(licensed to practice only in California)
Representative Experience
National law practice
Medical group and independent practice association organizations
Hospital-physician joint ventures
HMO and insurance regulation
Reimbursement and antitrust
Prior Experience
Instructor at both the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Harvard School of Public Health
Representative Former Clients
American Medical Group Association
Hospital Council of Northern and Central California
Integrated Healthcare Association
The IPA Association of America
Publications and Presentations
Advisory Board, Harvard Health Policy Review
Editorial Board, Health Affairs
Editorial Board, BNA Health Law Reporter
Contributing Editor, California Medicine
Member, National Advisory Board, Integrated Healthcare Report
Lectures regularly before numerous organizations, including the Advisory Board, AMA, AHA, AMGA, MGMA, ACHE, the Harvard Business and Law Schools and the University of California's Institute for Health Policy Studies
Memberships and Activities
Pew Memorial Trust Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy Studies of the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Sierra Foundation Fellow
Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Health Care Law by Woodward/White, 1995-1996; 1997-98; 1999-2000; 2001-02; 2003-04; 2005-06; 2006; 2007; 2008
General counsel, IPA Association of America and the California Integrated Healthcare Association
Special counsel to the American Medical Group Association
Past President, California Society of Healthcare Attorneys
Past President,, Northern California Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association
Member, American Health Lawyers Association
Member, American Bar Association, Health Law Section
Other Positions:
President, Health Care Conference Administrators, LLC
Chair, Train for Compliance, LLC
Chair, Health IT Certification, LLC
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1988
- Dissertation entitled "The Struggle for the Control of California's Health Care Marketplace"
- Honorary Faculty Fellowship
J.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1979
M.A., Harvard University, 1975
Attended the Sorbonne and Free University of West Berlin
B.A. Plan II, with special honors, University of Texas at Austin, 1972
