Jeff Segal JD | MD

As a neurosurgeon turned serial entrepreneur, Jeffrey J. Segal, JD, MD, has literally been in both business and medicine. Segal was a neurosurgeon in private practice before beginning the second phase of his career as a serial entrepreneur in the health care field. Segal then founded or co-founded four separate health care startups. He lives and breathes health care and understands it viscerally. Segal was perfectly happy practicing as a neurosurgeon. In 1996, his wife gave birth to twins, and at age 3, his son, Josh, was diagnosed with autism and epilepsy. Segal took a year off to focus on Josh, intending to go back to practicing neurosurgery. In that year, he became convinced that a certain pharmaceutical compound might help Josh, and that compound was sitting on a shelf at the University of North Carolina. Segal approached the scientists who created this drug, and, collectively, they founded a biotechnology company to move their compounds from “bench to bed.” Segal never went back to the practice of neurosurgery. His son is now 24 and has improved by leaps and bounds. Segal never misses the opportunity when sharing this powerful story to give a shout out to his wife, Shelley, and Josh’s twin sister, Jordan, who have been great “partners” for this unexpected ride in life. Next, Segal founded Medical Justice, which touched on so many medico-legal issues. While he was working with many talented attorneys, it became clear that better understanding the law and becoming an attorney would allow him to be more effective in running Medical Justice. Segal's philosophy is simple: Solve a client’s problem. Law is just one tool in the toolkit to achieve this goal. Segal also runs eMerit, which helps doctors control their online reputation through patient feedback. While he remains busy running Medical Justice and eMerit, Segal also needed a home for his law practice. Clients of ByrdAdatto, Medical Justice and eMerit now have, using Segal's words, more tools in the toolkit.