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Rogers
Mantese
has been selected by Michigan Lawyers Weekly as a
recipient of the 21st Century Innovator award for 2009.
Michigan Lawyers Weekly, founded in 1986, is probably
the most widely read news publication for lawyers in
Michigan.
David
Rogers has been selected for listing in The Best
Lawyers in America, in health care law. Best Lawyers is
based on an exhaustive peer-review survey on the legal
abilities of other lawyers in their specialties.
Rogers
Mantese has recently committed to sponsoring the
Rogers Mantese & Associates, P.C. Annual Law Scholarship
at the Irvin D. Reid Honors College, Wayne State
University, Detroit. The scholarship is created to
recognize and honor outstanding scholarship by
undergraduate students with financial need whose goals
are to attend Wayne State University Law School and
practice law in the metropolitan Detroit area after
graduation. In addition to this scholarship, the firm
has sponsored the Rogers Mantese & Associates, P.C.
Health Law Scholarship Award for several years at
Wayne State University Law School, and plans to continue
doing so.
David Rogers
represented the combined interests of physicians from
diverse groups in medical oncology, urology, radiation
oncology, surgical oncology, breast surgery and other
cancer-related specialties in organizing the Beaumont
Oncology Network (BON), affiliated with William Beaumont
Hospitals. After more than two years of negotiation and
planning, the network is being implemented in 2009. BON
is owned by Beaumont medical staff physicians who treat
cancer patients, and was organized to provide
management, education and research services to integrate
cancer care throughout the Beaumont system.
Christina Torossian is working with David to
organize and implement the corporate structure of BON.
David
Rogers
was selected as a Michigan Super
Lawyer again this year, in health care law. The Michigan
Super Lawyers list, by the publishers of Law & Politics,
is compiled through a process of balloting, selection
panel review and independent research. Only 5% of
attorneys in Michigan are selected for Michigan
Super Lawyers. Law & Politics selects and publishes
Super Lawyers lists in many states throughout the United
States. David has been selected every year since Super
Lawyers began publishing in Michigan.
Theresamarie Mantese
was a speaker at the 2009 annual meeting of the American
Health Lawyers Association in Washington DC. Her
presentation was on “The Impact of Kadlec and Poliner on
Credentialing/Peer Review,” relating to physician
medical staff privilege rights.
David
Rogers
gave
a presentation at the 15th Annual Michigan Health Law
Institute (2009) on Retail Trends in Health Care, and as
one of four panel members for an “Ask the Speakers”
segment. The Michigan Health Law Institute is
co-sponsored by the Institute on Continuing Legal
Education and the State Bar of Michigan Health Care Law
Section. David was a speaker at the first Michigan
Health Law Institute in 1995, and at all but one annual
institute since then.
Rolf
Lowe
participated recently as a Judge in Moot Court for law
students attending Wayne University Law School.
Christina Torossian
has been recognized for her contributions in pro bono
work by receiving an award from the Legal Aid and
Defender Association of Michigan. Tina was instrumental
in creating the corporate structure for a new nonprofit
organization to assist needy families.
Theresamarie Mantese
and Greg Nowakowski published “Survived Miller?
Think Again” in the March 2009 Business Theme Issue of
the Michigan Bar Journal, published by the State Bar of
Michigan.
The article
discussed the impact of a new Michigan Supreme Court
decision on the corporate practice of medicine doctrine
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