Andrew J. Waghorn has provided legal support to health care oversight since September 2016. He was born in Islip, New York, in 1965, the youngest of eight children. Mr. Waghorn attended Catholic University, receiving a B.A., in political science in 1987. A recipient of the Frank A. Giordano Scholarship, Mr. Waghorn completed his legal education at Catholic University, the Columbus School of Law, earning a J.D. in 1990. He was a Member of Law Review, the Moot Court Association, and a finalist in several moot court competitions.

After law school, Mr. Waghorn obtained a direct Commission as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate Generals’ Corp. He began his military career in Newport, Rhode Island where he represented the Navy in medical malpractice claims filed under the Federal Torts Claims Act. He later served as part of a highly competitive mobile JAG team, flying onto Navy ships in the Persian Gulf with a prosecutor and judge to defend sailors and Marines before courts-martial and administrative discharge hearings. Returning stateside, Mr. Waghorn served at the Washington Navy Yard, drafting appellate briefs and presenting oral arguments in appeals of criminal convictions before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Serving his country with distinction, Mr. Waghorn received the National Defense Medal, the Navy Commendation Medal, and the Navy Achievement Medal, among other military decorations.

From 1998-2000, Mr. Waghorn served the District of Columbia as an Assistant Corporation Counsel where he defended police officers against claims of excessive force, false imprisonment, deprivation of medical care, and other civil rights claims alleging police misconduct under 42 U.S.C., Section 1983. He also represented D.C. General Hospital and medical care providers in civil actions alleging medical malpractice.

From 2000-2016, Mr. Waghorn engaged in all aspects of civil litigation in state and federal courts in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland. His primary focus was in the areas of medical malpractice, automobile negligence, and neglect at nursing home and assisted living facilities. Over this period of time Mr. Waghorn had the opportunity to represent both the victims of alleged malpractice as well as doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers in cases involving delayed cancer diagnoses, failure to prevent strokes, traumatic brain injuries, surgical and anesthesia misadventures, failures in emergency, nursing, and critical care, falls at hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities, and injuries and/or death to newborns, including cerebral palsy, stillbirth, spina bifida, and shoulder dystocia.

Mr. Waghorn has a passion for helping military veterans and their widows and dependents. For 15 years he represented individuals who were denied disability and other benefits before VA regional offices across the country, the Board of Veterans Appeals, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans’ Claims, and the US. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.

Jonathan had a 28 year career as a litigator in Manhattan, including as an Assistant District Attorney under acclaimed District Attorney Robert M. Morganthau (1990-1995), as an associate, then partner in a midtown Manhattan law firm doing health care related litigation (1995-1998,1998-2000), and as a founding member of law firms Jonathan Ginsberg & Associates (2000-2005) and Mangan Ginsberg (2011-2017). During that time, he tried and participated in trying over 50 cases to verdict and in many hundreds of settlements before judges, juries, and arbitrators in courts in New York, in New Jersey, in criminal and civil matters ranging from homicides to 38 U.S.C. Section 1983 civil rights matters, to tort cases involving catastrophic injuries with seven figure damages, an $8 million commercial dispute involving dissolution of a law firm, and assisted in obtaining vacatur of a $250 million dollar default judgment against an individual shareholder in Texas of an export business located in the Middle East.

Jonathan has performed health care oversight on a broad variety of issues including quality, compliance, confidentiality, privilege, and privacy on a local, regional and national scale since 2018. He began serving as a mediator in 2023.

For academics he graduated Binghamton University (B.A., 1987) with honors, and with academic honors in English, and The George Washington University Law School (J.D., 1990), was a Trustee Scholar in 1988, and a member of the District of Columbia Circuit Court Inns of Court from 1988 to 1989.

As a mediator he prides himself on having the maturity, experience and discretion to serve as a neutral arbiter of critical disputes. He has the courtroom and appellate experience to understand the challenges litigators face on either side of the bar, the risks and uncertainties of contested, public litigations, and the benefit that mediation can provide including certainty, finality and efficiency.