Important Legal Issues Facing Medical Care Providers 

 AGENDA

Welcome/Opening Remarks
Elizabeth P. McCullough, Attorney, Young Moore

Angela Farag Craddock, Attorney, Young Moore

 ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Dr. Barbara Walker
North Carolina Medical Board 

Dr. Walker is a member of the North Carolina Medical Board and a Family Physician with New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington where she previously served as Program Director of the Osteopathic Family Medicine Residency. She is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians.

Recognized as an advocate for and leader of the osteopathic medical profession in North Carolina, Dr. Walker has served as a trustee of both the American Osteopathic Association and of Campbell University.

Dr. Walker also has a distinguished military career spanning more than 20 years in the U.S. Army where she served active duty in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm attached to the 307th Medical Battalion of the 82nd Airborne. She has the distinction of being the first female physician ever to deploy with that Division. She  retired from the military in 2006 with the rank of Colonel.

Angela Farag Craddock
Young Moore and Henderson, P.A.

A shareholder at Young Moore, Angela  represents employers and insurance companies in all stages of litigation before the North Carolina Industrial Commission and North Carolina Appellate Courts. Her practice includes assisting her clients with complex workers’ compensation matters, risk management policies, medical cost containment strategies, and in directing care toward evidence-based solutions. Through this work she has developed a particular interest in policies designed to address the public health crisis of the opioid epidemic, the growing adoption of medical marijuana laws across the country, and legal developments related to the treatment of addiction.

In addition to her work in the field of workers’ compensation, Angela has a passion for appellate work which she has cultivated into a burgeoning appellate practice across several areas of civil, administrative, and regulatory practice. Because of her expertise, trial counsel routinely enlist Angela’s services whether by taking over the handling and disposition of the entire matter on appeal, or by consulting and collaborating on appellate strategy, briefing, and preparing oral arguments.

Contact Angela at afc@youngmoorelaw.com or (919) 861-5087.

DID YOU KNOW?
Opioid abusers are more likely to live in the rural south. North Carolina is home to the city having the highest percentage in the nation of its population abusing opioids.

If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact Sandy Waller at swaller@youngmoorelaw.com or (919) 861-5128.