William Creighton Woodward

William Creighton Woodward M.D., (December 11, 1867 – December 22, 1949) was a medical doctor and a lawyer who was the legislative counsel for the American Medical Association from 1922 to 1939.

He attended Georgetown University School of Medicine and graduated with an M.D.

[1] By 1903 he was secretary of the Board of Medical Supervisors of the District of Columbia.

[1] He was the head of the Bureau of Legal Medicine and Legislation at the American Medical Association starting in 1922.

[3][2] In 1938 as counsel for the American Medical Association he defended the AMA when the Sherman Antitrust Act was used to stop the AMA from preventing physicians from forming group practices.