Both Georgia State University College of Law and the Atlanta Legal Aid Society support HeLP’s goals of delivering public health legal services, providing in-service educational programs and graduate professional education, and systemic advocacy on issues of community concern by employing and supporting essential staff. Georgia State law school employs three clinical faculty members, one of whom is HeLP’s overall Director, and an office manager to oversee the in-house legal clinic at the law school and to support the work of HeLP at Children’s hospitals. The Atlanta Legal Aid Society employs three staff attorneys and an office manager to provide on-site legal services and in-service education at the HeLP offices at Children’s hospitals.
Director of HeLP
Pamela Kraidler
HeLP at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Amanda Cole, Staff Attorney
Christina Scott, Staff Attorney
JoQuita Etchison, Office Manager
HeLP Legal Services Clinic at Georgia State University College of Law
Lisa Bliss, Co-Director, Associate Clinical Professor
Brooke Silverthorn, Co-Director, Associate Clinical Professor
Jimmy Mitchell, Assistant Clinical Professor
Mariana Pannell, Administrative Manager
Jennifer Grindell, Administrative Specialist
Lauren Richardson, Administrative Coordinator
HeLP Medical Director
Robert Pettignano, MD, FAAP, FCCM, MBA