Practice Areas

• Clinical Integration Strategies
• Compliance Counsel
• Fraud & Abuse/Stark
• General Business Transactions & Services
• Health Information Technology
• HIPAA, Privacy & Security
• Hospital & Health System Counsel
• Hospital & Physician Transactions
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Physician Alignment
• Security Breach & Compliance

Preparatory Education

• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, B.S.

Legal Education

• University of Michigan, J.D.

Admitted to Bar

• California
• Michigan

Memberships

• American Bar Association
• California Bar Association
• American Health Lawyers Association
• California Society for Healthcare Attorneys
• Michigan Bar Association

Experience

• Attorney, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, 2007-2009

Honors

• Martha Van Rensselaer and Charles H. Ferguson Scholarships at Cornell University
• Recognized as an "Outstanding Senior" at Cornell University
• Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society

Publications

• Author of American Health Lawyers Association knowledge bank tool related to proposed HITECH changes under the Office of Civil Rights Proposed Modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy, Security, and Enforcement Rules under the HITECH Act, August 2010.
• Quoted in "Bracing for New Compliance World of Healthcare Reform," Compliance Week, May 2010.
• Co-author of American Health Lawyers Association Teaching Hospital Updates, 2009-2010
• Contributing Author, The World Bank's Doing Business 2009.

Presentations

• Internal Compliance Investigations & Self-Disclosure Issues (Michigan Association of CPAs); April 28, 2011.
• Fraud and Abuse and HITECH Changes for Compliance Programs (Southeastern Michigan Health Information Management Association); November 30, 2010.
• HITECH for Group Health Plans and Business Associates (Employee Benefits Committee and the Health Care Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan); November 4, 2010.