Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Fellow Designate, American College of Healthcare Executives
• The State Bar of California, MCLE Multiple Activity Provider, 2012

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Admitted to the California Bar., 1995
• Admitted to the District of Columbia Bar., 1996
• Admitted to the New York Bar., 2001

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Founder and CEO:  Not So Much Foundation Started in 2008, Not So Much Foundation (www.notsomuch.org) is a non-partisan, California public benefit corporation (organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code) that is committed to the preservation and improvement of our nation’s health care system.  The Foundation’s goal is to promote education and public awareness of the need for individual and global sustainability by providing information pertaining to health care, energy conservation and the preservation of natural resources. In 2010, the Foundation launched its Local Hospital project (LocalHospital.org), a free resource designed to teach individual communities about their nearby health care services by identifying neighboring hospitals and the medical services they provide. Local Hospital also offers information pertaining to the various subsections of the American health care system. 

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Author, Providing Care for the Uninsured Without the Federal Case, 2011
• Author, No Choice But To Care: When a Hospital Can't Shut Its Doors, 2011
• Author, Facebook and EHRs: A Very Fine Line Just Got Even Finer, IHealthBeat, 2011
• Author, Health Care Reform Sets the Standard Under the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, But How Much Longer Will it Apply?, Westlaw Journal Health Care Fraud, 2011
• Author, Tracing the Evolution of American Health Care Through Medicare, Journal of Health, Culture and Society, 2011
• Presentation at CHA's 26th Annual Rural Health Care Symposium., Presenter, The Vanishing Community Hospital, California Hospital Association, 2012

Video:

• Los Angeles Daily Journal Interview, 2012

Educational Background:

• University of Pennsylvania (B.A. in Classical Studies and American History), 1992