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2026-01-23 13:00:00
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Course Overview
2026-01-23 13:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Mary A. Azzarito
Kenny Stein
Michelle Williams
Bahati Mutisya 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm ESTMary A. AzzaritoKenny SteinMichelle WilliamsBahati MutisyaMary A. Azzarito is a Partner at Adler, Cohen, Harvey, Wakeman & Guekguezian, LLP, one of New England’s premier medical malpractice defense firms, where she has been litigating since 1994. Her practice centers on the defense of medical professionals across a wide range of specialties, including internal medicine, pediatrics, cardiology, interventional cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology, and maternal fetal medicine. Beyond medical malpractice, Mary brings substantial experience in criminal defense, white collar defense, administrative law, general liability, and Hague Convention matters involving the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. She has appeared before the Board of Registration in Medicine, the Division of Administrative Law Appeals, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the Supreme Judicial Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Mary became a Partner at Adler Cohen effective February 2023.
Kenneth A. “Kenny” Stein, MD is a board-certified physician and medical-legal expert serving as an expert witness in emergency medicine, critical care, and internal medicine for both plaintiff and defense in cases involving negligence, causation, and damages. Based in Chesterfield, Missouri, Dr. Stein has practiced Emergency Medicine for 29 years and Critical Care/Intensive Care Medicine for 27 years, and has provided expert witness testimony—at deposition and trial—more than 200 times. He is formerly an Assistant Professor at St. Louis University School of Medicine.
As former in-house counsel at large academic medical centers, Michelle Williams draws on her industry experience to advise on regulatory and structuring aspects of hospital mergers, acquisitions, and integrations. She has a reputation for smoothly obtaining attorney general and federal approvals for complex transactions, and she also advises on EMTALA, QIO hearings, medical staff issues, corporate governance and hospital authorities and districts.
Ms. Williams focuses her practice on the regulatory and structuring aspects of hospital mergers, acquisitions, and integrations. Her experience includes obtaining attorney general and federal approvals for complex transactions and/or conversion from nonprofit to for-profit status, and issues of successor liability. She also advises on corporate governance and Medical Staff governance in connection with changes of control or ownership. She represents clients undergoing CMS, EMTALA and state surveys,
Medicare terminations and regulatory review, and advises on hospital authority law, voluntary disclosures, corporate integrity agreements and qui tam defense.
Since 2012, Michelle has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® in Health Care Law. Chambers USA has listed Michelle as a leading health care lawyer since 2008.
Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Michelle was a commissioner on the Advisory Committee on Childhood Vaccines, advising the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services on the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund. She was a former in-house counsel at University Hospitals of Cleveland and the former Mount Sinai Hospital, and has been on-loan in-house counsel to general academic medical centers.
Bahati Mutisya has experience with Medicaid and Medicare regulations and audits, including defending clients who have received recoupment and termination notices from those programs. She represents providers before managed care organizations and the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings on issues related to licensure, pre-payment review, and post-payment review. In addition, Bahati advises psychiatric hospitals on compliance with state and federal rules related to caring for the mentally ill and guardianship and represents hospitals in involuntary commitment hearings in district court. She also provides guidance to providers regarding compliance with various health care laws including HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, EMTALA, and the federal False Claims Act.
Bahati is an adjunct professor teaching health care compliance in the Master of Studies in Law program at Wake Forest University School of Law. Her course covers health care compliance topics and laws, progressing from the basics of a compliance program to specific issues facing the health care industry.
Outside of health care, Bahati has counseled private businesses and local governments in regulatory issues and civil litigation. She has significant experience representing clients before governing bodies and elected officials. Bahati has also assisted municipalities with land use regulation, advised real estate developers on compliance with local zoning laws, and defended developers in real property litigation.
Bahati clerked for The Honorable Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, who is currently the Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She also served as a law clerk at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Executive Office for Immigration Review, and as a law clerk at the DOJ, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation. Prior to attending law school, Bahati taught calculus supplemental instruction sessions for freshman calculus students at Carnegie Mellon University in Doha, Qatar.
Mary A. Azzarito is a Partner at Adler, Cohen, Harvey, Wakeman & Guekguezian, LLP, one of New England’s premier medical malpractice defense firms, where she has been litigating since 1994. Her practice centers on the defense of medical professionals across a wide range of specialties, including internal medicine, pediatrics, cardiology, interventional cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology, and maternal fetal medicine. Beyond medical malpractice, Mary brings substantial experience in criminal defense, white collar defense, administrative law, general liability, and Hague Convention matters involving the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. She has appeared before the Board of Registration in Medicine, the Division of Administrative Law Appeals, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the Supreme Judicial Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Mary became a Partner at Adler Cohen effective February 2023.
Kenneth A. “Kenny” Stein, MD is a board-certified physician and medical-legal expert serving as an expert witness in emergency medicine, critical care, and internal medicine for both plaintiff and defense in cases involving negligence, causation, and damages. Based in Chesterfield, Missouri, Dr. Stein has practiced Emergency Medicine for 29 years and Critical Care/Intensive Care Medicine for 27 years, and has provided expert witness testimony—at deposition and trial—more than 200 times. He is formerly an Assistant Professor at St. Louis University School of Medicine.
As former in-house counsel at large academic medical centers, Michelle Williams draws on her industry experience to advise on regulatory and structuring aspects of hospital mergers, acquisitions, and integrations. She has a reputation for smoothly obtaining attorney general and federal approvals for complex transactions, and she also advises on EMTALA, QIO hearings, medical staff issues, corporate governance and hospital authorities and districts.
Ms. Williams focuses her practice on the regulatory and structuring aspects of hospital mergers, acquisitions, and integrations. Her experience includes obtaining attorney general and federal approvals for complex transactions and/or conversion from nonprofit to for-profit status, and issues of successor liability. She also advises on corporate governance and Medical Staff governance in connection with changes of control or ownership. She represents clients undergoing CMS, EMTALA and state surveys,
Medicare terminations and regulatory review, and advises on hospital authority law, voluntary disclosures, corporate integrity agreements and qui tam defense.
Since 2012, Michelle has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® in Health Care Law. Chambers USA has listed Michelle as a leading health care lawyer since 2008.
Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Michelle was a commissioner on the Advisory Committee on Childhood Vaccines, advising the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services on the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund. She was a former in-house counsel at University Hospitals of Cleveland and the former Mount Sinai Hospital, and has been on-loan in-house counsel to general academic medical centers.
Bahati Mutisya has experience with Medicaid and Medicare regulations and audits, including defending clients who have received recoupment and termination notices from those programs. She represents providers before managed care organizations and the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings on issues related to licensure, pre-payment review, and post-payment review. In addition, Bahati advises psychiatric hospitals on compliance with state and federal rules related to caring for the mentally ill and guardianship and represents hospitals in involuntary commitment hearings in district court. She also provides guidance to providers regarding compliance with various health care laws including HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, EMTALA, and the federal False Claims Act.
Bahati is an adjunct professor teaching health care compliance in the Master of Studies in Law program at Wake Forest University School of Law. Her course covers health care compliance topics and laws, progressing from the basics of a compliance program to specific issues facing the health care industry.
Outside of health care, Bahati has counseled private businesses and local governments in regulatory issues and civil litigation. She has significant experience representing clients before governing bodies and elected officials. Bahati has also assisted municipalities with land use regulation, advised real estate developers on compliance with local zoning laws, and defended developers in real property litigation.
Bahati clerked for The Honorable Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, who is currently the Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She also served as a law clerk at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Executive Office for Immigration Review, and as a law clerk at the DOJ, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation. Prior to attending law school, Bahati taught calculus supplemental instruction sessions for freshman calculus students at Carnegie Mellon University in Doha, Qatar.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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