Attorney Biographies - Andrew Knoll

Andrew M. Knoll
(315) 471-8111
Direct Fax: (315) 425-3641
E-mail address: aknoll@scolaro.com

Andrew M. Knoll, M.D., J.D. is a partner and member of the Healthcare Department. He is a 2003 summa cum laude graduate of Syracuse University College of Law, having been awarded the Justinian Society Award for Highest Academic Average. A staff editor of the Syracuse University Law Review, his note, Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa: A Call for Privilege for Self-Disclosure of Error in the Setting of Primary Medical Education won the American Health Lawyers Association's 2002 Student Writing Competition.

Andrew received his M.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1984 and is board certified in Internal Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and holds an appointment as Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Upstate Medical University.

A Persian Gulf veteran and former Navy Flight Surgeon, Andrew was honorably discharged from the United States Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander.

Practice Groups

Healthcare
Litigation

Education

Syracuse University, J.D. (summa cum laude), 2003
State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine, M.D., 1984
University of Michigan, B.S., 1980

Memberships

Onondaga County Bar Association
– Member, Health Law Section
New York State Bar Association
– Member, Health Law Section
American Health Lawyers' Association
American College of Physicians
– Fellow
Onondaga County Medical Society
Medical Society of the State of New York

Publications

"Legal Issues in Hospitalist-Hospital Relationships", chapter in Comprehensive Hospital Medicine, Mark V. Williams, M.D. et al., eds., Elsevier/Saunders, Philadelphia(2007)
"The Stark Reality of Being a Hospitalist: Who Knew Taking Care of Patients Would
Be a Self-Referral?" 8 The Hospitalist (Nov/Dec 2004)
"Practicing Procedures on the Newly Deceased: A Legal Perspective,"
8 The Hospitalist (March/April 2004)
"The Reawakening of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the Turn of the
Twenty-First Century: Filling the Void in Conventional Biomedicine." 20 Journal of
Contemporary Health Law & Policy (2004)
"Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa: A Call for Priviledge for Self-Disclosure of Error in the Setting
of Primary Medical Education" 35 Journal of Health Law 419 (2002)
"Health Insurance and Palliative Care" 338 New England Journal of Medicine 767(1998)
"Participation of Physicians in Capital Punishment"
330 New England Journal of Medicine 935 (1994)

Speaking Engagements

"The ABCs of Medical Ancillary Income - Legal Issues" at SJH 39th Family Medicine Refresher Course, Syracuse, NY, March 2010
"Representing Licensed Professionals Before the Office of Professional Medical Conduct and the Office of Professional Discipline" at NYSBACLE, Syracuse, NY, November 2009
"Medico-Legal Seminar" at the New York Health Information Management Association (NYHIMA), October 2009
"Physician Discipline in New York" at SJH 38th Family Medicine Refresher Course, Syracuse, NY, March 2009
"Hospital-Hospitalist Contracting" at World Research Group Optimizing the Role of Hospitalists Conference, Atlanta, GA December 2009
"Staying Out of Legal Troubles" at the New York State Academy of Family Physicians
Winter Weekend/Scientific Assembly in Lake Placid, NY, January 2007.
"Contracting Issues for Hospitalists"
Hospitalist Conferences USA, Hospitalist CME Series in Boston, March 2007.
"Economic and Legal Aspects of the Relationship Between Hospitals and Hospitalists"
at the Society for Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, April 2005
"Legal Issues in Owning an Ambulatory Surgery Center"
at the American Urology Association Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, May 2005
"Representing Physicians and Other Health Care Practitioners in the Professional
Disciplinary Process" NYSBA CLE, Melville, Albany & Rochester, NY Spring 2006
"Bioethics as Mediation"
Institute for Ethics in Healthcare in Skaneateles, NY November 2006