University of Oregon School of Law

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Adjunct Professor

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Paul has been Oregon Medical Association’s General Counsel since 1985. He is a national expert on identifying the causes of and remediating adverse malpractice experience in individual physicians. Long involved in national patient safety efforts, he is a founding board member of the National Patient Safety Foundation and one of five state coordinators in Oregon of IHI’s Five Million Lives Network. He also works closely with organizations developing quality and performance improvement initiatives and currently chairs the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s (ACCME) Advisory Committee on Equivalency.

In 2003, Paul was the Vice-Chair of the Oregon Legislature’s Task Force on Medical Privacy and assisted in securing the passage of comprehensive legislation to conform Oregon healthcare privacy law to the federal HIPAA regulation. He also lead the OMA’s successful efforts during the same legislative session to pass a physician apology bill which allows doctors to express sympathy and bereavement to patients and their families following an adverse event. He is currently a member of Governor Kulongowski’s Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC) which is laying the groundwork for exchange of electronic health information statewide.

In 2005, Paul and Sara Charles, MD, noted Chicago psychiatrist, researcher and author, published their book, Adverse Events, Stress and Litigation: A Physician’s Guide, Oxford University Press.