Mitchell S. Nudelman, MD, JD has been the Chief Medical Officer of Medical Director Solutions, LLC, since 1998 when he founded the company.
Dr. Nudelman, practices both administrative medicine and law. Dr. Nudelman holds active and unrestricted medical licenses in Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina and has been a member of the Georgia Bar and in good standing, since 1991. He is honored to be on the Board of Directors of the distinguished American Academy of Legal Medicine, Inc., members of which mostly have been trained in medicine and/or law, and the vast majority holds both MD (doctor of medicine) and JD (doctor of law) degrees.
For the better part of 30 years he has worked a very wide range of cases involving medical care issues and other medical legal matters, which often involve multiple medical specialties and complex medical facts. Dr. Nudelman’s insider experience with defense and plaintiff counsel, insurance carriers, and employers in such areas as WORKERS’ COMPENSATION, DISABILITY, and GENERAL LIABILITY has given him invaluable insight.
His credentials and diverse roles include the following highlights:
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Board Certified in Family Medicine for 31 years (1987 to 2018).
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[Note: As of December 2018, Dr. Nudelman no longer sits for the written examination for maintenance of certification].
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Attended the University of Miami School of Law at night while practicing medicine during the day, graduating in 1991. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, where he has practiced law continuously since 1997.
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Chief Medical Officer of Medical Director Solutions, LLC, the company he founded in 1998, and which has provided medical director consulting and peer review services to hundreds of insurance carriers, law firms, employers, third party administrators, case management companies, and others throughout the country.
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Served as the sole Authorized Medical Peer Review Physician to the Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation for more than a decade from 1998 to 2010.
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Medical Consultant to many major insurance carriers, including but not limited to The Hartford, Travelers, Canada Life Assurance Company, and Jefferson Pilot during which time he reviewed thousands of cases in WC, disability and group health.
Dr. Nudelman also has vast experience locating, retaining, and then preparing expert medical witnesses. His unique education and training in both law and medicine enable him to help litigation teams navigate extremely complex medical-legal cases, even cases with pressing, rapidly approaching deadlines.
As an authority on credentialing, he knows what makes these witnesses credible and reliable, and what’s required to ensure that they meet the Daubert standard for medical evidence and expert testimony. During the course of his long career, Dr. Nudelman has developed an extensive network of board certified physicians to consult on cases. As a long-time Fellow of the prestigious American College of Legal Medicine, he has access to more than a thousand of the most formidable dual degreed doctor-lawyers throughout the country, with subject matter expertise on almost every topic.
Our Experts
Mitchell S. Nudelman, MD, JD, FCLM
Medical Director Solutions Expert Panel
Over the past twenty years Medical Director Solutions has developed an excellent panel of medical and other related healthcare providers to serve our clients needs. Many are medical university affiliated, some dual degreed in their medical specialty and law, or are otherwise well respected for their exceptional reputation in their own medical communities.
As part of our effort to provide reliable and credible medical opinions, each medical peer reviewer or Independent Medical Examiner is Board Certified in their chosen field(s) and in at least one of the 24 American Board of Medical Specialties approved specialties (and/or their additional sub-specialties). All of our physicians hold unrestricted medical licenses, free of any board actions or unprofessional conduct or egregious malpractice claims. A curriculum vitae is provided upon request.
Reviewing specialists are chosen on a case-by-case basis. Because we do not believe in the one size fits all philosophy, it is not unusual that we seek out a medical expert that is just right for your case. A Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine, our Chief Medical Officer has access to a wide variety of highly respected national experts with an interest in Medical Legal cases, or possibly a board certified physician and attorney, both.
