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Neal Baer, SVU Producer: TV Doctors — Law & Order

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  • ABOUT Dr. Neal Baer

    Dr. Neal Baer is executive producer of the NBC television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. A member of the show's original staff and a writer and producer on the series for seven seasons, he was nominated for seven Emmys and received a Writers' Guild of America nomination. Dr. Baer serves on the boards of many organizations related to health care, including the Venice Family Clinic, RAND Health, and Children Now. He is a trustee of the Writers Guild of America Health and Pension Fund, and a member of the Board of Associates at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

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Recorded on November 6, 2010.

Dr. Neal Baer shares with the Festival audience his vast experience over the past 16 years as both a television producer and physician. As executive producer of Law & Order: SVU and ER, two of TV’s biggest medical dramas, he takes us behind the scenes for an insider’s view into how the shows are written and produced. Drawing on his training as a pediatrician, Dr. Baer discusses how he incorporates complex medical issues into episodes of Law & Order: SVU. With a unique vantage point as writer-doctor-producer, Dr. Baer provides unusual insight into how his shows have forever changed the way Hollywood presents medicine onscreen.

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