J. Bret DeLone, POLITICALLY ACTIVE PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION
P.A.P.A. was formed by concerned medical practitioners to ensure quality medical care can continue to be delivered to patients. The Association is committed to educating the public and the legislative bodies as to the escalating problems that have arisen to lessen the effectiveness of medical care to those needing such care.
Website: POLITICALLY ACTIVE PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION, Philadelphia, PA
Phone: 215-271-9590.
Email: email@fightingdocs.com

Tobey Oxholm, Esq., VICE PRESIDENT & GENERAL COUNSEL, DREXEL UNIVERSITY
Tobey joined Drexel after 22 years of practicing law in Philadelphia. Before joining the University, he was a partner in Fox Rothschild O'Brien & Frankel, and a named partner in Connolly Epstein Chicco Foxman Oxholm & Ewing. His career included five years in the City Solicitor's Office, where he rose to the level of Chief Deputy City Solicitor and was responsible for all zoning, real estate tax, condemnation, procurement, and commercial litigation; and was chief counsel to the Departments of Licenses & Inspections, Streets, and Public Property, and the Minority Business Enterprise Council. He was a frequent lecturer on civil procedure, litigation strategy and tactics, and ethics.
Website: DREXEL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
Phone: 215-571-4815.
Email: merger@drexel.edu

James Colleran, Sr., Esq., THE COLLERAN FIRM
His reputation precedes him in virtually every jurisdiction throughout Pennsylvania. James Colleran is revered, and sometimes feared, as the penultimate plaintiff's personal injury lawyer. Once described as one of the six toughest personal injury attorneys in the region by Philadelphia Magazine, any doctor will tell you that James Colleran is not the lawyer they wish to face in deposition or at trial. Building his reputation throughout the eighties with perhaps the ultimate Philadelphia personal injury firm of Beasley, Casey, & Colleran, Jim went out on his own in the 1990's, carrying with him his success and reputation for thorough, excellent preparation in medical malpractice, product liability and general personal injury matters-often yielding favorable results in the millions of dollars. Today, his firm consists essentially of related family members-making for a cohesive, focused unit that continues to receive superlative reviews among their Pennsylvania and New Jersey clients.
Website: THE COLLERAN FIRM, Philadelphia, PA.
Phone: 215-972-8000.
Email: attorneys@colleran.com

Carol Shepherd, Esq., FELDMAN SHEPHERD WOHLGELERNTER TANNER & WEINSTOCK
In 1987, Ms. Shepherd became one of the founding partners of Feldman, Shepherd, Wohlgelernter, Tanner and Weinstock, where she has devoted her practice to catastrophic injury claims arising from medical negligence. Widely published and a frequent lecturer on the preparation and trial of medical malpractice claims, Ms. Shepherd has represented clients in claims against health care providers arising from obstetric/childbirth injury, delayed diagnosis of cancer, improperly performed surgery, psychiatric malpractice and many other cases involving substandard medical care. Carol Shepherd was honored as one of the Top 50 Female Lawyers in Pennsylvania, and as a Medical Malpractice Super Lawyer by Philadelphia Magazine in 2005 and 2006.
Website: FELDMAN SHEPHERD WOHLGELERNTER TANNER & WEINSTOCK, Philadelphia, PA.
Phone: 215-567-8300.
Email: cshepherd@feldmanshepherd.com

Stephen A. Sheller, Esq., SHELLER, P.C.
Stephen A. Sheller has been in practice since 1963. The hallmark of his practice-- then and now-- has been to empower wronged individuals who have been in an uphill battle against a stronger opponent. He is nationally known for tackling difficult cases on behalf of individuals facing major conglomerates. Mr. Sheller maintains a national practice concentrating in areas of medical malpractice, toxic tort, medical device, drug product and complex catastrophic personal injury litigation. He represents clients in litigation throughout the United States involving medical malpractice, breast implants, L-tryptophan, tobacco, floxin, DES, bone screws, penile implants and numerous other products. He has appeared on national and regional programs including ABC-TV's "Good Morning America" and on "CNN Live." In December 2000, his firm made national headlines when it was chosen to participate in the National Presidential Election 2000 voting debacle in Palm County, Florida.
Website: SHELLER, P.C., Philadelphia, PA & Marlton, NJ.
Phone 800-883-2299.
Email: sasheller@sheller.com

MEDICAL
MALPRACTICE

Andrew Worek, Esq., WEBER GALLAGHER SIMPSON STAPLETON FIRES & NEWBY LLP
Mr. Worek’s practice concentrates on defending medical malpractice and medical device suits and advising physicians, practice groups and hospitals on healthcare related legal issues including bioethics, procedures, protocols and risk management.  He also defends against equal protection and civil rights actions brought by prisoners receiving medical care. Mr. Worek has extensive trial and appellate experience in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He also lectures on medical malpractice reform and litigation. Mr. Worek participates in case resolution through mediation with Health Care Resolutions and acts as a Judge Pro Tempore in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Worek lectures on medical malpractice Reform and also on attorney ethics. In 2006, Mr. Worek was recognized by the publishers of Philadelphia magazine and the Pennsylvania edition of Super Lawyers magazine as being among the top 5 percent of practitioners in his practice specialty within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Website: WEBER GALLAGHER SIMPSON STAPLETON FIRES & NEWBY LLP, 9 offices worldwide.
Phone: 215-972-7908.
Email: aworek@wglaw.com

John Snyder, Esq., RAWLE & HENDERSON LLP
John J. Snyder focuses his trial practice in the area of the defense of catastrophic injury, with particular emphasis on construction, industrial, pharmaceutical and medical malpractice matters. He is a very experienced litigator having tried an extremely large number of trials to verdict in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties. He and his practice group specialize in receiving high exposure cases (demands commonly in $30M-$80M range) weeks to several months before trial, and trying the case to verdict. He is an active member of the bar in the states of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. He is also admitted to practice in the federal courts of Pennsylvania, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Website: RAWLE & HENDERSON LLP, 8 offices throughout PA, NJ, DE, NY, WV.
Phone: 215-575-4220.
Email: jsnyder@rawle.com

Mark Tanner, Esq., FELDMAN SHEPHERD WOHLGELERNTER TANNER & WEINSTOCK
Mark W. Tanner is an accomplished trial attorney with a wide ranging practice in complex litigation. In addition to securing one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in the courts of Pennsylvania, Mr. Tanner has also secured what is believed to be the largest jury verdict in Pennsylvania in a bad faith case against an insurance company. Mr. Tanner has been appointed by the Court as liaison counsel in mass tort litigation in both Pennsylvania state and federal courts, including the Orthopedic Bone Screw litigation and the Diet Drug litigation, in which he served as sub-class counsel. His practice interests include medical negligence, disability insurance claims, insurance bad faith, product liability and class action litigation. Recognized for three consecutive years by Philadelphia Magazine as one of the top 100 "Super Lawyers" in Pennsylvania, in 2006, Mr. Tanner became one of the youngest attorneys ever invited to become a Fellow of the prestigious International Academy of Trial Attorneys (membership is limited to 500 lawyers).
Website: FELDMAN SHEPHERD WOHLGELERNTER TANNER & WEINSTOCK, Philadelphia, PA.
Phone: 215-567-8300.
Email: mtanner@feldmanshepherd.com