Faculty
Edie Brous, MS, MPH, JD, RN, FAAN - Ms. Brous is a Nurse Attorney in private practice concentrating in professional licensure representation and nursing advocacy. She has practiced in major litigation law firms representing health care professionals, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies. Edie is admitted to practice before the bars of the state courts of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the Southern and Eastern Districts of the New York Federal Courts and the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of many bar associations and nursing organizations, was the 2011 president of The American Association of Nurse Attorneys, and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Ms. Brous has an extensive clinical and managerial background in Operating Room, Emergency Department, and Critical Care Nursing. In addition to her law degree, she holds master’s degrees in Public Health and in Critical Care Nursing from Columbia University. She has held a part time faculty position at Columbia University, and adjunct faculty positions at several universities teaching legal aspects of healthcare practice. Ms. Brous has lectured and published extensively on legal issues for providers and co-authored the textbook Law and Ethics for Advanced Practice Nurses. Edie is the recipient of the 2008 Outstanding Advocate Award, the 2017 Outstanding Litigation Section Member Award, the 2020 Outstanding Solo Practice Section Member Award, and the Cynthia Northrup Distinguished Service Award from The American Association of Nurse Attorneys as well as 2024 DEI and Community Advocate Recognition from the National Institute of Rural & Minority Health and the American Association of Nurse Attorneys.
John C. Cameron, JD - John C. Cameron received his J.D. from Widener University School of Law, an LLM in corporation law from New York University School of Law, and an MBA with a concentration in health administration from Temple University. Prior to joining Penn State Great Valley, Mr. Cameron held corporate positions in health care administration and corporate law.
Casey A. Coyle, Esq. -Casey Alan Coyle is the Managing Shareholder of Babst Calland’s Harrisburg Office and past Co-Chair of the firm’s Appellate and Litigation Practice groups. He concentrates his practice on complex commercial litigation and appellate law. Mr. Coyle has significant first-chair trial experience and regularly represents businesses in high-stakes or bet-the-company litigation in state and federal trial courts throughout the country. He has worked on a variety of cases, including cases involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duties, civil conspiracy, constitutional challenges, emergency injunctions, environmental litigation, non-competition/non-solicitation agreements, shareholder litigation, and theft of trade secrets. He also represents clients in matters brought before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court as part of its original jurisdiction. Beyond his extensive trial work, Mr. Coyle frequently represents businesses and trade associations in state and federal appellate courts. Over his career, he has represented either a party or an amicus curiae in over 15 appeals before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Mr. Coyle has successfully petitioned the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to grant review of an appeal—commonly known as “allocatur”—on six different occasions. In addition, he has presented oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, and Pennsylvania Superior Court. Mr. Coyle frequently serves as a commentator for The Legal Intelligencer and Law360 on appeals pending before the Pennsylvania appellate courts. Prior to joining Babst Calland, Mr. Coyle was a partner at a national law firm with offices throughout the eastern United States. While there, he served as Chair of the firm’s Appellate Practice Working Group. Before entering private practice, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Thomas G. Saylor, Chief Justice Emeritus of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, for nearly two and a half years.
Mr. Coyle is the Chair of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Civil Procedural Rules Committee, which assists the Supreme Court in the preparation, revision, publication, and administration of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure. He is also the Co-Chair of the Pennsylvania Defense Institute’s Amicus Curiae Committee. In 2024, he was selected by The Legal Intelligencer as one of only 13 “2024 Lawyers on the Fast Track, Small/Midsize Winners” statewide in Pennsylvania. This recognition is only given to attorneys under the age of 40 who have demonstrated excellence in four categories: development of the law; advocacy and community contributions; service to the bar; and peer and public recognition. Mr. Coyle graduated from the Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Temple Journal of Science, Technology & Environmental Law. He earned his B.A. in Journalism, with distinction, from the Pennsylvania State University.
Robert S. Goodman - Robert Goodman is Vice President for the Healthcare Group at MidCap Advisors, LLC, a boutique middle market investment banking form based in New York City. He has been with MidCap for more than 6 years and works closely with physician practices as well as other outpatient healthcare providers in support of their future plans. These plans can range from a sale to a consolidation effort to facilitating new partnerships and other business combinations. The support he provides is strategic, financial and practical, and tends to involve advisory services, positioning options, growth strategies, equity raises, and a competitive process for finding the right client-focused solution. Bob has been a hospital administrator in three different settings, including as CEO where he led the hospital’s turnaround; worked in the investment banking field in a turnaround capacity; was a finance executive at an equipment leasing company financing outpatient start-ups, healthcare practices, hospitals and other healthcare businesses; and as a healthcare strategic business consultant and advisor he has written business plans, conducted turnarounds, performed due diligence services for investors and lenders, fostered the sale of several outpatient centers, and obtained debt financing and restructured debt for more than 20 years. During that time he has had ownership and operating interests, as well as board seats, in several healthcare companies (a radiology IT company, an MRI center, a mobile PET/CT company and an ambulatory surgery center). Bob’s volunteerism efforts include being a Board Chair for the Central/Southern NJ American Heart Association for two years through June 30, 2022 and as a board member for three years before that and two years after that. He is a recent past Board member, Treasurer, and Chair of the Finance Committees of both the Organ Procurement & Transplant Network (OPTN) and United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the organization that operates the OPTN. He is a member of the board of Transplant Recipients International Organization’s (TRIO) Philadelphia Chapter; he has been a speaker on behalf of Gift of Life, the Philadelphia based organ procurement organization; and he is an emeritus member of the Patient & Family Advisory Council at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Bob holds a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University and an MBA with a concentration in Healthcare Administration from Wagner College in New York.
Edward Hilzenrath, Esq. - Ed Hilzenrath represents a broad array of health care providers across a spectrum of healthcare-related legal matters, including corporate, transactional, and regulatory issues. His clients include hospitals, physicians, physician groups, ambulatory surgical centers, imaging centers, management services organizations, and private equity backed health care organizations. Ed advises clients on practice formations and sales, buy-sell agreements, employment issues, practice mergers, fraud and abuse, anti-kickback and Stark law compliance, HIPAA compliance, and professional board matters. In addition, Ed proactively counsels clients about the impact of new health care legislation. A frequent contributor to Brach Eichler’s monthly Health Law Update, Ed authors articles on a variety of health law subjects. He currently contributes a monthly piece on health care legislation and regulatory developments. Prior to joining Brach Eichler, Ed worked as a hedge fund professional, focusing on trading equities, derivatives, currencies, commodities, and fixed-income products. Ed received his bachelor's degree from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York.
Dennis G. Hursh, Esq. - Dennis Hursh, a veteran physicians’ lawyer, is a frequent lecturer on physician contracts to residency and fellowship programs and has spoken at events by American Health Law Association, American Osteopathic Association, White Coat Investor, American College of Rheumatology, American Podiatry Association, and numerous health systems and physician organizations. Dennis is Vice Chair, Labor and Employment Practice Group, American Health Law Association, and has literally “written the book” on physician employment agreement negotiation - “The Final Hurdle - A Physicians’ Guide to Negotiating a Fair Employment Agreement.” Dennis represents physicians in all 50 states in reviewing and negotiating employment agreements from both a legal and financial perspective. His firm, Physician Agreements Health Law, was the first law firm in the nation to focus exclusively on physician employment agreements and offers a fixed fee review of physician employment agreements to protect physicians in one of the biggest transactions of their careers.
Katherine B. Kravitz, Esq - Katherine B. Kravitz(“Kathy”) is a partner at Barley Snyder, LLP and a member of the firm’s Health Care Industry Group and Litigation Practice Group. In her 35 years of practice with Barley Snyder, Kathy has served as counselor and problem-solver for health care providers throughout central Pennsylvania. She has defended health care providers in litigation throughout her entire career, including the most serious of cases involving adult brain injury and birth injuries. Her diverse health care practice gives her insight essential to effective representation of providers in litigation and in the courtroom. Kathy has also guided numerous Pennsylvania professional licensees through Department of State complaint investigations. Whether preparing a provider for deposition or trial, Kathy’s broad-based understanding of the legal and practical issues facing health care providers helps prepare the best possible defense for her clients. Over the course of her career, Kathy has volunteered with several health care related non-profit organizations. She is a past President of the Board of Mental Health American/Lancaster. She served as Vice President of the Board of the Touchstone Foundation, and Vice President of the Board of the American Heart Association in Lancaster. This fall, Kathy will begin her tenure as a member of the Board of Directors for the Schreiber Pediatric Foundation. Kathy is Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Health Law Committee.
Lynn Lucas-Fehm, MD, JD - 175th PAMED President - Lynn Lucas-Fehm, MD, JD is a third-generation physician born in Indianapolis, Indiana, following the footsteps of her grandfather, father and paternal aunt. Dr. Lucas-Fehm received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, followed by a medical degree with the University of Cincinnati. Her residency and fellowship were completed at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. She earned her juris doctor degree from Temple University School of Law. Dr. Lucas-Fehm is a board-certified diagnostic radiologist with Mid Atlantic Radiology Consultants. Her subspecialty is breast imaging and intervention, including digital breast tomosynthesis, breast ultrasound, breast MRI, and image guided breast biopsies. She has worked in the private sector as well as academic departments at Pennsylvania Hospital and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. She was a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at Jefferson Medical College from 2002 to 2008 followed by 16 years with the Radiology Group of Abington. She joined Mid Atlantic Radiology Consultants in July 2024. Dr. Lucas-Fehm has been an active member of organized medicine at the county and state level. She served as president of the Philadelphia County Medical Society from 2011- 2012 and served on the Board of KePro, a prior PAMED quality improvement subsidiary, from 2002 to 2012. She has been on the Board of Trustees of PAMED since 2015. In 2025, she was recognized as a Trailblazer in Healthcare from City & State Pennsylvania. In addition to her positions at PAMED, Dr. Lucas-Fehm is a member of numerous national medical societies including the American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America, American Roentgen Ray Society and Society of Breast Imaging. At the state level she is a member of the Pennsylvania Radiological Society and the Pennsylvania Bar Association. She is a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. During her role as President of PAMED, she has been speaking about the effects of private equity in medicine and advocating for the creation of balanced guidelines that protect patients when private equity is involved in healthcare. In addition, she has been speaking with physician colleagues about practice model options for the provision of health care to Pennsylvania’s patients.
Eric Matava, Esq. – Eric M. Matava is an accomplished healthcare attorney with extensive experience advising health systems on complex legal, regulatory, and compliance matters. Since November 2019, he has served as Chief Legal Officer for Mount Nittany Health, where he provides strategic legal counsel on a broad range of healthcare issues, including HIPAA/privacy, Medicare and Medicaid regulations, the False Claims Act, physician self-referral and anti-kickback laws, EMTALA, and employment law. In this role, he oversees system-wide compliance, risk management, and security programs, guides corporate governance, negotiates and drafts contracts, and manages litigation and claims. From January 2016 to November 2019, Mr. Matava was an associate in the Health Care/FDA Practice Group at K&L Gates LLP in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, following his earlier tenure as a 2014 summer associate with the firm. His work at K&L Gates included advising hospitals and health systems on federal and state privacy requirements, healthcare fraud and abuse laws, nonprofit corporate governance, EMTALA compliance, physician contracting, and strategic transactions. He also contributed to the firm’s thought leadership, co-authoring publications on HIPAA, cybersecurity, and settlement practices, and represented clients in intellectual property disputes. His pro bono service at the firm included representing domestic violence survivors in Protection From Abuse proceedings and assisting victims of nonconsensual online image distribution through the Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project. Earlier in his career, Mr. Matava gained litigation experience as a law clerk with Greenfield & Kraut, Attorneys at Law, and served as a legislative intern in the office of U.S. Representative F. James Sensenbrenner in Washington, D.C. Mr. Matava earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he served as Research Editor for the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics, summa cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to his professional work, Mr. Matava is committed to community service. He has served on the Board of Directors of The Open Door, a nonprofit based in Indiana, Pennsylvania, since 2018, and has been a member of the United School District Board of Directors—serving as Board President—since 2013.
Jason Newton, JD - Jason Newton is Chief Legal Officer at Curi Holdings, Inc. He joined Curi in 2013 after a 14-year career in private law practice defending doctors, advanced practice providers, and hospitals. Curi is a national mutual insurance, wealth management and advisory firm headquartered in Raleigh, NC with 13 offices across the country from Jackson Hole to Washington, DC. The insurance company serves over 50,000 healthcare providers and the registered investment advisory firm has approximately $14 billion in assets under advisement. The company’s mission is to help physicians in medicine, business and life. Jason has been selected to serve on five editorial advisory boards for Law360, the go-to national daily online legal publication for lawyers and he has authored or contributed to nearly 30 publications. Jason is a nationally recognized and frequently sought-after speaker, and organizations coast-to-coast regularly ask Jason to speak on a variety of topics relevant to physicians around the country. He has given over 150 presentations to audiences of over 12,000 healthcare providers, lawyers, and medical liability industry professionals. Jason has a BA in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a JD from Wake Forest University School of Law.
Caroline Patterson, Esq. - Caroline Patterson brings more than 25 years of legal experience to her work representing health care practices and industry professionals in transactional, corporate and regulatory matters. Caroline is a prominent healthcare and business attorney with a reputation for sound judgment, responsiveness, and a creative approach to achieving her client’s legal and business objectives and concentrates her practice on a wide variety of healthcare matters, including mergers, acquisitions, sales, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, private equity investments, HIPAA compliance, federal and state laws fraud and abuse laws, ownership and compensation arrangements, and employment negotiations. Investigators and clinical institutions also look to her for advice on clinical trial agreements and clinical research law. Caroline’s clients include physician practices, hospitals, health systems, management service organizations, life science and other healthcare consulting companies, dental practices, physical therapists, ambulatory care facilities, and individual healthcare professionals. Caroline is a frequent lecturer and contributor to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and the American Society of Retina Specialist on advanced legal topics related to healthcare, including mergers, acquisitions, private equity, fraud and abuse, clinical research, and employment law matters. Caroline is also a regular contributor to Brach Eichler’s monthly Health Law Update. She received her bachelor's degree from Cabrini University and her J.D. from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Mary-Lynn Ryan, JD - Ms. Ryan is a Senior Risk Management Consultant in the Medical Professional Liability Division of ProAssurance. Since 2007, she has been providing patient safety and liability risk management services and educational programs to insureds. Prior to joining ProAssurance, Mary-Lynn was a staff attorney at the California Medical Association. She started her professional career as a litigator at Bonne, Bridges, Meuller, O'Keefe & Nichols, a Los Angeles, CA medical liability defense firm. In addition to her duties at ProAssurance, Mary-Lynn is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, where she teaches “Legal Issues for New Dentists,” a required course for fourth year dental students. Mary-Lynn received her JD degree, cum laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law and is licensed to practice in California. She recently completed a graduate certificate program in Health Ethics, and is a member of the American, and Minnesota Societies of Healthcare Risk Management.
Hon. David W. Sunday, Jr. Esq. Pennsylvania Attorney General - The decision to join the United States Navy after high school would become a defining moment, setting the course for his future and shaping his character, experiences, and opportunities in a profound way. As an enlisted recruit he was deployed to the Persian Gulf where he participated in Operation Desert Strike. Attorney General Sunday was also deployed to South America and conducted numerous counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean. While serving, he learned what it takes to be an effective leader under tremendous pressure. He proudly carries on the Navy core principles of honor, commitment, and courage to this day. During Law School, Attorney General Sunday had the opportunity to work as a legal intern at the United Nations Office of the Secretariat in New York where he was assigned to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. After graduation from law school, he worked as Law Clerk for the Honorable Joseph C. Adams, York County Court of Common Pleas. Attorney General Sunday has been a prosecutor with the York County District Attorney's Office since 2009, where he served in various roles. In addition to serving as District Attorney for the past seven years, he supervised Major Crime cases and the Felony Narcotics Unit. Additionally, he served as the Legal Advisor to the District Attorney's Drug Task Force and York County Quick Response (a.k.a. SWAT) Team. In 2013, Attorney General Sunday was appointed by the United States Department of Justice as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, where he assisted in the prosecution of gang, illegal gun, and drug cases in Federal Court. It was during this time period that he led the prosecution of Operation Sunrise, which was a large-scale multijurisdictional arrest and prosecution of over 100 members and/or affiliates of the "Latin Kings," a violent criminal gang operating in York County. As an elected District Attorney, he led York County's fight against the opioid epidemic, fought to protect seniors through his role on the Elder Abuse Task Force, helped to forge partnerships with healthcare systems and the courts to deal with the increasing challenges surrounding mental health, and personally tried approximately SO felony jury t rials to verdict including the successful prosecution of more than 10 of the most high-profile York County murder trials in recent memory. In addition to homicides, Attorney General Sunday has successfully prosecuted Murder Conspiracies, the Attempted Murder of a Police Officer, multiple Murders for Hire, Felony Narcotics Deliveries, Aggravated Assaults, Burglaries, Armed Robberies, Bank Robberies, Insurance Fraud Cases, Thefts and Elder Fraud Scams to name a few. Beyond trial work, Attorney General Sunday previously served as President of the York County Bar Association, Chair of the York Opioid Collaborative, Chair of the Education and Training Committee of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association (PDAA), was appointed to the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing by Speaker of the House Mike Turzai in 2020, and was selected to serve on behalf of the PDAA on the Pennsylvania Commission for Crime and Delinquency's (PCCD) statewide Mental Health and Justice Advisory Committee. Attorney General Sunday and his wife have one son and reside in York County.
Catherine E. Walters, Esq. - Catherine E. Walters provides exclusive management-side labor and employment services for employers of all sizes, including privately and publicly held companies, government contractors, institutions of higher education, health care providers, trade associations and other non-profit organizations. Her practice spans an array of industries, including financial and banking, manufacturing, defense contracting, education, health care, professional services, insurance, construction, technology, retail, real estate, transportation, restaurant and hospitality. Catherine’s extensive experience and collaborative skills enable her to partner with her clients to develop creative, practical, business-oriented solutions to their legal challenges. She focuses on identifying current and emerging trends in order to provide clients with proactive legal advice aimed at managing and preventing emerging risks. Her emphasis on strategic thinking and focused solutions enables her to provide employers with the sophisticated counsel that has become necessary in today’s complex business environment. Catherine regularly appears before federal and state courts and administrative agencies where she handles both employment and traditional labor matters.
Tracey Ziegler, RN, BSN - Tracey Ziegler, RN, BSN, is the Director of the LifeGuard Clinical Assessment Program, a nationally recognized initiative that delivers comprehensive, objective clinical competency evaluations for physicians. She joined LifeGuard in 2023 and quickly rose to her leadership role, bringing with her more than 28 years of experience in healthcare. Tracey’s professional background spans clinical administration, patient safety, healthcare consulting, and quality improvement. At LifeGuard, she leads a multidisciplinary team in conducting individualized assessments for physicians referred for various reasons, including regulatory review, fitness-for-duty evaluations, and return-to-practice evaluations. Tracey is known for her collaborative leadership and commitment to patient safety and physician accountability. She is a strong advocate for high standards in clinical practice and professional development. She is an active member of the Coalition for Physician Enhancement (CPE) and currently serves on its Board of Directors, contributing to national conversations on physician competence and remediation.