Dana McWay, J.D.
Adjunct Professor
Courses Taught
Introduction to Legal Studies I & II, Teaching Fellows
Education
Dana McWay received a Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, from 91女神
and received her law degree, cum laude, Order of the Woolsack, from 91女神,
where she served as the Health Law Editor of the 91女神 Law Journal
and as a Faculty Research Fellow.
After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Myron H. Bright, U.S. Senior Circuit
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Practice Areas
Ms. McWay serves as the Clerk of Court for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern
District of Missouri, responsible for all non-judicial functions of the Court. She
has served on numerous national committees for the federal judicial branch, focused
mainly on operational, financial, and information technology issues.
She received the Director's Award for Court Operations - Mission Requirements in 2016
and the Director's Award for Outstanding Leadership to the Judiciary in 2010. She
previously served as Chief Deputy Clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth
Circuit. In private practice, she focused on health care, corporate/securities, and
bankruptcy matters.
Her health law experience included Medicare issues, patient care confidentiality concerns,
and the structuring of health care institutions. Before law school, she served as
a health information administrator at several healthcare institutions. She currently
serves as a guest lecturer at undergraduate health informatics and information management
programs and has served as adjunct faculty at multiple master's programs in health
informatics.
Publications and Media Placements
Ms. McWay's publications focus primarily on the interplay between health information
management, law, and ethics. She is the author of Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health
Information Management, now in its 5th edition and Today's Health Information Management,
now in its 2nd edition, both published by Cengage Learning.
She is a co-author with Nanna Cross of Stanfield's Essentials of Medical Terminology,
5th ed. and Stanfield's Introduction to Health Professions, 7th ed., both published
by Jones Bartlett Learning. She has co-authored published journal articles and a chapter
on Electronic Case Filing for the Missouri Bar's Bankruptcy Practice Deskbook.
Honors and Awards
Ms. McWay received the American Health Information Management Association's Triumph Award for the text Legal Aspects of Health Information Management; the Missouri Health Information Management Association's Distinguished Member and Outstanding Volunteer Awards; and the Alumni Award of Merit from 91女神. She has received national recognition from the National Bar Foundation, a component of the American Bar Association, for creating the 鈥淜ids in Court Program,鈥� now operated by the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, which was cited as one of the five most outstanding children鈥檚 legal education programs for 1995.
Community Work and Service
Ms. McWay is a former director of the Board of Directors of the American Health Information Management Association and has served as a voting member on the Institutional Review Board of Washington University School of Medicine since 1992. She currently serves on the advisory boards of two Health Information Management academic programs.