Paul Risner
- 20+ years navigating healthcare law and ethics — Advising health systems, hospitals, physicians, and healthcare companies on complex legal and ethical challenges.
- Insider perspective on a rapidly changing industry — Brings firsthand experience in healthcare strategy, privacy, bioethics, managed care, and emerging business models.
- Makes complex issues engaging and accessible — Combines practical expertise with humor, compelling stories, and real-world insights audiences can put into perspective.
Paul Risner Speaker Biography
With over 30 years of executive, operations and legal management in complex operating and start-up health-care organizations, Paul E. Risner is able to leverage his broad legal and management background in large and small companies on a wide variety of professional and legal services, including organization creation and governance, management, risk analysis and prevention, regulatory compliance, merger and acquisition, compensation arrangements, and all other legal and financial transactions.
Serving as a panel member for the American Health Lawyers Association and for the American Arbitration Association, Mr. Risner sits as an arbitrator in complex healthcare and commercial cases. These cases require Mr. Risner to assess liability and award damages between healthcare entities and providers.
Mr. Risner currently advises domestic and foreign companies on business strategy and law and works with all sizes of companies from start-ups to well-funded operating companies. Mr. Risner has served as COO (interim) of Advicare Corp., a Medicaid MCO in South Carolina), EVP/GC of MyLooks Inc. (a U.S.-based plastic surgery practice management company) and COO/General Counsel of U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc. (a US-based health and wellness company). Mr. Risner served as Vice-President/General Counsel of several leading healthcare providers, including St. Vincent’s Health System, Sarasota Memorial Health System, Boca Raton Community Hospital and PlanetRx.com.
Mr. Risner is Board-Certified in Health Law in Florida and holds licenses in both Florida and Tennessee. He has provided legal, business management and strategic consulting services to his clients on a wide variety of projects for over 25 years.
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