Precision Medicine: Structuring Collaborations and Avoiding Fraud and Abuse Pitfalls

Ms. Metnick is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Chicago office and a member of the Healthcare and Privacy & Cybersecurity Teams. She represents a range of healthcare industry clients, including hospitals and health systems, physician organizations and digital health companies. Ms. Metnick advises on healthcare regulatory and transactional matters with a focus on health information privacy and security. She is the founder and leader of Sheppard Mullin Healthy AI, which is an initiative focused on legal issues relates to the use of AI in healthcare. Ms. Metnick counsels healthcare clients on issues relating to AI, including governance, contractual matters, and data related issues. She advises clients on a range of privacy and security laws, including HIPAA and other federal and state privacy laws. Ms. Metnick also counsels businesses in data breach investigations and compliance with federal and state breach notification laws. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/ US) and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E).

Ms. Callaghan counsels healthcare entities, healthcare technology companies, data companies, and private equity entities as they navigate transactional, regulatory, and compliance issues. She focuses on assisting clients on matters including data privacy and protection requirements under HIPAA and other privacy laws, data breach investigations and compliance, and data sharing, licensing, and de-identification arrangements. Ms. Callaghan also assists clients in developing telemedicine strategies and documenting agreements given the evolving digital health regulatory landscape.

Dr. Heusel is a Professor of Pathology, and of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine and currently directs Clinical and Translational Genomics for the Department of Pathology & Immunology. He also represents the medical school as one of two directors for the recently established Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law at Washington University, which combines expertise and scholarship across biomedical science, health and privacy law, digital technologies and ethics in order to facilitate the emergence of a fair, transparent and healthy digital future.