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As General Counsel of Truman Medical Centers, Lewis Popper is responsible for the legal representation of TMC and its Charitable Foundation. The representation encompasses the full range of litigation, transactions, contracts and other legal matters that confront a complex academic medical center. Popper is also the Secretary and chief administrator of the TMC Self-Insurance Trust, an independent TMC affiliate that provides both professional liability and general liability coverage for TMC and some of its physicians. The Self- Insurance Trust employs two full-time attorneys who defend litigation and also handle risk management and the investigation and adjustment of claims.
Popper was the General Counsel of the University of Pittsburgh for thirteen (13) years before he came to TMC in 1998. He is from Washington, D.C. His higher education began at Harvard College, where he was awarded a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Government. He also attended law school at Harvard, graduating in 1971. He is currently the President of the Missouri Society of Health Care Attorneys, and is otherwise active in the healthcare community, for example, as a founding member of the Attorney Roundtable formed by the Center for Practical Bioethics. Mr. Popper was on the National Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association from 1990 to this year. | 