William J. Lee

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ABOUT WILLIAM J. LEE

William J. Lee leads Kershaw Talley Barlow’s scientific practice group and supports its nationally recognized mass tort and class action practices. William works at the intersection of epidemiology, law, and policy, collaborating with leading experts to develop scientific and medical evidence, and performing epidemiological and biostatistical analyses as an expert himself, in support of federal and state trial, appellate, and Supreme Court litigations. William routinely serves on court-appointed scientific leadership representing hundreds of thousands of patients in national pharmaceutical and medical device complex litigations including MDL No. 3089 (Phenylephrine), MDL No. 3043 (Tylenol/Acetaminophen), JCCP No. 5043 (Tenofovir), and JCCP No. 4887 (Essure). In each litigation, William has played an integral role in shaping leadership\'s pre-trial and trial strategies regarding causation, liability, and notice. In recent years, William has employed well-controlled, frequentist and Bayesian disproportionality methods to analyze post-market adverse events, and developed new lines of causation evidence, that many courts have not previously considered. For his significant and sustained contributions to the field of epidemiology and its application to the law, William has been elected to the prestigious American College of Epidemiology, in which he serves on its Ethics and Policy Committee and as President of its Foundation Board of Directors. William has been recognized by several leading national authorities, including the National Minority Quality Forum, the Boston Congress of Public Health, Marquis Who\'s Who in America, and Emory Univ. for utilizing the legal system to reduce patient risk and advance health equity among minoritized and underserved populations. In particular, William has developed innovative applications of epidemiology in law and policy to improve the health and well-being of underserved communities and populations. William received his Doctor of Law with Honors, Phi Delta Phi, from Emory Univ, his Master of Science Secundi Honoris Academici in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale Univ, and his Bachelor of Science in Cell and Molecular Biology from Duke Univ. William has worked at a number of high-profile universities and federal scientific agencies including Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the National Center for Patient Safety, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. William actively publishes his original research and maintains national-level speaking engagements in the scientific and legal communities.