Empowering Patients. Elevating Care.
To enhance providers' standard of care and encourage the protection of patients' rights. The global prevention of avoidable medical mistakes.
To enhance providers’ standard of care and encourage the protection of patients’ rights.
Who We Are
International Medical Law Center was incorporated as a nonprofit company on the 6th of April 2018 by the government of St. Christopher and Nevis.
This was preceded by two years of extensive research involving an International network of medical and legal experts committed to preventing medical mistakes, enhancing provider’s standard of care and protecting the rights of patients.
Mission
The global prevention of avoidable medical mistakes .
Vision
The metamorphosis of medical mistakes into a monstrous menace can be minimized. This can be done through a multifaceted approach, the most fundamental of which is arming the patient to become a valuable member of the therapeutic alliance; To understand what to demand from providers and to be sufficiently empowered to reward commendable care and condemn careless conduct.
Reach out to learn how you can support our initiatives, collaborate, or seek guidance.
International Medical Law Institute
This institute is established to educate medical providers and patients on how to enhance the standard of care, protect the rights of patients, avoid medical mistakes and efficiently resolve issues of medical malpractice. The institute has the following programs;
Basic training
Certification training
Fellowship
Senior Fellowship
Meet The Meet
We’re a team of dedicated experts committed to safer healthcare, empowering patients, and supporting providers in delivering quality care.
Kalu U.E. Ogbureke
BDS, DMSc, JD, MSc
Kalu U.E. Ogbureke
BDS, DMSc, JD, MSc
DMSc, oral biology | Harvard University, 2001.
JD | Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Graduate certificate in the Business of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.
Certificate of Training in Forensic Dentistry program of McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Fellow Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England (FDSRCS).
Fellow National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland.
Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine (ACLM).
Fellow American College of Dentists (FACD).
First Neal W. Chilton Fellowship in Clinical Research by the American Association for Dental Research (AADR).
Board certified diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (ABOMP).
Board certified diplomate of the American Board of Medical Malpractice (ABMM).
Board certified diplomate, American Board of Legal Medicine (ABLM).
Attorney at Law in three United States Jurisdictions (Georgia, Massachusetts, Washington DC) and the United States Supreme Court.
Adjunct Professor Augusta University’s (AU) Dental College of Georgia.
King James IV Professor of the year 2016, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd).
Tenured full Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial/Head and Neck Pathology, and Chair of the Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Dentistry.
Chair Board of Trustees, International Medical Law Center.
Pravin Avula
M.D., F.A.C.P.
Pravin Avula
M.D., F.A.C.P.
BOARD CERTIFIED: Internal Medicine, Sleep Medicine.
DR Eme Igbokwe
M.D, MBBS
DR Eme Igbokwe
M.D, MBBS
POST GRADUATE TRAINING: University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Queen Elizabeth Medical Center, Birmingham, England; United Kingdom.
Senior House Officer ( Geriatrics and Internal Medicine) Leigh Infirmary, Leigh,Lancashire, England; United Kingdom.
Resident Physician, (Internal Medicine) Atlantic City Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ.
Resident Physician, (Neurology) Tufts University, Boston, MA.
Fellowship in Neurophysiology specializing in Epilepsy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
BOARD CERTIFIED: Internal Medicine, Psychiatry and Neurology.
Partner with us to save lives from avoidable medical mistakes.
We collaborate with healthcare professionals, legal experts, and patient-right advocates to minimize preventable errors and raise global standards of care. Contact us to learn more or get involved.
