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Committees

State Bar of Michigan Health Care Law Section Substantive Law Committee and Substantive Law Subcommittee Members for 2008-2009 HCLS year.

The Substantive Law Committee and Substantive Law Subcommittee Members are:
SLC Positions: Joan Lowes (Chair of SLC - 08-10)
Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman, PC
201 W. Big Beaver Rd.,
Ste. 315 Columbia Center Troy, 48084

Tom McGraw (Vice Chair of SLC - 08-10)
Dykema Gossett, PLLC
400 Renaissance Ctr
Detroit, 48243


Phone: (248) 740-7505
Fax: (248) 740-7501
e-mail: Jlowes@hallrender.com





Phone: (313) 568-6500
Fax: (313) 568-6832
e-mail: tmcgraw@dykema.com

SLS Positions:

Medical Legal SLS (08-09):
Trish Shabath - Chair
Associate General Counsel Detroit Medical Center Legal Affairs
4704 St. Antoine, Ste. W514 Detroit, 48201

Steve Bender
Assistant General Counsel Trinity Health
34605 Twelve Mile Road Farmington Hills, 48331-3221

Patrick Haddad
Kerr Russell & Weber, PLC
500 Woodward Ave., Ste. 2500 Detroit, 48226


Phone: (313) 966-2330
Fax: (313) 966-2040
e-mail: pschabat@dmc.org




Phone: (248) 489-6755
Fax: (248) 489-6775
e-mail: BENDERS@trinity-health.org



Phone: (313) 961-0200
Fax: (313) 961-0388
e-mail: pjh@krwlaw.com
 

Payors SLS (08-09):
Patrick Shannon - Chair
Director of Charter Schools Bay Mills Community College
12214 W. Lakeshore Dr.
Brimley, 49715

Christine Pfeiffer
HealthPlus of Michigan
2050 S. Linden Rd.
Flint, 48532

Chris Cobb
U.S. Health and Life Insurance Company
8220 Irving Road
Sterling Heights, 48312


Phone: (906) 248-3354 x4230
Fax: (906) 635-1724
e-mail: pshannon@bmcc.edu



Phone: (810) 230-2055
Fax: (810) 230-2197
e-mail: cpfeiffe@healthplus.com


Phone: (586) 693-4300
Fax: (586) 693-1229
e-mail: christophercobb@hotmail.com
 

Providers SLS (08-09):
Jennifer Benedict - Chair
Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP
660 Woodward Ave, Ste. 2290 Detroit, 48226

Chris Shride
Chief Operations Officer Strategic Administrative & Reimbursement Services, LLC

Margaret Chamberlain
The Kitch Firm
2379 Woodlake Drive
Okemos, 48864


Phone: (313) 465-7326
Fax: (313) 465-7327
e-mail: jbenedict@honigman.com



Phone: (616) 363-7528
Fax: (616) 363-7458
e-mail: cshride@starsadmin.com


Phone: (313) 965-7438
Fax: (313) 965-7403
e-mail: m.chamberlain@kitch.com
 

Technology SLS (08-09):
Mark Kopson - Chair
Mark S. Kopson, PLC
725 Barclay Cir., Ste. 205 Rochester Hills, 48307

John Hazewinkel
Institute for Health Care Studies Michigan State University
D132 West Fee Hall
E. Lansing, 48824

Deborah Williamson
Foster Swift Collins & Smith, PC 32300 Northwestern Hwy Ste. 230 Farmington Hills, 48334


Phone: (248) 299-9999
Fax: (248) 299-0022
e-mail: mkopson@kopsonlaw.com


Phone: (517) 432-7285
e-mail: John.Hazewinkel@hc.msu.edu



Phone: (248) 539-9900
Fax: (248) 851-7504
e-mail: dwilliamson@fosterswift.com
  Legislative Update (08-09):
Laura Napiewocki - Chair
Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, PLLC
28000 Dequindre Rd.
Warren, 48092

Cara Nieboer
Warner Norcross & Judd LLP
990 Fifth Third Center
111 Lyon Street NW
Grand Rapids, 49503

Phone: (586) 753-0496
Fax: (586) 753-0491
e-mail: lnapiewocki@hallrender.com



Phone: (616) 752-2193
Fax: (616) 222-2193
e-mail: cnieboer@wnj.com