Ryan Abbott

Ryan is a neutral with JAMS, Inc., based in the United States and United Kingdom. He has served as a law firm partner focused on dispute resolution in the life science and technology industries, and he has been general counsel to biotechnology companies. In these capacities, he has substantial mediation experience as outside and inside counsel for both claimants and respondents. He has also worked as an expert, including for the European Commission, the United Kingdom Parliament, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In addition to his ADR practice, Ryan is professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey School of Law and adjunct assistant professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles. He is a graduate of the University of California San Diego School of Medicine (MD), Yale Law School (JD), and the University of Surrey School of Law (PhD). Ryan lectures frequently on mediation and alternative dispute resolution, and he has numerous publications in the field. Ryan is a solicitor advocate in England and Wales, a patent attorney and attorney in the United States (licensed in California and New York), and a licensed physician board certified by the American Board of Legal Medicine.