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Physician-Attorney
Ernest P. Chiodo, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., M.S., C.I.H. is a physician, attorney, industrial hygienist, and biomedical engineer with board certification in internal medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, public health and general preventive medicine, and industrial hygiene. He received his medical, legal, and biomedical engineering degrees from Wayne State University and his Master of Public Health from Harvard University. He is the former Medical Director of the Detroit Health Department. He is an assistant professor of internal medicine at Wayne State University. He is curently the President-Elect of the Michigan Indusrial Hygiene Society and Vice-Chairman of the Environmental Litigation and Administrative Practice Committee of the State Bar of Michigan. He has clinical privileges at the Henry Ford Health System and serves as the attorney for the Medical Staff of Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals-Warren Campus. He is licensed to practice medicine and law in Michigan and Illinois. |
MEDICAL PRACTICE
Dr. Chiodo's medical practice includes the diagnosis and treatment of occupational and environmental disease caused by exposures to toxins, chemicals, molds, infectious agents, lightning, electrocution, heat, noise, lasers, and radiation. He has special expertise in determining causation of disease due to automobile accidents and falls given his Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering. As a Certified Industrial Hygienist (C.I.H.), Dr. Chiodo also has special expertise in issues concerning Building Related Disease. Dr. Chiodo has served as the Medical Director of the City of Detroit and was responsible for protecting the public health of over one million people. |
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LAW PRACTICE
Dr. Chiodo's law practice has included service as a trial attorney in toxic tort and environmental litigiation. He has also represented numerous physicians in medical licensure, peer review, and contract issues. His legal practice also includes venture capital law services to biotechnology and environmental concerns. |
DISEASE CAUSATION
Determination of causation of occupational and environmental disease requires knowledge of medicine, epidemiology, toxicology, biostatistics, industrial hygiene, public health, and biomedical engineering. Dr. Chiodo has formal education and board certifications documenting his expertise in all of these disciplines. In addition, as a practicing attorney, he has knowledge of evidentiary rules including the Federal Daubert Rules for admission of expert testimony.
Toxic Tort: Medical and Legal Elements
When your legal concerns involve dangerous toxins and pesticides, you want to know exactly what you are dealing with. Attorney and physician Dr. Ernest Chiodo has outlined these concerns in his book, Toxic Tort: Medical and Legal Elements. This is what former Chairman of the environmental law section of the State Bar of Michigan, Donnelly W. Hadden had to say about the book:
"Dr. Chiodo provides within this book gems of researched law and accepted science polished with the grit of practical courtroom experience. If you do any toxic tort litigation, this book will soon become dog-eared and full of underlined passages. You will always keep it near."
ERNEST P. CHIODO, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., M.S., C.I.H.
Ernest P. Chiodo, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., M.S., C.I.H. provides medical, legal, industrial hygiene, and biomedical engineering services from his offices in Metropolitan Detroit and Chicago concerning issues requiring multi-disciplinary expertise. |
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Michigan Office
35770 Harper Avenue
Clinton Township, MI 48035
Tel. 586-746-1761
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Illinois Office
221 North LaSalle St.
Suite 1748
Chicago, IL 60601
Tel. 312-351-0717
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