American Board of Legal Medicine

Peter RheinsteinWebsitehttp://www.ablminc.org/

The American Board of Legal Medicine sets the standards for training and certifying competency in health care law for dual degreed physician attorneys, with the self-stated aim of promoting excellence in practice through its certification process. Candidates who have completed the requisite training may take an examination to become board-certified by ABLM.

The current American Board of Legal Medicine is a nonprofit organization incorporated in 1951 in the state of Delaware.^[1][2] In 1980, the American Board of Law in Medicine, Inc. also was incorporated in the state of Delaware. To facilitate the recognition of Legal Medicine as a specialty, the two entities merged in 1987 with the surviving entity being the American Board of Legal Medicine, Inc.

The ABLM is governed by a twelve-member board, who elect their own chairman, secretary, and treasurer.

ABLM administers examinations to individuals with both legal and medical degrees. The Board has certified approximately 300 MD/JDs in legal medicine by means of computer-based or paper based examinations.^[3] The ABLM also furnishes study materials and courses in Legal Medicine and Medical Malpractice.

• Peter Rheinstein, Chairman
• Matthias Okoye ^[4], Secretary
• John D. Busowski, Treasurer
• S. Sandy Sanbar, Executive Director ^[5]
• Michael Brooks
• Marvin Firestone
• John K. Hall
• Weldon E. Havins
• Richard Kelly
• Joseph P. McMenamin
• Daniel L. Orr II
• Richard Wilbur

• Edgar Reed, 1980-84
• Lee Goldsmith, 1984-86
• Cyril Wecht^[6], 1986-96
• Allan Gibofsky, 1996-2003
• Sal Fiscina, 2003-2007
• S. Sandy Sanbar, 2007-2011