Joseph P. McMenamin, M.D., J.D., FCLM

Joe McMenamin is a physician-attorney with 40 years’ legal experience as a partner at a large international law firm, as a soloist and now as a partner with Christian & Barton in Richmond, Virginia. He has long focused on the law of digital health and of the application of AI in healthcare.

Joe advises institutional and individual telehealth service providers, academic medical centers, remote monitoring services, trade associations, telehealth platform companies, investors and telecoms on a broad array of medico-legal questions. He writes and lectures extensively on these and related topics.

Earlier in his legal career, Joe defended healthcare professionals in court and before health regulatory boards. He also represented medical device, biotech and pharmaceutical companies in tort litigation.

Before graduating from law school, Joe practiced emergency medicine at hospitals in Georgia and Pennsylvania during a seven-year period overlapping his residency and legal education. While he no longer sees patients, he relies on his medical training in his daily work.

Joe is a 1974 graduate of Washington & Lee, where he earned a B.S. summa cum laude. He is also a graduate of the Schools of Medicine (1978) and of Law (1985) of the University of Pennsylvania and of the internal medicine residency program at Emory University (1981).

He serves as general counsel to the Virginia Telehealth Network, as a member of the Legal Resource Team of the Center for Telemedicine and eHealth Law (CTeL) and on the board of directors of the American Board of Legal Medicine.

Joe is board-certified in legal medicine, an associate professor of legal medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Fellow of the College of Legal Medicine.