Career Development Webinar: The Nuts and Bolts of Health Law – Session 2

Have you thought about practicing health law, but you’re not quite sure what the practice may entail? Join us for the Nuts and Bolts of Health Law presented by the Health Law Section, Younger Lawyers Division, and Law Student Division on April 26th and May 3rd at 2:00 p.m. ET. Both informative and interactive sessions will include a panel of health law attorneys providing brief practice area primers and sharing their professional experiences.

April 26, 2024 – The Nuts and Bolts of Health Law – Session 1

Speakers:

• Provider Licensing, Credentialing, Oversight, and Peer Review – Nadia de la Houssaye
• Health Insurance and Policy – Katie Dzurec
• Health Law In-House Counsel – Colin Howard

May 3, 2024 – The Nuts and Bolts of Health Law – Session 2

Speakers:

• Health Law Transactional Work – Joyce Hall
• Health Care Fraud and Abuse – Norman Acker
• Medical Malpractice – Sharon Wilson

Presented by the Health Law Section, Younger Lawyers Division & Law Student Division

Presenters

Joyce Hall

Ms. Hall is a member of the regional law firm of Watkins & Eager PLLC headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi and practices in the health care, general business, and commercial/public finance areas. Ms. Hall is a leader in the firm’s healthcare practice group and serves as Chair of the firm’s management committee. Ms. Hall is admitted to both the Mississippi Bar and the Louisiana Bar Associations. Ms. Hall is active in the American Bar Association, Health Law Section and served as Chair of the Section in 2015-2016. Ms. Hall has authored and co-authored several articles in the health law field, including health law forms for the AMA. She has been a speaker at numerous health care conferences on the topics of compliance plans, fraud and abuse, physician contracting issues, health care reform, physician self-referral issues, HIPAA, ACO’s, Enterprise Risk Management and the Evolution of Telehealth. She has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® (Commercial Finance Law, Health Care Law, and Public Finance Law) and in Chambers USA (Corporate/Commercial and Corporate/Commercial: Municipal Finance). She was included in the Mississippi Business Journal’s Mississippi’s 50 Leading Business Women (2009) and Leadership in Law Award, Top Ten Recipient (2015). She enjoys travelling and spending time with her family: husband – Daniel – and children – Dan (Austin), Drew (New York City) and Alyssa (Kosciusko, MS) and their spouses and 2 grandsons and 2 granddaughters.

Norman Acker

Norman Acker is of counsel in the firm’s Research Triangle Park office. Norman brings more than three decades of experience as an Assistant United States Attorney to help guide clients facing government False Claims Act investigations or other allegations of fraud or abuse of government programs. He is a member of the Health Care and FDA practice. Prior to joining the firm, Norman served as acting U.S. attorney, the chief federal law enforcement officer in the Eastern District of North Carolina. That office is responsible for prosecuting all federal crimes in the district, including drug crimes, violent crimes, white collar fraud, terrorism, and public corruption. The U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) also represents the United States in civil court, handling a wide variety of civil litigation. He previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney for more than 30 years, focusing his practice on the investigation and civil prosecution of health care fraud and other fraud against the government. In this capacity, he worked closely with the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), the North Carolina Medicaid Investigations Division (NC-MID), the Department of Defense Criminal Investigation Service (DCIS), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies. For 17 years, he served as the Deputy Chief of the Civil Division, where he both handled his own case load of civil fraud and health care fraud cases, and supervisedas well as supervising all of the civil fraud, health care fraud, and False Claims Act cases for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He has received numerous awards and commendations from federal and state agencies in recognition of his collection of more than $100 million in connection with False Claims Act litigation. He served briefly as the civil chief, supervising all civil litigation for the USAO, before becoming the first assistant, supervising all civil, criminal, and appellate litigation in the office. Norman received his BA and JD from the University of North Carolina.

Sharon C. Wilson, BSN

Sharon C. Wilson, BSN – Emory University 1986; JD/MBA Wake Forest University 1991; Law Clerk to the Hon. John Baker Lewis, Jr., NCCOA 1991-1992; Associate, Parker Poe (1992-1994); Asst or Assoc. AG, NC DOJ 1995-1998; USAO-EDNC 1999 to present.  Handles a wide variety of civil litigation, including large tort cases and medical malpractice defense.

Moderator: Health Law Section Officer Jean Phillip Shami

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