Ryan Abbott, MD, JD, MTOM, is Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey School of Law, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and a mediator and arbitrator with JAMS. He has published widely on issues associated with law and technology, health law and intellectual property in leading legal, medical, and scientific journals. Professor Abbott has worked as partner at a litigation firm, general counsel of a biotechnology company, and of counsel at law firms specialized in transactional matters and intellectual property litigation for biopharmaceutical and medical device companies. He is a licensed physician and patent attorney in the United States, and a solicitor (non-practicing) in England and Wales.