Dawn R. Crumel, Esquire 

Dawn R. Crumel is Senior Associate Counsel at Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC), Washington, DC. In her role at CNMC, Crumel provides legal advice on medical research, emergency preparedness, information technology, fraud and abuse, real estate, contracts, biomedical ethics, medical staff, immigration and general hospital operational, regulatory, and transactional issues. She has spent most of her career as in-house counsel at academic medical centers and also has been in-house counsel for Howard University Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania Health System. In addition, Crumel clerked for the New Jersey Supreme Court and was a healthcare associate with the law firm, Buchanan Ingersoll. 

Crumel is a Vice Chair of the Teaching Hospital and Academic Medical Centers Practice Group and of the Healthcare Reform Education Taskforce of American Health Lawyers Association and serves on its Advisory Council on Diversity. She was the At Large Member of the Nominating Committee of the AHLA board 2010-2011. Crumel served as the Chair of the Emergency Preparedness Affinity Group of AHLA (2008-2010) and was the managing editor and contributing author of the AHLA Emergency Preparedness Toolkit (May 2010). She served as Co-Chair of the Health Law Forum of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia (2008-2011), and served as the Vice-Chair of the Health Steering Committee of the District of Columbia Bar Association (2003-2006). 

Speaking Engagements

• Issues in Transparency: Practical Implications of Intersecting Laws, Legal Issues Affecting Academic Medical Centers and Other Teaching Institutions in January 2012;
  
• Resources in Emergency Preparedness, Fifth Annual Emergency Management Summit, September 2011, New York;
  
• Public Interest Dialogue:  Institutional Conflicts of Interests – A Clash of Policies and Emerging Best Practices, AHLA Annual Meeting, June 2011;
  
• Provider Obligations and Responsibilities on Access for Patients, AHLA In-House Counsel, June 2011;
  
• How To Let the Sunshine In, Society of Clinical Research Associates, Rockville, MD April 2011;
  
• Objectivity v. Commercialization"  Academic Medical Center Institutional Conflicts of Interest in Research: An Academic Discussion, January 2011;
  
• Letting the Sunshine In,  GTCbio’s Healthcare Reform: Dealing with Hurdles and Building Up Successes Conference, November 2010;
  
• How Prepared is Your Hospital for the Next Emergency? September 30, 2010 AHLA webinar;
  
• Careers in Health Law, Bar Association of the District of Columbia, April 2010; 
  
• It’s Not Child’s Play: Special Considerations for Pediatric Medicine and Research, AHLA Legal Issues Affecting Academic Medical Centers and Other Teaching Institutions in January 2010;
  
• H1N1: The Shot Heard Around the World, AHLA webinar October 2009;
  
• Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Society of Clinical Research Associates, September 2009;
  
• Conflict of Interest in Medical Research at the AHLA Inhouse Meeting  in June 2009;
  
• Immigration Alphabet Soup: Impact of Immigration Law on a Medical Researcher at AHLA Legal Issues Affecting Academic Medical Centers and Other Teaching Institutions  in January 2009 and AHLA webinar in December 2008;
  
• Careers in Health Law, Bar Association of the District of Columbia, 2006; and
  
• Medical Jurisprudence  at the National Medical Association Regional Meeting in New Orleans in 2005.

Dawn is the author of Recognizing the Rights of Patients to Choose Visitors: A Balancing Act, BNA’s Health Law Reporter, July 7, 2011; co-author of the Connections’ article, Be Careful What You Ask for: NIH’s  Request for Comments on Conflict of Interest in Research; the author of the Health Lawyers’ News article, When Disaster Strikes a Residency Program, and a contributor to the AHLA publication Medical Research: A Consumer’s Guide to Participation. She is a member of the BNA Health Law Reporter Advisory Board. She holds an A.B. in Biomedical Ethics from Brown University (1989) and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1994).