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The firm has a full-time physician and legal nurse consultants in-house to assist the attorneys. Each medical professional is profiled below:

G. Truett Jarrard, Jr., M.D. joined the firm at its inception. He is board certified in Internal Medicine. He graduated from Medical College Of Georgia in 1966. He did his residency training at Tulane University and Emory University, and a cardiology fellowship at Emory University. He practiced as a cardiologist at the PAPP Clinic in Newnan, Georgia for 28 years.
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Dr. Riepe was born in Mt. Vernon, Illinois on July 22, 1949. He attended public schools and graduated from Gainesville High School in Gainesville, Georgia in 1967. He attended Emory College, without graduating, receiving Phi Beta Kappa in his third year. He was also a member of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity.

Dr. Riepe was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, a medical scholastic honorary society, in his third year and president of the society his fourth year at Emory University School of Medicine. He was subsequently first honor graduate in his medical class. Dr. Riepe was vice president of his medical school class all four years.

Dr. Riepe did his post graduate medical training at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. He is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. He has published and received national recognition clinically in the field of gastroenterology.
Since beginning on the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine in the Section of Digestive Diseases, Dr. Riepe has served in several positions including Clinical Director of Gastroenterology at Emory University Hospital and The Emory Clinic. He is a Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Riepe was in private practice for five years with Digestive Healthcare of Georgia and was Director of Endoscopy at Piedmont Hospital.
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Deborah Dunn, R.N., recently relocated from Miami, FL with 10 years LNC experience with several major Miami law firms. She graduated in 1985 with her associate in nursing degree from the Miami major teaching institute/county hospital Jackson Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. She holds a bachelor’s degree in natural health. Her 23 year nursing career includes the clinical areas of ICU, ED, home health, outpatient surgery and complimentary medicine.

Debra Baldwin, R.N. joined the firm in 2006. Debra has 22 years of experience in medical surgical nursing, clinical education, and performance improvement. She graduated from Georgia Baptist School of Nursing in 1986. She received her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Georgia Baptist College of Nursing in 1996, and a Masters of Art in Organizational Management from University of Phoenix in 2004. She was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society for nursing in 2000.
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G. Truett Jarrard, Jr., M.D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Stan Riepe, M.D., J.D.


Seated (L-R) Alison Berry, Deb Baldwin 
Standing (L-R) Becky Dowd, Debbie Dunn,


Rebecca W. Dowd, R.N., an Atlanta native, joined the firm in 2006. She previously worked as a legal nurse consultant at Allen, Weathington, and Reeves. Her clinical nursing experience began in 1982 in the surgical intensive care unit at Grady Memorial Hospital. Rebecca left Grady in 1985 to join the staff of the surgical ICU at Emory University Hospital, and in 1989 she accepted the position of Liver Transplant Coordinator at Emory. She continued in that role until becoming a legal nurse consultant in 1996. Rebecca graduated magna cum laude from The Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing in 1982. She received her Master of Nursing in 1989 from the Nell Hodgsen Woodruff School of Nursing. She is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society for nursing.
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L. Alison Berry, RNC, MSN joined the firm in 2007, having previously worked as a Legal Nurse Consultant for another Atlanta firm for eight and a half years. Alison grew up on St. Simons Island and she attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and the University of Alabama in Birmingham. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from UAB, and, while a student, worked in the Newborn Nursery at University Hospital. Upon graduation, she transferred to the Labor and Delivery unit and returned to school part-time to pursue a graduate degree. She completed requirements for her Master of Science of Nursing degree from UAB in 1983 and was elected into Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing. She moved to Atlanta later that year and continued her work in Labor and Delivery full-time, and then part-time, until 1998. Alison also worked in the perinatal home health industry and she served as Perinatal Outreach Educator for the Emory Regional Perinatal System at Grady Memorial Hospital for 4 years in the mid-1990s. She maintains her certification as an Inpatient Obstetrical Nurse and she has served her professional organization, AWHONN, on local, state, and national levels.
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