Katherine Benesch

Katherine Benesch

Katherine Benesch practices primarily in the areas of healthcare law, litigation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), with particular emphasis on physician group practices, hospitals, hospital-physician relationships, credentialing, academic medical centers, faculty practice plans, state and federal regulatory matters, fraud and abuse, including Stark Law, anti-kickback and False Claims Act issues, managed care, contracting and employment and licensing matters. As a litigator, Ms. Benesch represents clients in trial and appellate cases and administrative hearings involving physician, hospital and managed care liability, contract, credentialing, commercial, employment and reimbursement disputes, state licensure issues and research misconduct. As an arbitrator, she handles many types of cases, including disputes over clinical research trials.

Ms. Benesch is a member of the American, Mercer County, New Jersey and Pennsylvania bar associations, the American Health Lawyers Association (a former vice chair of its Labor & Employment Law Practice Group), the Healthcare Financial Management Association and is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She has written numerous articles and lectured throughout the country on healthcare and litigation issues. Ms. Benesch is a member of the Advisory Board of the BNA Health Law Reporter and the American Arbitration Association Healthcare Advisory Council, and is chair of the CPR Healthcare and Life Sciences Committee.

Ms. Benesch is a past president of the Princeton Bar Association, past chair of the Health and Hospital Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, past chair of the Princeton Regional Health Commission and past governor of the American Bar Association Health Law Section. Ms. Benesch serves on the Commercial Panel of the American Arbitration Association and is an arbitrator and mediator for the American Health Lawyers Association. She has served as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and is on the Technical Review Board of the Princeton Journal of Bioethics. She was named by Nightingale's Healthcare News as one of twelve Outstanding Hospital Attorneys for 2004 and has been elected a Super Lawyer by her peers every year from 2005 to the present.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, Ms. Benesch is a graduate of Duquesne University School of Law, Yale University School of Medicine (M.P.H.) and Wheaton College.

Areas of Practice

· Healthcare Law

· Healthcare and Commercial Litigation

· Regulatory Compliance

· Alternate Dispute Resolution

· Employment Law

Representative Matters

· Arbitrator interpreting complex managed care contract for radiology services and determining reimbursement of 700 contract claims.

· Lead Counsel in successful re-negotiation of multimillion-dollar exclusive contract to staff nonprofit hospital emergency department.

· Lead Counsel in D'Arrigo v. South Jersey Health System, et al. (N.J.) (represented key defendant in action by a suspended physician in state trial, appellate and supreme courts, resulting in dismissal of client after 7 years of litigation).

· Lead Counsel to home health services corporation in litigation in administrative hearing and appellate court resulting in reimbursement under state health insurance plan.

· Counsel to ophthalmology ambulatory surgery center.

· Counsel to national telemedicine corporation in development of physician services and hospital contracts throughout the U.S.

· Negotiation of all managed care contracts for academic medical center faculty of over 500 physicians.

· Counsel for academic medical center in development of cardiothoracic surgery program.

· Counsel to academic medical center faculty in acquisition of large orthopedic surgery practice.

· Counsel in numerous matters in state and federal trial and appellate courts involving the rights of physicians to practice medicine as a member of a hospital staff (cases have involved multiple claims, including breach of contract, antitrust, defamation, tortious interference with business relationships, age discrimination and infliction of emotional distress. Results that clients found favorable were achieved prior to trial in all cases.)

· Arbitrator restructuring physicians' practices and resolving medical practice shareholder disputes.

· Counsel to large nonprofit hospital on Stark, anti-kickback and Medicare reimbursement matters.

· Mediation of a $25 million managed care reimbursement lawsuit, which was resolved through the renegotiation of a $400 million nationwide business agreement between the parties.

· Development and representation of professional corporations on two campuses for the full-time faculty of a major academic medical center.

· Representation of healthcare and other professionals and organizations in administrative hearings before state licensing boards, the Department of Banking and Insurance and Division of Consumer Affairs, with successful outcomes in almost all cases.

· New Jersey and Pennsylvania Defense Counsel to one of the premier national research laboratories in the country in cases in federal and state courts involving the Freedom of Information Act, the False Claims Act, its qui tam (whistleblower) provisions and routine commercial litigation. (All cases against clients were dismissed.)

· Representation of professional corporations and healthcare organizations in mergers and acquisitions, including development of governance, operational and compensation documents.

Professional Activities

· American Health Lawyers Association
- Vice Chair, Labor and Employment Law Practice Group, 2001-2004
- Certified Healthcare Mediator

· American Bar Association
- Health Law Section
-- Former Governor
- Tort and Insurance Practice Section
-- Medicine and Law Committee
--- Former Vice Chair
- Medical Malpractice Advisory Panel

· American Bar Foundation
- Fellow

· New Jersey State Bar Association
- Former Chair, Health and Hospital Law Section

· Princeton Bar Association
- Former President

· Mercer County Bar Association

· Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey

· Pennsylvania Bar Association
- House of Delegates
- Vice Chair, Judicial Inquiry and Review Board Committee
- Civil Litigation and Labor Sections

· Allegheny County Bar Association
- Board of Governors
- Former Chair, Young Lawyers Section

· Healthcare Financial Management Association

· American Arbitration Association
- Commercial Arbitration Panel

· Special Master, Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County

· Arbitrator, Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust

· Arbitrator, Dalkon Shield Program, Duke University Private Adjudication Center

· Academy of Trial Lawyers

· University of Pittsburgh Center for Medical Ethics

· Catholic Health Association of the United States
- Committee on Legal Services

· Robert Wood Johnson University Medical School
- Adjunct Professor, 2001-2006

· Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1981-1993

Experience

· Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2001-present

· Archer & Greiner, P.C., Princeton, New Jersey
- Partner, 1999-2001

· Law Offices of Katherine Benesch, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
(formerly Benesch & Obade, P.C.)
- Principal, 1994-1998

· Hannoch Weisman, Trenton, New Jersey
- Director, 1991-1994

· Katherine Benesch & Associates, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Attorney, 1986-1991

· Mellon Bank Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Attorney, 1984-1986

· Specter & Buchwach, P.C., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Associate, 1982-1984

· Presbyterian-University Hospital
- Assistant Executive Director and Legal Counsel, 1980-1981

· Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote
- Associate, 1977-1980

Board Memberships

· Advisory Board, BNA Health Law Reporter

· Associates Board, McCarter Theatre

· Princeton University Bioethics Journal, Editorial Board

Civic and Charitable Activities

· Board Member, Association for the Advancement of Mental Health, 2002- present

· Chairman, Regional Health Commission, Princeton, New Jersey, 1995-1997

· Board Member, McCarter Theater, Princeton, 1994-2000

Honors and Awards

· Elected by peers as New Jersey Super Lawyer, 2005-present

· Named by Nightingale's Healthcare News as one of twelve Outstanding Hospital Attorneys, 2004

· Appointed Chair, Healthcare and Life Sciences Committee, International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR)

· Appointed to AAA Healthcare Advisory Council

· Advisory Board, BNA Health Law Reporter

Selected Publications

· "The Shifting Balance of Power in Hospital-Medical Staff Relationships," BNA Health Law Reporter, May 7, 2009

· "Basic Licensure and Credentialing: Is It About Quality At All?" Pennsylvania Bar Institute, March 2009

· "Non-Physician Practitioners (NPPs): More Care, Less Cost, Different Law?" American Health Lawyers Association Physicians & Hospitals Law Institutes, February 2009

· "Stark Law Phase III and the Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) Final Rule," New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, February 2009

· "Recent Developments in New Jersey: A Hotbed of Healthcare Legal Activity," Pennsylvania Bar Institute, March 2008

· "Revised Medical Staff Accreditation Standard Causes Consternation," Duane Morris Alert, November 2007. (Reprinted online as "Medical Staff Standard Revisions Need Scrutiny," Health Law360, November 2007.)

· "The Increasing Use of Arbitration and Mediation in Adjudicating Healthcare Cases," New Jersey Lawyer, April 2007

· Advanced Strategies in Managed Care Contracting, American Health Lawyers Association, June 2006

· Update on Covenants Not to Compete: Will They Survive in the Healthcare Industry? American Health Lawyers Association, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 2006

· "Covenants Not to Compete And Healthcare: A Fifty State Survey," 39 Journal of Health Law 161, Winter 2006

· "Does Nursing Home Compare Offer the Wrong Impression to Consumers?" 6 Long Term Care Interface 34, May 2005

· "Joint Negotiation OK by Doctors Under the New New Jersey Law," Newsletter of the American College of Surgeons, New Jersey Chapter, Spring 2002

· "Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. United States ex rel. Stevens: The Affirmation and Limitation of Private Party Qui Tam Actions under the False Claims Act," American Bar Association, Winter 2000-2001

· "New and Revised Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, September 2000

· "Selected Fraud and Abuse Laws, Regulations and Penalties," Lorman Education Services, July 2000

· "The Fundamentals of ERISA: Implications for Managed Care," American Health Lawyers Association, December 1999

· "Managed Care Liability: The Fundamentals of ERISA," Mealey Publications, Inc., March 1999

· "Employer Liability for Managed Care: A Cloud on the Horizon," 7 Managing Employee Health Benefits, 32, Fall 1998

· "Health-Care Fraud Criminalization Growing," 7 New Jersey Lawyer 1422, June 22, 1998

·"Fraud and Abuse Enforcement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, May 1998

· "Making Physician Consolidation Work: Acquisition and Employment Contracts and Negotiations," National Health Lawyers Association, March 1997

· "Managed Care Liability: Maturity Leads to Increased Risk," Mealey Publications, Inc., October 1997

· "Managed Care Liability: An Expansion of Familiar Theories," 9 (3) The Health Lawyer, 1997

· "Liability Concerns in Managed Care," New Jersey Medicine, 57, November 1996

· "Emerging Theories of Liability for Negligent Credentialing in HMOs, Integrated Delivery and Managed Care Systems, 9 (1) The Health Lawyer, 14, Fall 1996

· "Credentialing in Managed Care Systems," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, March 1995

· "The Tyranny of Technology: The Case of Baby K," 9 Trends in Health Care, Law & Ethics, 47, Winter 1994

· "AIDS and the ADA in the Health Care Workplace," 23 The Brief, 22, Spring 1994

· "Contract Negotiation: The Means of Survival for Hospital Medical Staffs," 7 Capital Physician Quarterly, 21, Spring 1994

· "HIV-Positive Healthcare Professionals and the Americans With Disabilities Act," Newsletter of the American Bar Association TIPS Medicine and Law Committee, Winter 1993

· "Medical Staff Privileges and Economic Credentialing," 8 Trends in Health Care, Law & Ethics, 59, Fall 1993

· "Why the Hospital Medical Staff Needs Its Own Attorney," 6 Capital Physician Quarterly, 44, Summer 1993

· "The Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act on the Ability of Health Care Providers to Practice Their Profession," Governmental Responsibilities under the ADA, August 1993

· "Credentialing Criteria Put Hospitals at Risk," 133 New Jersey Law Journal, 10 April 5, 1993

· "The Dilemma of the HIV-Positive Member of the Medical Staff," Catholic Health Association of the United States, March 1993

· "Economic Credentialing and the Fraud and Abuse Caveat," 6 Medical Staff Counselor, 27, Fall 1992

· "Cost-Benefit Factors in New Case Selection," 28 Trial, 20, January 1992

· "Foregoing Life-Sustaining Therapy in Hopeless Cases," Textbook on Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care, 1992

· "Corporate Liability for Practitioner Negligence," ABA Forum Committee on Health Law, November 1990

· "Medical Staff Privileges: Competition for Physician Profits," 25 Trial, 57, May 1989

· "The Duty to Treat AIDS Patients," 24 Trial, 22, May 1988

· "Legal Issues in Determining Competence to Make Treatment Decisions," Legal Implications of Hospital Policies and Practices, Spring 1989

· "Privileges and Confidentiality," Medical and Hospital Negligence, 1988

· Editor, Medicolegal Aspects of Critical Care, Aspen, 1986

· "Medical Staff Privileges: Challenging Rejection or Termination," 20 Trial, 28 May 1984

· The Hospital Emergency Room: Haven and Hazard," 19 Trial, 78, May 1983

· "Medical and Legal Aspects of Brain Death Certification and Withdrawal of Life Support in Hopeless Cases," Principles and Practice of Critical Care, 1983

· "Risk Management in Pennsylvania Hospitals: Panacea or Poison?," 47 Insurance Counsel Journal 334, July 1980

Selected Speaking Engagements

· "Fraud and Abuse Risks of Conducting Clinical Research Trials," National Audioconference on Clinical Trials: Emerging Threats, Strafford Publications, 2009

· "Non-Physician Practitioners (NPPs): More Care, Less Cost, Different Law?" American Health Lawyers Association Physicians & Hospitals Law Institutes, Phoenix, 2009

· "Stark Law Phase III and the Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) Final Rule," New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, Edison, New Jersey, 2009

· "Powers of Attorney: Medical Records Release Concerns," Lorman Education Services Teleconference, 2009

· "Should Doctors Continue to Participate in Managed Care?" Physicians and Physician Organizations Law Institute national conference sponsored by the American Health Lawyers Association, Orlando, Florida, February 13-14, 2008

· "Stark Law: Changes in the Phase III Final Rule," New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, Edison, New Jersey, 2007

· "Opportunities in Physician Risk Agreements and Joint Ventures," New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, Edison, New Jersey, 2007

· "Advanced Strategies in Managed Care Contracting" - American Health Lawyers Association, Philadelphia, 2006

· "Update on Covenants Not to Compete: Will They Survive in the Healthcare Industry?" American Health Lawyers Association, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 2006

· "Gainsharing Revisited," New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 2005

· "Medical Group Practices: Regulatory Minefields," Beard Conference on Physicians' Agreements and Ventures, Chicago, 2004

· "A Partnership Approach to Restructuring Managed Care Contacts," Annual Meeting of the American Health Lawyers Association, New York City, June 2004

· "Summary of Federal Protections for Impaired Healthcare Workers," American Health Lawyers Association (Teleconference), 2004 "Tools to Avoid Lawsuits: Effective Risk Management"- Gerontology Institute of New Jersey, Edison, New Jersey, 2004

· "Emerging Issues in Peer Review and Court Oversight of Medical Staff Decisions," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 2003.

· "Restructuring Provider Contracts in Light of Most Recent Legislative and Regulatory Reform," American Conference Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 30, 2003

· "Erosion of the Peer Review Privilege," National Teleconference sponsored by the American Health Lawyers Association, May 29, 2003

· "Managed Care Liability and ERISA Preemption," ALI-ABA program on Litigation Medical Malpractice Claims, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 5-6, 2003

· "Finding and Working with Experts," American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA), Philadelphia, 2003

· "The Application of the Sarbanes-Oxley Law to Non Profit Healthcare Organizations," New Jersey Hospital Association, May 28, 2003

· "HIPAA Final Privacy Rule and Implementation of HIPAA in a Provider Setting," Medical Education Services, Inc., Edison, New Jersey, March 24, 2003

· "The Success of Alternate Dispute Resolution in Resolving Healthcare Cases," Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2003; New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, September 2002

· "Long-Term Care Malpractice: Are the 5 Myths True?" Gerontology Institute of New Jersey Seminar, West Caldwell, New Jersey, October 22, 2002.

· "Practical Considerations for Health Care Employees and Physicians Faced with Mandatory Arbitration," American Health Lawyers Association, San Francisco, July 3, 2002

· "Liability & Risk Management in LTC: How to Prevent and Resolve Disputes with Patients, Families and Employees," Gerontology Institute of New Jersey Seminar, Andover, New Jersey, March 12, 2002

· Moderator, National Teleconference, "Mandatory Arbitration in Employment - The Impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's Decisions in Waffle House and Circuit City and the Practical Realities of Implementing a Mandatory Arbitration Program," American Health Lawyers Association, March 6, 2002.

· "Medicine and the Law" (for second year medical students), Robert Wood Johnson University Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, 2001

· "Update on ERISA and Managed Care Liability," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2001.

· "JCAHO Sentinel Events Policy and Compliance Guidance for Small Physician Practices," American Society of Abdominal Surgeons, Tampa, Florida, 2000

· "New and Revised Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2000

· "Negotiating with Managed Care," Physicians Conference 2000, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 2000

· "ERISA, Healthcare Reform and Managed Care: What is the Effect on Medical Malpractice?," American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA), San Francisco, California, November 1999

· "Managed Care Contracting," American Medical Association, New York, New York, March 1999

· "Fundamentals of ERISA," Mealey's HMO Liability Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, 1999

· "Hot Topics in Thriving Practice Areas: Health Law," Duquesne University Law School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1999

· "The Evolution of Managed Care Liability: ERISA and Consumer Protection Laws," American Health Lawyers Association, Chicago, Illinois, December 1998

· "Fraud and Abuse under the HIPAA and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, New Brunswick New Jersey, 1998

· "Making Managed Care Costs Manageable," Risk Insurance and Management Society, Inc., San Diego, California, 1998

· Program Chair, "Liability Frontiers in a Changing Health Care Environment: How Far Can It Go?," American Conference Institute, New York, New York, January 1997

· "Emerging Theories of Liability in Managed Care," Mealey's Managed Care Law and Litigation Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1997

· "When is Medical Fraud Really Fraud: What Have We Learned from Columbia/HCA?," Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1997

· "Legal Remedies and Responses to Fraud and Abuse Charges," Home Health Assembly of New Jersey, Jamesburg, New Jersey, 1997

· "How to Handle Problems with Expert Witnesses," Trial Advocacy Institute, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1997

· "Managed Care Liability," Intermediary and Reinsurance Underwriters Association, New York, New York, 1997

· "Managed Care: Litigating the HMO Case," American Bar Association, Washington, D.C., 1997

· "Making Physician Consolidation Work: Acquisition and Employment Contracts and Negotiations," National Health Lawyers Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1997

· "Peer Review, Credentialing and Corporate Liability in Managed Care," American Conference Institute, New York, New York, 1997

· "The Changing Nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationship: Will it Survive Managed Care?," Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1997

· "Sale of a Physician Practice," New Jersey State Bar Association, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1997

· "Demonstration of Cross Examination Techniques," Trial Advocacy Institute, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1996

· "Is Assisted Suicide Now Legal?," Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1996

· "Legal Issues in Home Care Marketing," Home Health Assembly of New Jersey, Princeton, New Jersey, 1996

· "Credentialing in Managed Care Systems," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1995

· "Liability for Negligent Credentialing in Managed Care Systems," Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1995

· Program Chair, "Credentialing '94: New Issues in Managed Care, Integrated Deliver Systems and the Changing Healthcare Environment," ABA Forum on Health Law, San Francisco, California and Nashville, Tennessee, Fall 1994

· "Emerging Theories of Liability Against Healthcare Payors and Providers," ABA Forum on Health Law, San Francisco, California and Nashville, Tennessee, 1994

· "Peer Review and Credentialing - Recent Liability Developments," ABA National Institute, Washington, D.C., 1994

· Program Chair, "New Issues in Medical Staff/Hospital Relationships," American Bar Association Forum on Health Law, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Illinois, and San Francisco, California, April 1993

· "The Impact of The Americans with Disabilities Act on the Ability of Health Care Providers to Practice Their Profession," ABA Annual Meeting Presidential Showcase Program, New York, New York, 1993

· "Hot Topics in Medical Staff Credentialing: Economic Credentialing and HIV-Affected Practitioners," ABA Forum on Health Law, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Illinois, San Francisco, California, 1993

· "The Dilemma of the HIV-Positive Member of the Medical Staff," Catholic Health Association 1993 Attorney Forum, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1993

· "Financial Arrangements Between Physicians and Hospitals - a Legal Perspective," Medical Society of the State of New York, Rye, New York, 1993

· "Medicare/Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Law and The Safe Harbor Regulations," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Edison, New Jersey, 1992; New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1994

· "The Nuts and Bolts of Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for Health Care in New Jersey and Pennsylvania," Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1992

· "Health Care - Evolution and Innovation in the 90's - Panel Discussion," The Venture Association of New Jersey, Inc., Morristown, New Jersey, 1992

· "Alternate Dispute Resolution in the Health Care Field," American Academy of Hospital Attorneys, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1992

· "Durable Powers of Attorney and Living Wills after Cruzan," Forbes Health System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991

· "Selected Regulatory Issues Affecting the Medical Staff and Hospital," ABA Forum on Health Law, San Francisco, California, 1991

· "Corporate Liability for Practitioner Negligence," ABA Forum on Health Law, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1990

· "Persistent Vegetative State: The Right to Die after Cruzan," Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburgh, Pennsylvania, 1990

· "Presenting a Persuasive Demand," Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Scranton and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1990

· "Selected Regulatory Issues Affecting the Medical Staff and Hospital," ABA Forum on Health Law, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989

· "Laws Dealing with Confidentiality, Privacy and Defamation," Allegheny County Bar Association Seminar on Drug Testing in the Workplace, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1989

· "Sexual Harassment," Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1989

· "The Physician-Patient Relationship," University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1989

· "Pulling the Plug - The Hospital Perspective," ACBA Bench-Bar Conference, Seven Springs, Pennsylvania, 1988

· Clinical Ethics Course for second year medical students, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1988-1991

· "Medical Records - Confidentiality versus Disclosure: A Primer," ABA Forum Committee on Health Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1987

· "Artificial Nutrition and Hydration," Regional Ethics Symposium sponsored by St. Joseph's Hospital and the Catholic Health Association of the United States, Atlanta, Georgia, 1987

· "Overview of Professional Nursing Liability," University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, 1987

· "Anesthesiology and the Law," Melvin Belli Seminar, ATLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., 1984

· "Hospital Liability Surrounding the Granting of Staff Privileges," ATLA Fourth Circuit Seminar, Baltimore, Maryland, 1983

· Annual Lectures on Prevention of Medical Malpractice, How to Handle a Lawsuit, and Legal Issues Pertaining to Life Support, Critical Care Fellowship Training Program, Presbyterian-University Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Fellow: American Bar Foundation.

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