Rebecca Burke, Esq.
Of Counsel, Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville
Ms. Burke is counsel with the Washington DC law firm of Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville and has over 30 years of experience in the health care field representing physician organizations, health care providers, independent diagnostic testing facilities, and remote patient monitoring providers on regulatory, reimbursement, and compliance issues including Medicare and Medicaid payment, coverage, and coding.
She regularly represents clients before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, other federal agencies, and standard setting organizations. She is also a frequent contributor to publications in the healthcare area and has authored several articles for the physician community on telemedicine issues.
Rebecca is a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University Law Center.
Jacob Harper, Esq.
Associate, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP
Jacob Harper advises stakeholders across the healthcare industry, including hospitals, health systems, large physician group practices, practice management companies, hospices, chain pharmacies, manufacturers, and private equity clients, on an array of healthcare regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters. His practice focuses on compliance, fraud and abuse, and reimbursement matters, self-disclosures to and negotiations with OIG and CMS, internal investigations, provider mergers and acquisitions, and appeals before the PRRB, OMHA, and the Medicare Appeals Council.
Joe McMenamin, MD, JD
Principal, McMenamin Law Offices
Joseph P. (“Joe”) McMenamin is the principal at McMenamin Law Offices (“MLO”). In Richmond, Virginia. Nearly all of MLO’s practice is devoted to advising companies and providers on digital medicine issues.
Dr. McMenamin has been involved in distance care since the mid-1990s. Before being admitted to the bar, Dr. McMenamin practiced emergency medicine at hospitals in Pennsylvania and Georgia on a part-time and full-time basis over a seven-year period overlapping his specialty training and legal education.
He presently serves as General Counsel to the Virginia Telemedicine Network and as an associate professor of Legal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. He also is a member of CTeL’s Legal Resource Team. He is board-certified in legal medicine and a Fellow of the College of Legal Medicine.
Brent Ray, JD
Partner, King & Spalding, LLP
Brent Ray is a trial lawyer who has first-chaired multiple cases to verdict. He has served as lead counsel for industry-leading clients, such as IBM, JP Morgan Chase, Citibank and Kemper Insurance. Brent’s work has taken him to a wide variety of venues, including federal court, state court, the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States International Trade Commission.
As a result of his diverse experience, Brent has been called upon to advise clients on the intellectual property and litigation aspects of corporate merger agreements and product acquisitions, and to develop and manage patent portfolios. Brent has also argued before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to defend a grant of summary judgment that he won below.
Brent is an Adjunct Professor at Chicago-Kent School of Law teaching advanced Legal Writing focused on Intellectual Property issues. Brent is a member of the trial bar of the Northern District of Illinois.
Mari Robinson, JD
Director of Telehealth, University of Texas Medical Branch
Mari Robinson is the Director of Telehealth with the University of Texas Medical Branch and in that role she is assisting with the roll out of the Virtual Health Network, a project to link all o f UT systems’ medical campuses to allow for the shared provision of telemedicine throughout the state.
Prior to joining UTMB, she was Executive Director for the Texas Medical Board, and oversaw the agency responsible for regulating the practice of medicine in the state.
She is also presently serving as a board member of the TexLa Telehealth Resource Center, and a member of the HHSC HB1697 Pediatric Telehealth Network Subcommittee.
Jeremy Sherer, Esq.
Associate, Hooper, Lundy and Bookman, P.C.
Mr. Sherer is a health care attorney in the Boston office of Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, P.C. specializing in digital health and the regulation of health care technology.
Jeremy counsels a wide range of health care providers and technology vendors, including hospital systems, provider organizations, national telehealth platforms and early-stage digital health startups, on matters involving regulatory compliance, transactions and business arrangements, with particular emphasis on telehealth and artificial intelligence.
Jeremy frequently speaks on telehealth and health care technology matters across the country. He is the co-author of the telehealth chapter of the American Bar Association’s Physician Law: Evolving Trends & Hot Topics 2019, and was named one of “12 Health IT Attorneys You Should Know” by Health Data Management in 2017. He also received the American Bar Association Health Law Section’s “Emerging Young Lawyer in Healthcare” award in 2019, and has been named a “Rising Star” in health care law by Super Lawyers since 2017.
Adam Solander, Esq.
Member of the Firm, King & Spalding LLP
As a data, privacy and security, health care, and employee benefits partner at King & Spalding LLP, Adam Solander provides counsel on data breach and cybersecurity issues across various industries, particularly health care. Adam represents clients with respect to employee benefits regulatory and compliance issues including designing, implementing, and maintaining employee benefit plans. He also advises clients on issues related to managed care laws and telemedicine.
Adam has experience helping clients preparing for, responding to, and recovering from data, privacy and security incidents. He is a Certified CSF Practitioner, a designation given by the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST). This organization provides training to develop and maintain effective security programs for health care and life sciences companies that comply with security laws, regulations, and standards, including HITECH, HIPAA, PCI, JCAHO, CMS, ISO, NIST, and various other federal, state, and business requirements.