About Us
Ernest P. Chiodo, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., M.S., M.B.A., C.I.H. is a physician and a biomedical engineer with a practice focus upon determination of whether or not injury was caused by a motor vehicle accident. Dr. Chiodo is licensed to practice medicine in Illinois, New York, Michigan and Florida. Dr. Chiodo received his medical degree (M.D.) and his Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Wayne State University in Detroit. He received his Master of Public Health from Harvard University. He received his Master of Science in Evidence Based Healthcare (medicine) from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom (England). The biomedical engineering program at Wayne State University is one of the leading centers in the world concerning vehicular impact biomechanics and has been funded by the domestic automobile industry since the 1930’s. Dr. Chiodo is board certified in the medical specialties of Internal Medicine, Occupational Medicine, and Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. He is also certified in the engineering and public health discipline of industrial hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene as a Certified Industrial Hygienist (C.I.H.) in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene. Industrial hygiene is the engineering discipline involved in assessing and controlling occupational and environmental hazards including biomechanical and ergonomic hazards. Dr. Chiodo served for many years on the faculty of Wayne State University School of Medicine. He also served as the Medical Director and Manager of Medical and Public Health Services for the City of Detroit. Dr. Chiodo was the chief physician responsible for measures designed to protect the public health of over one million persons living or working in the City of Detroit during the time of his service. This was a position of substantial public responsibility where at the time he had the direct telephone number to the United States White House in case he had to contact the President concerning a public health emergency or disaster in the City of Detroit.
Dr. Chiodo has been an expert concerning injury causation in hundreds of motor vehicle cases and has testified concerning injury causation in cases in a number of jurisdictions including in the State of Illinois.
Dr. Chiodo is only licensed to practice law in Michigan and Illinois and not in other states, territories, and districts.
