Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Lisa Dagostino

Medical Malpractice - Catastrophic Personal Injury
Pharmaceutical litigation - Mass Tort


Medical Malpractice - Catastrophic Personal Injury - Pharmaceutical Litigation - Mass Tort - Doctor Lawyer Team - Lawyer - Attorney - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - New Jersey - Delaware


isa Dagostino, M.D., J.D., MBE is a doctor and award-winning medical researcher who has earned dual degrees in law and bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania while at Kline & Specter. She has worked on a number of important cases in recent years.

She teamed with Shanin Specter in a recent trial that resulted in a record-setting $7.8 million award by a Pittsburgh jury to the family of a boy who suffered cerebral palsy as a result of medical negligence immediately after childbirth. The Briggs case malpractice verdict, handed down in June 2004, was the largest in Allegheny County history.

Almost immediately after joining Kline & Specter as a law clerk while earning her J.D., Dr. Dagostino was thrust into the case of David Caruso, a young man who entered a hospital with a treatable malady but who suffered severe brain damage after a tube was placed improperly in his throat and slipped out of place, depriving him of oxygen for six minutes. The case, headed by Specter, resulted in a $49.6 million jury verdict, a record at the time for a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case.

Dr. Dagostino has had a distinguished academic career, earning her bachelor’s degree in 1991 at Princeton University, where she majored in English Literature. She received her M.D. at the UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 1995 and completed her residency training through the school’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences. In May 2002, Dr. Dagostino earned her dual degrees in law and bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

She was managing editor of the inaugural volume of The American Journal of Bioethics, a peer-reviewed publication produced by Penn's Center for Bioethics. Her research interests include critical care obstetrics, clinical ethics, and legal and ethical issues surrounding assisted reproduction.

Dr. Dagostino continues to do research in the complex medical field of bioethics – including topics such as medical errors, reproductive ethics, women’s health and the law, and transplant ethics. She has a special interest in women’s issues as they pertain to health care law.Medical Malpractice attorney Pennsylvania - New Jersey - Doctor/Lawyer Team - Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice Lawyer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

Dr. Dagostino is a fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine and a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She is also a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice.

To contact Lisa Dagostino, email her at
Lisa.Dagostino@KlineSpecter.com

 


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