Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer for Pacific Dental Services LLP
Michael has specialized in healthcare compliance for over 20 years. He believes a values-based approach to ethics and compliance creates enormous benefits for companies, employees, and stakeholders. His programs are rooted in the ideal that by putting organizational values at the center of everything, the limitations of a rules-based mindset can be transcended. He is passionate about leveraging the power of values to elevate behavior. “People inspired by purpose and guided by commonly understood values create enormous power to self- govern around ethics and compliance while also materially contributing to a organization’s long-term significance.”
Michael is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and the New York Bar. He founded a law practice that specialized in all aspects of health care compliance, served as Assistant General Counsel in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health & Human Services, and has held Chief Compliance Officer, V.P. of Risk Management and Chief Privacy Officer positions in the private sector where he has successfully designed and implemented ethics and compliance programs rooted in the principles of values-based, self-governance.
Michael has presented his philosophy and experiences on ethics and compliance in various forums including Convercent’s Converge2019 in Denver, CO: The Ethics Impact; the Association of Dental Support Organizations Annual Summit in Austin, TX: Behavioral Compliance: Helping People Do the Next Right Thing; the NY HR People & Strategy (NYHRPS) Annual Meeting in New York City: Higher Purpose, Higher Performance; and the Consero Corporate Compliance & Ethics Forum General Session in Newport Beach, CA: Now That You Have Successfully Created A Corporate Culture of Compliance, What Are You Doing To Keep It?
Michael holds a Juris Doctor from New England Law – Boston and a B.A in Financial Economics from St. Anselm College. He is Certified in Healthcare Compliance and a Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional.
About Pacific Dental Services®
Founded in 1994, Pacific Dental Services (PDS) is one of the country’s leading dental support organizations, providing supported autonomy that enables clinicians to concentrate on clinical excellence and the highest levels of cost-effective comprehensive patient care. PDS pioneered the concept of Modern Dentistry so that dentists are equipped to combine advances in the latest technology with the best operational practices and procedures, highly skilled support staff and a commitment to ongoing training and education. PDS supports over 850 dental and medical practices in 25 states. PDS has been on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in America 13 times. PDS supported dentists aim to be the provider of choice in all the markets they serve and to develop Patients for LifeTM.
For more information, visit us at http://www.pacificdentalservices.com