Associate General Counsel

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Associate General Counsel
Responsibilities: Provides authoritative input into development of short- and long-range health system goals and plans in order to ensure the health system maintains compliance with all federal, state, and local laws and regulations; oversees all merger and acquisition transactions, coordinating with specialized outside counsel (e.g., antitrust) and participates directly in negotiations as necessary and required; reviews a variety of health system-wide as well as departmental policies, procedures and programs for potential legal problems. Recommends changes to same as necessary; works closely with health system compliance leadership on policy development, and responding to compliance issues arising from outside investigations or internal complaints; participates in negotiations with outside contractors, organizations, and the like, on matters of material importance to the health system and College of Medicine; acts as liaison with outside counsel regarding cases involving litigation between the health system or College of Medicine and other parties; participates on a variety of committees in order to gather and exchange information regarding health system operations and to recommend actions to be taken; participates in all meetings of the Board of Directors of Penn State Health and, as necessary, subsidiary boards of directors; provides legal guidance to board and committee chairs, all corporate officers, and other management representatives as required; advises Dean of the College of Medicine and academic administrators on legal matters arising in the College of Medicine, including student admissions and dismissals, faculty matters, research compliance, and scientific misconduct; develops, secures approval of and administers departmental budget. Monitors adherence to same, initiating changes as necessary; interviews, hires, develops, evaluates the performance of subordinate personnel, presently consisting of three attorneys; represents the health system to courts, government agencies, and the like regarding most complex legal problems and/or issues having large financial impact on the health system; assigns work to subordinate staff, regularly reviews work load, and reviews attorney work product as necessary; provides advice to governmental relations staff on legislative and regulatory initiatives, and interact with legislators and agency officials as required.

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