Sometimes You Need a Lawyer who IS a Doctor! When the law and medicine collide, no two cases are ever alike, and things can become complicated pretty quickly.

Mitchell S. Nudelman, MD, JD, is residency trained in Family Medicine and licensed to practice both medicine and law. A member of the Georgia Bar in good standing since 1991, Dr. Nudelman holds unrestricted licenses to practice medicine in FL (1986) and GA (1990). He was board certified for more than 30 years. 

After more than 25 years predominantly serving defense counsel, insurance carriers, and employers in a wide range of cases involving complex medical-legal matters, Dr. Nudelman now also works for those who are injured like you. His vast experience as an industry insider over the past 30 years has given him a keen insight into how insurance companies work and has helped him to successfully resolve claims before they have to court.

Dr. Nudelman received his Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Rochester (NY) and did research in RNA tumor virology at the university’s medical school as an undergrad. Studying abroad in Spanish the first two years, but completing all his clincial rotations in the US, he earned his medical degree in 1983. After completing his medical residency in Family Medicine at St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware (through the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University), he attended the University of Miami School of Law full-time at night, while practicing medicine during the day.

Some fun facts: 

• Dr. Nudelman knows firsthand just what it’s like to be a plaintiff – because he was one. In 2008, after ten years of hard-fought litigation, Dr. Nudelman settled his own Whistleblower suit against CIGNA. The settlement for millions resulted in CIGNA’s subsequent adoption of evidence-based medicine coverage criteria that are published online and are transparent to the public.
• He served as the sole authorized Medical Peer Review Physician to the Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation for more than a decade.
• Dr. Nudelman also has decades of experience locating, retaining, and then preparing expert medical witnesses.
• The medical review company that he founded, and still serves as Chief Medical Officer (Medical Director Solutions, LLC), has consulted for many insurance companies, prominent defense law firms, and Fortune 500 companies.
• He is an expert on credentialing of physicians, medical necessity, workers’ compensation, and disability determinations, having reviewed tens of thousands of cases over the course of his career.
• Dr. Nudelman holds a degree in Animal Husbandry from SUNY Cobleskill, and currently serves on its College Foundation Board as VP of the Executive Committee.