Management Team

Dr. Edward Hill, III is Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Juxtopia. Dr. Hill brings 23 years of experience as a physician executive and thought leader in the areas of physician performance evaluation; patient safety and clinical risk; clinical adversity surveillance; and various aspects of the physician medical-legal-regulatory interface.

Dr. Hill’s education includes receipt of the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) and the Juris Doctor (J.D.) degrees.

Dr. Hill’s senior physician executive experience includes serving as the Managing Director of Forensic Perinatal, LLC, which is a perinatal-neonatal neurological patient safety contract research organization (CRO). He also brings similar consulting experience as a strategic advisor to law firms throughout the nation engaged in complex medical-oriented disputes surrounding the medical mechanisms and causation of perinatal-neonatal neurological adversity.

Dr. Hill has served as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery during which he managed the Department of Navy’s involvement in the Civilian Physician External Peer Review Project (CPEPR), a national study mandated by U.S. Congress involving civilian physician panel evaluation of the quality of U.S. military physician care during 10,000 patient encounters. He also managed the Department of Navy’s participation in the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Health Care Organization’s (JCAHO) accreditation program for the Department of Navy’s 137 military treatment facilities worldwide. Dr. Hill also represented the Department of Navy’s participation in the initial planning and development of the National Practitioner Databank.

Dr. Hill served as a Senior Program Officer at the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine and served as the Study Director of “Environmental Justice: Research, Education, and Health Policy Needs”. This national study was commissioned by the President of the United States (Executive Order 12898) to determine policy-making direction concerning the adverse impact of environmental toxicants on minority and socio-economically deprived communities. The study results produced policy recommendations that were reported to the U.S. Congress and the body of work was subsequently published as a book by the National Academy Press (1999).

Dr. Hill’s involvement in technology innovation includes developing the clinical algorithm component of the following clinical performance innovations: a clinical software application determining patient adverse outcome risk based on physician management of specific clinical conditions and diagnoses; a clinical software application providing computer-generated interpretation of cardio-tocography tracings to promote uniformity of fetal surveillance interpretation and to decrease inter-observer and intra-observer physician variation; and a clinical software application providing real-time clinical decision guidance to and performance evaluation of nurses managing pregnant patients in labor. Dr. Hill also has experience as an angel investor of technology based companies and has years of experience working with venture capital firms focused in the emerging technology sector.

Mr. Jeffery A. Whitney is Chief Counsel of Juxtopia. Mr. Whitney has experience in civil litigation and sub-Saharan Africa matters. In this capacity, Mr. Whitney provides advice and counsel to individuals, investors, and companies on a variety of legal matters including immigration, corporate social responsibility advisory services, business consulting services, and commercial litigation and arbitration. In his capacity with Juxtopia, Mr. Jeffrey advises corporate strategy and growth and pools legal resources ranging from patent law and regulatory affairs to corporate litigation, when needed.

Mr. Whitney graduated from Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, GA) in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. In 1997, Mr. Whitney earned his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. While at Wisconsin, he was an Articles Editor for the Wisconsin Law Review and was selected to be a Teaching Assistant for the Legal Research and Writing Department.

Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Whitney clerked for the Honorable U.W. Clemon (ret.), former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama and the first African-American federal judge in the State of Alabama. Over the years, Mr. Whitney has obtained extensive experience, representing clients in state and federal courts across the country and before various administrative agencies and arbitrators.

Mr. Whitney is a member of the Alabama Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, the National Bar Association, the American Association of Justice, and the International Association of Black Professionals in International Affairs. Mr. Whitney has traveled extensively throughout Africa and the Caribbean and is asked to serve on a myriad of national and international boards for both profit and not-for-profit entities.