Christina joins the firm as a partner in Benesch’s Healthcare+ Practice Group and focuses her practice on healthcare regulatory and transactional matters. She also advises clients on cyber-security risks and assists in addressing security incidents, ransomware attacks and post-breach response issues.

“Christina is an outstanding attorney, and we welcome her to the firm,” said Frank Carsonie, Chair of Benesch’s Healthcare+ Practice Group.  “Our clients in the healthcare industry face a rapidly changing regulatory landscape, and Christina brings with her an impressive and varied background. Her IT and data privacy experience will be invaluable in helping clients implement sophisticated software solutions without compromising the confidentiality and security of patient data.”   

Christina has significant experience in the negotiation of a broad range of healthcare agreements, including IT and software purchases for all types of healthcare entities. She also frequently advises hospitals, physicians, healthcare joint ventures, ancillary providers and their boards on healthcare matters such as fraud and abuse compliance, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, alliances, formation, financing, criminal investigations, audit responses, business contracts, Medicare, Medicaid and third-party reimbursement matters, shared savings and other payment models, software licensing, HIPAA/HITECH and state data privacy compliance, productivity compensation methodologies and clinically integrated networks.

Christina received her Ph.D., magna cum laude, from Dresden University of Technology in Germany in 2006 and her J.D. equivalent from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany in 1997.