Miller & Martin attorney Christie Kizer Burbank has been elected to be the vice-chair of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Health Law Section for 2013 and 2014. Burbank will subsequently serve as chair of the section in 2014 and 2015.
The Health Law Section works to further the knowledge of its members in federal, state and local health care law. The Section also produces the nationally recognized annual Tennessee Bar Association Health Law Forum as well as the Health Law Primer, a seminar for attorneys newer to the health law practice.
“I have served on the executive council of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Health Law Section for several years, and it will be an honor to represent this group of Tennessee health care attorneys in a leadership role over the next two years, when the health care industry is undoubtedly facing its most exciting and challenging times,” said Burbank.
Burbank concentrates her legal practice exclusively in health care regulatory and transactional law matters for a broad range of health care providers. Specifically, she has extensive experience in health care contract drafting and negotiations, fraud and abuse analyses, physician self referral issues, HIPAA and privacy issues, subpoenas and other requests for patient records, physician group practice and compensation issues, hospital and physician arrangements, physician recruitment issues, medical staff bylaws and credentialing, joint ventures and management relationships, employment, medical director and specialty services agreements, compliance plan development, licensure, certification and accreditation issues, operational and patient care issues, corporate practice of medicine and fee splitting concepts, walk-in clinics, employee health clinics and wellness programs, clinical research issues, and similar matters.
Burbank previously led Miller & Martin’s Health Care Practice Group in the role of co-chair from 2007 to 2011. She enjoys serving her health care community in numerous board and committee positions for various health care-related charities and foundations. Prior to attending law school, Burbank performed clinical, data and laboratory research in the medical fields of neonatology and pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.
Source: Miller & Martin