating on healthcare law, professional license defense, and litigation.
A Persian Gulf veteran and former Navy Flight Surgeon, Andrew was honorably discharged from the United States Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander. He then attended Syracuse University College of Law, where he graduated summa cum laude, and received the Justinian Society Award for Highest Academic Average. A staff editor of the Syracuse University Law Review, his note, "Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa: A Call for Privilege for Self-Disclosure of Error in the Setting of Primary Medical Education" won the American Health Lawyers Association's 2002 Student Writing Competition.
Articles & Publications
- "Licensing Boards in Laws of Medicine: Core Legal Aspects for the Healthcare Professional," Amirala Pasha ed., 2022, Springer
- "Legal Issues in Operating a Med-Spa in New York State," NYSBA Health Law Journal 16:3, Fall 2021
- "Representing Licensed Professionals in Criminal Matters: Special Issues of Concern Involving Persons Licensed Under Title VIII of the Education Law," NYSBA New York Criminal Law Newsletter, 18(2), 9 - 11, Fall 2020
- "Legal Issues in Hospitalist-Hospital Relationships," chapter in Comprehensive Hospital Medicine, Mark V. Williams, M.D. et al., eds., Elsevier/Saunders, Philadelphia, 2007
- "The Stark Reality of Being a Hospitalist: Who Knew Taking Care of Patients Would Be a Self-Referral," 8 The Hospitalist, November-December 2004
- "The Reawakening of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Filling the Void in Conventional Biomedicine," 20 Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy 329, 2004
- "Practicing Procedures on the Newly Deceased: A Legal Perspective," 8 The Hospitalist, March-April 2004
- "Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa: A Call for Privilege for the Self-Disclosure of Error in the Setting of Primary Medical Education," 35 Journal of Health Law 419, 2002
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