Joseph P. ("Joe") McMenamin is a physician-attorney with McMenamin Law Offices in Richmond, Virginia. His practice concentrates exclusively on the law of health care, with special emphasis on digital health. With respect to the legal issues pertinent to this form of care, he has advised providers, hospital associations, consultancies, private equity firms, insurers, telecoms and several organizations facilitating telemedical services. The decisions of several digital health clients to enter the field of AI stimulated Joe's immersion in the subject.
Before being admitted to the Bar, Joe practiced emergency medicine at hospitals in Pennsylvania and Georgia on a part-time and full-time basis over a seven-year period overlapping his specialty training in internal medicine and his legal education. He presently serves as general counsel to the Virginia Telemedicine Network and as a member of the Legal Resource Team of CTeL, the Center for Telemedicine and eHealth Law. An associate professor of Legal Medicine at VCU, he is board-certified in Legal Medicine and a Fellow of the College of Legal Medicine.