Medical education is the mainstay of Norton Rose Fulbright‘s multidisciplinary education practice which is sought out by both undergraduate medical education and graduate medical education levels as well as academic medical centers. Core to the practice is the team’s speciality in accreditation, handling accreditation-related compliance reviews and representing medical schools and GME teaching institutions in administrative hearings to challenge adverse accreditation determinations. Other strengths include transactional, IP, and regulatory advice related to research misconduct. The department is jointly steered by two partners who also co-lead the firm’s US healthcare practice: St. Louis-based Stacey Murphy and Houston-based Susan Feigin Harris. Located in the New York office, Andrew Roth is an expert in medical school accreditation and regularly counsels institutions and teaching programs with periodic reviews. Dallas-based senior counsel Jennifer McDaniel handles policy reviews and audits while Austin-based Gina Shishima is praised for being ’a very strategic IP practitioner’.
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‘Gina Shishima is a very strategic IP practitioner.’
‘Gina Shishima has a strong scientific background.'
Key clients
- Xavier University of Louisiana
- University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
- UWorld LLC
- Baylor University
- Texas A&M
Work highlights
- Advised Xavier University of Louisiana in entering into an affiliation with Ochsner Health System (largest nonprofit New Orleans-based healthcare system) to establish a new medical school in New Orleans.
- Advised University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston on a case involving imposition of disciplinary action on a research scientist following allegations that they falsified an image in a published journal article.
- Represent UWorld LLC, a vendor that provides content to help students succeed on high-stakes exams, on a complaint and application for injunctive relief against a competitor for copyright infringement, unfair competition, removal and/or altering copyright management information, trade dress dilution, theft and conversion.
Lawyers
Practice head
Stacey Murphy; Susan Feigin Harris
Other key lawyers
Andrew Roth; Jennifer McDaniel; Gina Shishima; Laurie Friesenhahn Stellman