Pathways Panel: Career Pathways in Texas Healthcare

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Jan 24, 2023 - 07:00am

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The Pathways Series empowers students to learn more about and engage with various legal careers and professionals. Through the Pathways Series, the Center highlights a variety of career paths and successful lawyers. The program exposes Texas Law students to the diversity of the legal field and provides opportunities for mentorship and networking. The program supports professional development for Texas Law students beginning their careers and for more senior professionals. This program is valuable to first-generation students and students and lawyers from underrepresented groups.

Center for Women in Law and Texas Health Law Society hosted an in-person Healthcare Panel Pathways event for Texas Law students on 1/24/23 at UT Law School (TNH 3.124). They joined us to learn about the different career paths in health law.

The event included three panelists in the Texas Healthcare sector:

Meghan Kempf, Associate Director, IDD-BH and HSCS Team, Policy Department, HHSC Office of Chief Counsel

Shauna Lorenz, Partner, GJERSET & LORENZ, LLP

Geronimo M. Rodriguez, Jr., Chief Advocacy Officer, Ascension Texas

Learn more about our speakers here.

This event was generously sponsored by Bracewell LLP.

Support:

Meghan Kempf

Associate Director, IDD-BH and HSCS Team, Policy Department, HHSC Office of Chief Counsel

Meghan currently leads the legal policy team that supports mental health and intellectual and developmental disability services for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, including the state hospitals, state supported living centers, and community services.

Shauna Lorenz

Partner, GJERSET & LORENZ, LLP

Shauna Lorenz co-founded the national healthcare law firm of Gjerset & Lorenz, LLP in 1998. Ms. Lorenz’s legal practice focuses on advising health care providers in reimbursement, regulatory, legislative, and operational business matters.

Geronimo M. Rodriguez, Jr.

Chief Advocacy Officer, Ascension Texas

Geronimo M. Rodriguez Jr. currently serves as Chief Advocacy Officer for Ascension Texas which comprises Ascension Seton and Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas and Ascension Providence in Waco, Texas.