The AMA and the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law present Erin Sutton as the AMA Health Law Fellow for the 2017-18 school year. She is the first fellow in this program.
Ms. Sutton, a 2015 graduate of Loyola University Chicago School of Law, is pursuing a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Loyola's nationally ranked LLM in Health Law program at the Beazley Institute and provides support for the projects of Litigation Center under the supervision of Leonard Nelson.
As the AMA Health Law Fellow, Erin attends AMA meetings, helps prepare Litigation Center Executive Committee memoranda and presentations, and reviews and prepares amicus briefs as well as other legal pleadings.
For the past 20 months, Erin has been a practicing attorney with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (LAF Chicago). There, she launched a medical-legal partnership between LAF Chicago and The Center for Veterans and Their Families at Rush University Medical Center (the Road Home Program).
Through Road Home, Ms. Sutton works with a clinical team to "diagnose" patients' legal issues interfering with behavioral treatment.
As a former student attorney with the Health Justice Project of Chicago, she trained Northwestern Family Medicine residents on Chicago's new Single Room Occupancy (SRO) ordinance.
In addition to a JD from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Erin holds a BA in Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
AMA Litigation Center
Established as a coalition in 1995 by the American Medical Association and the state medical societies, the Litigation Center helps shape the future of medicine in the nation's courtrooms.
The Litigation Center brings lawsuits, files amicus briefs and otherwise provides support or becomes actively involved in litigation of general importance to physicians and public health.
Forums range from administrative proceedings to cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the docket of more than 250 cases encompass the entire medical-legal landscape.
