Rodney J. Repko

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Sayre, Pennsylvania 18840

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acv6w2@r.postjobfree.com

Current: Consultant

Bresset & Santora, LLC

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Forty Fort, PA

570-***-****

Previous: Executive Vice President, General Counsel

1982-1998 Guthrie Clinic Ltd.

Guthrie Square

Sayre, PA 18840

1981-1982 Associate General Counsel

Geisinger System Services

Danville, PA

1981-1982 Assistant Secretary

Geisinger Foundation, Geisinger System Services, Geisinger Medical

Center, Geisinger Clinic, Marworth, Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical

Center

Responsibilities: General - As EVP and General Counsel at Guthrie Clinic I had

primary responsibility for professional liability defense (in nearly 17 years

we did not lose a single case to verdict), educating physicians and staff on

risk and liability issues, drafting, preparation and review of contracts,

drafting and review of certain executive communications, corporate

organization, formation and compliance, negotiating and placing

comprehensive general and professional liability coverage for the 250-

physician Clinic, financial statements and accounting issues, public

financing, corporate mergers and acquisitions, risk management, in-house

entry into and compliance with NY State foreign professional corporation

laws, medicare/Medicaid reimbursement, bonds and bond-related issues,

antitrust review, and corporate affiliation and merger activity, and all

matters related to tax exempt organizations. At Guthrie I spoke on tort and

liability issues annually at a conference Guthrie sponsored for a number of

years.

Accomplishments: In 1988 I conceived of and implemented the nations first

successful application for 501(c)(3) status of a free-standing professional

corporation (i.e., not a state non-profit corporation) in 1988, and spoke

nationally on the subject on numerous occasions.

I co-founded the Pennsylvania Society of Hospital Attorneys, along with a

handful of other Pennsylvania lawyers, and ran the organizations seminar/

programming activities for several years,. I also served as a board

member and President. The organization quickly evolved into one of the

most robust of its kind in the nation, with membership growing into the

hundreds in Pennsylvania, and our substantive educational programs

quickly becoming approved and used by PLI and the Pennsylvania Bar

Association for substantive CLE credits. I was a frequent speaker at the

Societys meetings on a number of issues related to health care and the

law.

I authored the testimony presented by the Geisinger organization before

the Pennsylvania legislature on the Uniform Determination of Death Act,

within the context of a pediatric patient determined to be clinically brain

dead, but whose support could not be removed out of fear that the criminal

defendant who caused the childs death would avoid prosecution if the

hospital honored the parents and physicians authorization to remove life

support. As a result, the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania awarded

me a copy of the Bill as approved, with the pen Gov. Dick Thornburgh

used to sign it into law.

I have spoken extensively on matters related to health care and the law,

including multiple national presentations around the United States for the

National Health Lawyers Association (now AHLA) on tax exempt

organizations, and was invited to author a chapter in a University of

Minnesota book on Outpatient Urologic Surgery. I also served as an

instructor for a remote course on law for students at Mansfield University

for one year, held on the Guthrie campus in Sayre.

Education: University of Pennsylvania, B.A. cum laude, in English Literature, 1977.

I was one of 13 in my class to be invited to participate in the English

Honors Program at Penn, comprised of two years of focused study with

faculty, and the production of an honors thesis. With a major

concentration in Shakespearean literature, my thesis (graded A-) focused

on metaphorical aspects in several of Shakespeares plays.

University of Virginia, 1977-1978

I began my graduate studies in English Literature at UVA in 1977. Those

studies were interrupted by family illness, and the resulting need to re-

focus career plans, and to accelerate by plans to attend law school. While

at UVA I also served as a graduate teaching assistant in an undergraduate

course on Shakespearean drama, and also worked as an assistant to the

dean of the graduate school.

University of Maryland School of Law 1978-1981. Juris Doctorate

awarded, 1981.

I have not actively practiced law in several years, and have most recently done advising

and consulting work with the law firm of Bresset & Santora LLC, in northeast

Pennsylvania. I am highly skilled at drafting and editing written work, often involving

complex legal, medical and scientific subjects. I have been involved in and managed a

number of highly complex pieces of commercial litigation, and have experience with

corporate and business financial principles, documents, and issues.

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