Matthew P. Keris.

Elected and Appointed

Matthew P. Keris, shareholder in the Scranton office of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, was elected the Atlantic regional director of the Defense Research Institute (DRI). Keris previously was DRI's Pennsylvania state representative and membership chair.

He will serve a three-year term on the organization's board of directors, to culminate in 2021.

A member of Marshall Dennehey's health care department, Keris represents physicians, medical groups and health care institutions in a variety of health care liability matters. In addition to his defense practice, he lectures nationally on litigation issues pertaining to the use of electronic medical records.