Dusty Otwell J.D.

Dusty is VP and Chief Risk Officer at US Acute Care Solutions. He also serves as President and Corporate Secretary for Clinician Assurance Risk Retention Group, the self-insurance carrier for USACS. He is a faculty member of the Center for Emergency Medical Education and teaches the High-Risk Emergency Medicine course.

Dusty oversees all claims defense, insurance, and enterprise risk management for USACS, the largest physician-owned provider of integrated acute care medicine. USACS serves more than ten million patients annually at more than 400 programs. Dusty is responsible for industry-leading results on malpractice risk management, consistently achieving claims rates less than one-half of comparable benchmarks.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Auburn University and his law degree from Cumberland School of Law, Samford University. He is licensed in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas, and holds a corporate counsel registration in Ohio.