Best Practices Process

2007 Faculty to be announced soon!
2006 Faculty:

Patrick Coffey
Partner
Lord Bissell & Brook LLP

Lisa Eggleston
Health Insurance Specialist
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,

Andrew Grosso
Attorney at Law

Andrew Grosso & Associates

Patrick Burns
Director of Communications
Taxpayers Against Fraud

Laura Ellis
Sr. Counsel
Office of the Counsel to the Inspector General

Keith V. Morgan

Chief, FLU
U.S. Attorneys Office, Washington, D.C.

Paul Weidenfeld
Healthcare Fraud Coordinator
Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys

Janet Nolan
Counsel
Fulbright & Jaworski

Diane Wigglesworth
Manager Physician Services
El Camino Hospital


Jane Cangeme
Network Compliance
VA New England Healthcare System

Jim Neal
Director Corporate Compliance
Palomar Pomerado Health

Roger Davis
Chief Executive Officer
Viztek, LLC

Raul Saldivar
Senior Vice President HR
Mosaic

Vincent Guss
Chaplain/Director - Pastoral Care
Virginia Hospital Center

Laura Macaluso
Sr. Director, Corporate Compliance & Internal Audit
Eastern Connecticut Health Network

Ed Gaines
SVP, Compliance & General Counsel
Healthcare Business Resources, Inc.

Susan Emhof
Corporate Director Ethical Compliance
Lifetime Healthcare Companies

Donnica Cathey
Chief Integrity Officer
Sinai Health System

Gary Thompson
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP
Associate

Joseph L. Verheijde Ph.D., MBA, PT, CCP
Mayo College of Medicine
Assistant Professor

and Presentations from the Best Practice Award Winners.

2005 Faculty:

Frederick Robinson
Partner
Fulbright & Jaworski,
James Moorman
President & CEO
Taxpayers Against Fraud,
Connie Dunnell
Jane Cangeme
Jeff Johnson
Department of Veterans Affairs,
Barbara Tanase
Assistant US Attorney
US Attorneys Office in the Western District of Michigan,
Maryanne Spicer
Director, Corporate Compliance
Massachusetts General Hospital,
Andrew Grosso
Andrew Grosso & Associates,
Andrea Kessler
Keller Benefit Services, Inc.,
David Clark
Director and AVP, Research Compliance
Rush University Medical Center,
James Neal
Director Corporate Integrity
Palomar Pomerado,                            
Kimberly Brandt
Acting Director, Program Integrity Group
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,

and Presentations from the Best Practice Award Winners.

2004 Faculty:


Jeff Oak, PhD
(Chief Compliance Officer, Veterans Health Administration)
Kim Brandt
(Acting Director of Program Integrity Unit, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Carl Josehart
(Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Schwab Rehabilation Hospital)
Vincent Guss, Jr.
(Ethics Officer, INOVA Health)
Seth Lundy, Esq.
(Fulbright & Jaworski)
Gary W. Thompson, Esq.
(Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P.),
Andrew Grosso, Esq.
(Attorney at Law),

and Presentations from the Best Practice Award Winners.

2003 Faculty:
Dan Anderson
(Senior Counsel for Health Care Fraud, Civil Division, DOJ)
Paula Desio
(Deputy General Counsel, United States Sentencing Commission)
Lisa A. Gallagher
(Senior Vice President of Information and Technology Accreditation, URAC)
Larry Goldberg
(Assistant Inspector General for Legal Affairs, Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, HHS OIG)
"Mac" Thornton
(Partner with Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP and former Chief Counsel to the HHS Inspector General from 1990 - 2002)
Tish Breeding
(Director of Integrity and Compliance, Covenant Health)
Cheryl Wagonhurst
(Chief Compliance Officer, Tenet Healthcare Corporation)
Josh Hochberg

(Chief of Fraud Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice)
Marion Kruse

(Director of Clinical Consulting Services, Ohio Health System)

Additionally, a panel of Assistant U.S. Attorneys - a popular element of past Forums - is scheduled. Panelists include:

Doris Cole-Huff

(AUSA, Civil Division, District of Columbia)
Sidney Rocke

(Director for Medicaid Fraud Control Unit & Special Assistant U.S Attorney, District of Columbia)

2002 Faculty:
Dan Anderson
(Sr. Counsel, Health Care Fraud Div., Dept. of Justice)
Larry V. Buel
(Director, Business Ethics & Compliance, Raytheon Co.)
Timothy Delany
(Supervising Speical Agent, Health Fraud Unit, FBI)
Paula Desio, JD
(Deputy General Counsel, US Sentancing Commission)
Thomas Fuhrman
(Principal, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc.)
Peter Isaacs, PhD
(Program in Applied Ethics, Queensland Univ. of Tech.)
Carl Josehart
(VP, Business Integrity, Mt. Sinai Health System)
Charles Kahn III
(President, The Federation of American Hospitals)
James Kopf
(Deputy IG for Investigations, OIG, DHHS)
Melody Lin, PhD
(Deputy Director, Office for Human Research Protections)
Mark Lutes, Esq.
(Epstein Becker and Green, PC)
Mark Montoney, MD
(VP, Quality and Clinical Support, Ohio Health)
James Neal
(Director, Corporate Integrity, Polamor Pomerado Health)
Jeffrey Oak, PhD
(Chief Compliance Officer, Veterans Health Administration)
Anne Phillips
(Xtria Healthcare)
Jane Paulter
(Baldrige National Quality Program)
Thomas Richardson
(Dep. Asst. Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Rick Robinson
(Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP)
Paul M. Schyve, MD
(Sr. VP, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)
Cheryl Wagonhurst
(Sr. Counsel, Tenet Healthcare Corporation)