Chief Counsel, Health

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the chief legal advisor on healthcare, regulatory, compliance, governance, risk management, and operational matters.
• Advise executive leadership on strategic initiatives, affiliations, transactions, and organizational priorities.
• Provide counsel on clinical operations, academic medicine, research activities, privacy, cybersecurity, healthcare innovation, and emerging technologies.
• Collaborate with leaders across the health system, campus, and the University of California on complex legal and policy matters.
• Lead and develop a team of attorneys and legal professionals supporting the health enterprise.

Qualifications

• Must possess a J.D. from an accredited law school.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in healthcare, preferably related to operation of academic medical centers.
• Must be a member in good standing of the California Bar.
• (Out-of-state hire would be afforded time to pass the Bar within a reasonable period.)
• Previous management or supervisory experience and/or significant project management experience.
• Outstanding skills in the ability to lead by influence and consensus.
• Ability to exercise good judgment and to make good decisions quickly, often with incomplete information available and under circumstances where different stakeholders have inconsistent positions.
• Deep knowledge of health and hospital law and extensive experience developing and managing complex health care transactions.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work cooperatively with other attorneys, groups, clients and constituencies with differing priorities and perspectives.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills to interact effectively and develop and maintain productive working relationships with an array of diverse interests, individuals, and constituencies.
• Demonstrated ability to think creatively to assist the UCSD Health executive team and UC Legal leaders in solving problems of the greatest complexity.
• Demonstrated ability to act as a team player in all circumstances, as defined by contributing to the successful outcome of initiatives, accountabilities, and operations of others.
• Ability to work collaboratively across administrative and academic units and to build consensus.