Certificate
in Health Law and Compliance

Valerie Gutmann Koch is a Jaharis Faculty Fellow at DePaul University College of Law and the Director of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago’s MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Previously, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and Senior Attorney as well as Special Advisor to the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law. She has also practiced in the intellectual property litigation practice at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Professor Koch earned her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, where she was the co-editor of the recent developments section of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. She graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs and Public Policy, with a focus on bioethics. Professor Koch is committed to public service, including serving as the Chair of the ABA’s Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law and Co-Chair of the Law Affinity Group for the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities.

Wendy Netter Epstein is a Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law and Faculty Director of the Jaharis Health Law Institute. She was previously a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School. She brings both economic and behavioral science principles to bear in her scholarly work, which has been published in the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics; the Southern California Law Review; the Minnesota Law Review; and the Emory Law Journal. Professor Epstein has won University-level and law school awards for both her teaching and her scholarship. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to entering academia, Professor Epstein clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and was a partner in commercial litigation at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she continues her affiliation as a counsel.

Katherine Schostok is an attorney with the Social Security Administration, Office of Hearing Operations, Special Review Cadre. She continues to serve as the Executive Director of the Jaharis Health Law Institute at DePaul University College of Law. She also serves as an adjunct professor at DePaul University College of Law and UIC John Marshall Law School in the areas of healthcare fraud and abuse, the structure of the healthcare enterprise, professional and institutional liability, and healthcare reform. She received her JD and health law certificate from DePaul University College of Law as well as a Master of Laws in Health Law degree at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Dr. Schostok is widely published in the areas of health law, risk management, healthcare technology, and healthcare regulation. She has completed extensive research and comparative analyses of apology and full disclosure programs implemented by various hospitals in the Midwest region. She lectures and provides continuing legal education courses throughout the Chicagoland area on healthcare fraud and abuse, risk management techniques, and recommended disclosure guidelines.

Ahmed Salim is a Manager in the healthcare practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP. He is experienced in regulatory compliance, investigatory, assessments, and auditing and monitoring. Dr. Salim has served as a Compliance Officer for years, most recently as a Regional Director at a health system in Chicago. He has also served as Privacy Officer — conducting privacy investigations, privacy assessments, and audits as well as creating policies and procedures — and chair of multiple Privacy and Security Committees. Dr. Salim has worked directly with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) on investigations and has helped implement multiple EHR access monitoring systems to oversee daily privacy activity. He is an author and frequent speaker on healthcare compliance and has published and spoken on the topics of compliance program effectiveness and privacy. An alumnus of DePaul University and Western Michigan Law School, Dr. Salim earned his undergraduate degree in business administration and his Juris Doctorate. He is Certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC), Privacy Compliance (CHPC) and Certified Healthcare Financial Professional (CHFP).

Charlotte Tschider is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law and author of International Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in Practice (Wolters Kluwer, 2018) and Cybersecurity: An Interdisciplinary Approach (West, 2020, forthcoming) (with Gus Hurwitz, David Thaw, and Derek Bambauer). She most recently was the Jaharis Faculty Fellow in Health Law at DePaul University College of Law and, before her time in academia, a senior international data protection consultant for Medtronic Corporation. Dr. Tschider writes on a variety of topics at the intersection of health and innovation, including privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, for law reviews and interdisciplinary journals. She has been featured in popular news media, including Forbes, The Hill, Morning Consult, and The Huffington Post.

Max Helveston is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Strategic Initiatives and a Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law. His academic publications analyze how governmental regulation of commercial behavior and private industry practices affect consumer behavior and welfare, specifically in healthcare and insurance markets. His work has been published in the Washington University Law Review, the New York University Journal of Law & Business, the Penn State Law Review, and the Cardozo Law Review, among others. Professor Helveston has won several awards for excellence in teaching. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from Yale University. Prior to entering academia, Professor Helveston clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and practiced at Latham Watkins LLP.