Paul Frisch

Adjunct Instructor

Paul Frisch has been Oregon Medical Association's general counsel since 1985. He is a national expert on identifying the causes of and remediating adverse malpractice experience in individual physicians. Long involved in national patient safety efforts, he is a founding board member of the National Patient Safety Foundation and one of five state coordinators in Oregon for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Five Million Lives Network. In 2005, Paul published Adverse Events, Stress and Litigation: A Physician's Guide (Oxford University Press) with noted Chicago psychiatrist, researcher, and author Sara Charles.