Physician-Attorney

Ernest P. Chiodo, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., M.S., C.I.H. is a physician, attorney, industrial hygienist, industrial toxicologist 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.  Wayne State University in Detroit is a leading center for the study of vehicular (car and truck) impact biomechanics as well as industrial hygiene and toxicology.  Biomedical engineering is the area of engineering that includes biomechanical engineering. In addition, he has a Master of Science in Threat Response Management (biological, chemical, and radiological defense) from the University of Chicago. He is the former Medical Director of the Detroit Health Department. He is an assistant professor of internal medicine, family medicine, and public health at Wayne State University. He is the immediate Past-President of the Michigan Industrial 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, Illinois and New York. He is also licensed to practice law in the states of Michigan and Illinois and is an adjunct professor of law at John Marshall Law School in Chicago where he teaches toxic tort law. He has offices in Chicago, New York City, Miami Florida and suburban Detroit.

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, industrial hygiene, threat response management and biomedical engineering services from his offices in Metropolitan Detroit, Chicago, and New York. He provides legal services in his Metropolitan Detroit and Chicago offices.