Associate General Counsel - Health Sciences

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Description

Emory’s Office of the General Counsel seeks a data use, privacy, and technology attorney with significant operational, transactional, and regulatory experience to serve as Associate General Counsel.  If that’s you, we’re thrilled that we found each other so quickly. Want to know more first?  See the details below.

 

Help us make the world healthier

 

The Associate General Counsel will join an outstanding group of teammates representing Emory University and Emory Healthcare on challenging matters confronting one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers that includes highly ranked Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, a national primate research center, the only National Cancer Institute–designated comprehensive cancer institute in Georgia, a global health institute that supports initiatives in nearly 100 countries, and a leading research enterprise that receives more than one billion dollars in annual sponsored research funding and is responsible for the development of lifesaving treatments such as angioplasty, drug-eluting stents, and the most successful and commonly used HIV/AIDS drugs in the world.

 

You will represent Georgia’s most comprehensive health system that cares for patients making more than 6 million visits to Emory each year and that encompasses 10 hospitals (and growing!), more than 490 outpatient provider locations, and the largest clinically integrated network in the state, with more than 3,450 physicians concentrating in 70 different subspecialties.

 

Duties will include:

 

The Associate General Counsel’s duties in support of Emory University and Emory Healthcare will include:

• Providing legal analysis and regulatory and strategic advice concerning data governance/use, data privacy, cybersecurity and incident investigation, response and compliance
• Remaining abreast of evolving legal requirements and industry standards related to data privacy, security, use and access
• Advising on a wide range of healthcare information technology matters, including strategic collaborations, innovation and emerging technologies, digital healthcare, mobile health, electronic health records, interoperability and artificial intelligence
• Partnering closely with a broad range of stakeholders, including Privacy and Security Offices and Emory Digital leadership, to ensure alignment between regulatory requirements and institutional objectives
• Leading or advising on technology contract negotiations and strategic collaborations
• Advising on health care business and operational opportunities, including counseling and contract review and negotiation
• Developing new areas of sub-specialty as needs may arise
• Duties also may include participation on committees as the legal advisor

We are looking for candidates who:

• Work well on a team
• Have outstanding negotiation and verbal and written communication skills
• Display high levels of emotional intelligence, including kindness, empathy, optimism, and self-awareness
• Approach work with a commitment to excellence, intellectual curiosity, a strong work ethic, and integrity
• Have excellent judgment, client counseling, multi-tasking, and decision-making skills
• Have a license to practice law in a U.S. state and excellent academic credentials
• Preferably have a minimum of five years of legal experience in healthcare data privacy/governance and digital healthcare, including commercial contract negotiation
• Have experience with and understanding of HIPAA, HITECH, Information Blocking and 42 CFR Part 2, FERPA, GDPR, TCPA, FTC and state privacy laws
• Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) credential is a plus.
• Previous experience with academic medical centers, physician group practices, health care delivery systems, and/or in-house legal departments is a plus.
• A sense of humor is also valued!

 

Where will I work?

 

Where would you like to work?  We have an office waiting for you in the heart of the university on the “quad”, where our Atlanta-area team members can collaborate two days a week (more or less, as needed).  But we are flexible.  What work environment / location will contribute to you doing your best work for Emory?

 

Other benefits

 

Emory’s compensation is competitive with similar universities an