In my corporate work as General Counsel with hospitals and with ibex Healthcare Systems, I have been privileged to be part of the healthcare industry, as a lawyer and a business executive. That focus continues in my private practice. My goal is to work collaboratively with clients, and I am often asked to lead large multi-disciplinary teams to close significant healthcare transactions and solve regulatory problems. Clients have described me as a highly responsive, practical, and creative thinker.I have extensive experience involving the intersection of healthcare and technology and regularly counsel clients on their clinical operations and guide data privacy and security and reimbursement compliance. I represent international consulting companies, software companies, institutional healthcare providers, medical device manufacturers, physician practices, and entrepreneurial businesses in healthcare and technology. My work for clients involves cloud computing, data privacy and security, software licensing, reimbursement and regulatory compliance and insurance.I served as General Counsel of ibex Healthdata Systems, a cloud-based clinical and financial software application for doctors and hospitals, as Vice President, Legal Affairs for Illinois Masonic Medical Center and as Assistant General Counsel of Northwestern Memorial Hospital. I also served as Chief Compliance Officer for ibex HealthData Systems.AUTHOR AND PRESENTER- author, coauthor articles and chapters on health data privacy and security- presenter on social media and health care, cloud computing and data privacy and security, software licensing and outsourcing and data privacy and securityTEACHING- Former Adjunct Professor in the Executive Master of Healthcare Administration Program at the University of Illinois, School of Public Health - Former Adjunct Professor, IIT Chicago Kent College of Law