Joseph McMenamin, Author at Risk and Resilience Hub

About Joseph McMenamin

Joseph P. McMenamin was a university-trained internist and a practicing emergency physician before being admitted to the bar. He is a partner with McGuireWoods and an Associate Professor in the Department of Legal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He can be reached at [email protected] , or (804) 775-1015.

Social Media During Disaster Response

By Joseph P. McMenamin|2022-03-29T19:12:57+00:00January 3rd, 2010|

A Lawyer’s Perspective Social media hold tremendous potential for facilitating disaster recovery. In the recent Haitian earthquake, for example, Twitter posts enabled the State Department to initiate a set of steps that led to finding [...]

Pandemic: Not Just a Public Health Threat

By Joseph P. McMenamin|2022-06-08T17:03:30+00:00January 1st, 2008|

A pandemic's greatest threat, of course, is to public health. Pandemic-related legal issues, however, are numerous, complex and significant. This article will touch briefly on some of those that are among the most likely to [...]