ATLANTA, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Powell Goldstein LLP announced today that Sidney Summers Welch is joining the Firm’s health care practice as a partner in the Atlanta office. Ms. Welch specializes in representing physicians, medical staffs, and physician practices in regulatory, business and administrative matters.
Previously, Ms. Welch was a partner with Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP.
“Sidney is an experienced health care lawyer who will strengthen our expertise in serving physician practices in Georgia,” said Randy Hughes, leader of Powell Goldstein’s Atlanta health care practice. Ms. Welch holds a Master’s of Public Health from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and completed an extensive internship with the University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center and the American Medical Association.
“Our nationally known health care practice has a superior reputation and track record,” said Powell Goldstein Chairman Jim McAlpin, Jr. “Sidney brings an added dimension to our team and will complement the dedicated work we do so well across the country in the health care arena.”
Ms. Welch is actively involved in community health care initiatives, including serving as a board member of the Georgia Cancer Foundation and working with the Atlanta Women’s Foundation’s Promoting Women’s Health initiative, the Atlanta Women’s Medical Alliance and local, state and national medical societies.
Ms. Welch earned her Juris Doctor from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in 1995. She was the associate editor of the American Journal of Trial Advocacy while in law school and a member of the national moot court team and a Cordell Hull Teaching Fellow.
Powell Goldstein LLP was established in 1909 and has more than 300 attorneys who provide legal counsel to clients in a wide variety of practices from offices in Atlanta and Washington. For more information, visit http://www.pogolaw.com/ or call 202.347.0066.
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