Email: jeldridge@fosteld.com

Joan Eldridge was born in Rye, New York. She graduated from Jackson College of Tufts University with a B.S. in Biology and worked for several years as a research assistant in reproductive endocrinology.

Since graduating from Boston University School of Law, Ms. Eldridge has concentrated her practice in health care law and medical malpractice defense. The health care practice is risk management based, and includes advice to physicians and other care providers on treatment and on confidentiality issues, on handling of adverse outcomes, and on peer review. Ms. Eldridge also defends hospital-based employment suits. Her active appellate practice has included issues such as peer review, statutory interpretation, evidentiary issues, civil rights, and employment discrimination, and has resulted in decisions frequently cited as precedent by the appellate courts of the Commonwealth. She is a certified EMT-Basic. She is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, the United States Court of Appeals (for the First Circuit), and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.