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DANIEL H. WILLICK, J.D., PH.D.
Dan Willick specializes in healthcare law with successes in precedent-setting lawsuits , as an advocate, as a neutral and as an expert witness. Positions he advocated were adopted by the California Supreme Court and California Courts of Appeal in Regents v. Superior Court (2018) 14 Cal.5th 607; Menendez v. Superior Court (1992) 3 Cal.4th 435; Rea v. Blue Shield (2014) 226 Cal.App.4th 1209; and Ford v. Norton (2001) 89 Cal.App.4th 974. His rulings as a hearing officer have been affirmed by appellate courts in Mileikowsky v. Tenet (2005) 128 Cal.App.4th 531, reversed in part, Mileikowsky v. West Hills (2009) 45 Cal.4th 1259, 1273, and in Moran v. South Coast Medical Center 2013 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1766. His testimony as an expert witness supported significant victories by physicians subjected to improper medical review in Shahinian v. Cedars-Sinai (2019) 194 Cal.App.4th 987 and Chen v. Bright Health (2014 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 2354.
Dan is the attorney for the Southern California Psychiatric Society and has been a legal consultant to the University of California system on mental health law and general counsel to the California Psychiatric Association. He advises boards of directors, negotiates contracts with employees and lobbyists, and follows and advises on proposed healthcare legislation and regulations. Additionally, Dan advises on the operation of clinics providing psychotherapy and other medical services.
Dan's expansive healthcare practice includes representing physicians and other healthcare providers before licensing boards and in medical staff corrective action hearings. He frequently acts as a hearing officer or arbitrator in medical staff hearings and has been chosen to serve as an arbitrator on the American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel. Dan has prepared medical staff bylaw provisions governing peer review hearings and has represented medical staffs and professional societies at such hearings.
He is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the USC Keck School of Medicine and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine and has also held academic appointments at Loyola Law School, University of California at Santa Barbara and California State University at Los Angeles.
– Healthcare Law
– Arbitration
– Hearing Officer
– Mental health law and campus safety