Mr. Dawson is an experienced attorney, healthcare policy, law & regulatory professional with a specific focus on analyzing healthcare costs. Part of his work revolves around the analysis and development of payment and reimbursement structures to determine the pricing of care in the healthcare market.
Mr. Dawson earned his Master’s in Public Health from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and his Juris Doctorate from the George Washington University School of Law. Mr. Dawson is also a barred attorney in the District of Columbia. Before receiving his Master’s in Public Health and law degree, he studied at the University of Florida and received his Master’s of Arts in Philosophy as a Ph.D. Candidate.
As a health policy professional, Mr. Dawson has worked in both public and private organizations compiling and reviewing data, generating ideas, and implementing solutions to various problems facing the healthcare industry. He has served in numerous roles before the legislative and executive branches of the federal government, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, and private sector consulting firms. As Healthcare Counsel for the United States House Committee on Small Business during the Obama Administration's healthcare reform initiative, Mr. Dawson assisted healthcare providers with improving their position in relation to federal and commercial reimbursement structures. Mr. Dawson later served as the senior congressional lobbyist for the American Dental Association, specifically working with senior congressional staff to address and amend statutory provisions impacting the dental, medical, and allied healthcare professional communities that arose out of healthcare reform.
Today, Mr. Dawson is a member of the National Association of Forensic Economics, among other professional organizations. Mr. Dawson founded Tom Dawson and Partners LLC in 2010 and co-founded TD&P Consulting, a national consulting firm that has provided healthcare, litigation, and economic analysis to the legal community since 2015.
Tom Dawson is married to Jessica Dawson and has three children: Thomas J. Dawson IV, Amara Proctor, and William J. Dawson II.