Bruce C. Doeg, Program Co-Chair, is
a shareholder at Baker, Donelson,
Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC,
where he co-chairs the Mergers &
Acquisitions Group and also heads
eBusiness and Technology Law Group.
He concentrates his practice in the area
of business law, with an emphasis on
technology. His experience includes
public and private capital formation,
technology agreements, strategic
alliances, mergers and acquisitions,
website and eCommerce agreements,
healthcare information technology,
executive and employee compensation
issues, and corporate governance.
Deborah W. Larios, Program Co-Chair, is a member at Miller & Martin
PLLC, concentrating her practice on
healthcare law. She has extensive
experience in HIPAA and privacy
issues, managed care development,
hospital and physician relationships,
peer review, anti-kickback laws, the
Stark law, antitrust, and similar matters.
Ms. Larios represents numerous
healthcare entities and regularly
provides education on legal issues for
medical and hospital associations.
Henry S. Allen Jr. is a partner and
health care affinity group leader with
Holland & Knight LLP. Mr. Allen
practices exclusively in the health care
area where he has handled a broad
spectrum of business and litigation
matters. Much of his work is in the
antitrust and physician contracting and
credentialing areas.
Thomas E. Bartrum is a shareholder at
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell
& Berkowitz, PC, concentrating his
practice in the areas of regulatory and
transactional health care, including
fraud and abuse analyses, physician
self-referral issues, Medicare
reimbursement, licensure and certification,
eHealth transactions, health care
finance, health care joint ventures,
mergers and acquisition and HIPAA
compliance.
David Francis is Managing Director -
Equity Research at Jefferies & Co. Mr.
Francis’ experience is in equity
research and investment banking
activities in the health care market. He
heads the HCIT, medical distribution
and lab services research effort for the
firm.
Randy Gainer is a partner at Davis
Wright Tremaine LLP. He represents
technology companies in litigation and
drafts licensing and other agreements
for software and biotech firms. Mr.
Gainer also advises businesses on
computer security issues, including
how to respond to network intrusion
incidents and is an expert on the effect
of HIPAA security rules on the
deployment of WiFi networks and
Internet bankcard fraud.
Ard Geller is Senior Vice President and
Chief Consulting Officer at Technology
Solutions Company. Mr. Geller focuses
on evaluating, selecting, implementing,
and managing information technology
systems and is responsible for leading
the delivery of technology consulting
and systems integration services to
corporations around the world.
Dean W. Harvey is a partner at Vinson
& Elkins L.L.P. where he co-chairs the
Technology Practice Group. Mr.
Harvey’s practice focuses on commercial
transactions, counseling clients on
privacy, security, and electronic
contracts and establishing strategic
business relationships. He also assists
clients in protecting and exploiting their
intellectual property assets and content
through licensing and in acquiring and
developing technology and software.
George Kimball is a partner at Arnold
& Porter LLP, specializing in complex
technology transactions, including
outsourcing of information technology.
He has represented major corporations
as well as suppliers of information
technology, electronic commerce and
other services in the negotiation of
complex outsourcing arrangements in
aerospace, broadcasting, chemicals,
consumer products, computers,
engineering, insurance, metals,
pharmaceuticals and retail.
David C. Main, a partner in Shaw
Pittman LLP’s Health Care Group,
concentrates his practice on health care
transactional work, including corporate
formations; restructurings and
reorganizations; financings; contractual
arrangements; and regulatory,
operational and litigation matters. He
also concentrates on the formation and
development of health technology and
biotech companies, and is the founder
and coordinator of the Healthcare
Technology Network of Greater
Washington.
Mark Mayo is a partner with TPI
where he is responsible for the
information technology practice. In
addition, he leads the development and
delivery of TPI’s offshore sourcing
services. Mr. Mayo has supported
clients with sourcing transactions in the
airline, consumer product, energy,
financial regulatory, health care, human
resources, insurance, local government,
manufacturing, personal computer,
pharmaceutical, and utility industries.
William J. McDonough is Senior Vice
President and National Practice Leader
of Healthcare Risk Management at
Marsh USA, Inc. Mr. McDonough
manages with emphasis on clinical loss
prevention, captive readiness/
formation, risk identification and
damage control for the entire
healthcare continuum.
E. Andrew Norwood is a member of
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis. Mr.
Norwood has extensive experience in
the practice of law as it pertains to
intellectual property, including
copyright, trademark, First Amendment
issues, trade secrets, outsourcing and
licensing issues.
Mark J. Patterson is a partner at
Waddey & Patterson, P.C. where he is
a patent practitioner and trial attorney.
His primary practice involves the
writing and prosecution of patent
applications in the electrical, electronic,
and computer software arts including
business methods; patent, trademark
and copyright counseling, including
preparing validity and infringement
opinions; licensing; and litigation in all
areas of intellectual property law. He
has assisted clients in obtaining over
185 U.S. patents.
Glenn Perdue is a principal at LECG
where he works on engagements in
intellectual property, information
technology, strategy, healthcare,
business valuation, antitrust, risk
management, and damage analysis. Mr.
Perdue’s work in healthcare has
involved claim studies, system
selection, IT-related RFI/RFP
management, damage analysis, antitrust
analysis, new market entry analysis,
HIPAA privacy/security, and valuations
for hospitals, sleep labs, ASC’s, and
ESRD facilities.
Edward A. Pisacreta is a partner at
Brown Raysman Millstein Felder &
Steiner LLP where he concentrates his
practice in e-commerce, information
technology. He has extensive experience
in drafting and negotiating
agreements for the acquisition of ecommerce
infrastructure, design and
development of software, outsourcing,
and intellectual property licensing. He
serves as a member of the firm’s
Bioinformatics/Life Sciences Group
where he deals with the license of
bioinformatics tools, and life sciences
technology and products.
Rhonda W. Sides is the Director of
Healthcare Services for Crosslin,
Vaden & Associates and for Stat
Solutions. Ms. Sides specializes in
physician practice management issues,
HIPAA compliance, Stark compliance
and physician compensation issues,
entity contracts, practice valuations,
cost accounting, operational assessments,
accounts receivable, and
financial feasibility issues related to
group and integrated delivery system
development.
Tim Unger is Vice President of FCG
Meditech Service Center, where he is
responsible for business development,
key client relationships and providing
overall strategic direction for the
growing company. Over the past five
years, Unger started two successful
organizations, merged the practices and
continues to grow the business rapidly,
while maintaining profitability. |
