UCLA School of Law, J.D., 1999
Editor-in-Chief, UCLA Entertainment Law Review

University of Pennsylvania, B.A., Political Science and English, cum laude, 1995

Kime v Dignity Health, 101 Cal. App. 5th 708 (2024) (affirming dismissal of emergency care physician’s claims for denial of fair procedure, following the discontinuation of his application for membership and privileges, based on a prior summary suspension of his privileges by another hospital and the client hospital’s contract with the physician’s emergency group foreclosing physicians with prior adverse disciplinary history from applying for membership and privileges).

Medical Staff of St. Mary Medical Center v. St. Mary Medical Center (Cal. Ct. App. 2022) (affirming denial of petition for writ of mandate by medical staff against client hospital for alleged violations of medical staff self-governance statute and bylaws arising from hospital’s exclusive contracting decisions and nonapproval of amendments to medical staff bylaws).

Sarun v. Dignity Health, 2022 WL 2815569 (Cal. App. 2022) (affirming grant of summary adjudication dismissing class action against hospital system client by uninsured emergency room patients complaining that conditions of admission agreements contained an unenforceable “open” price term).

Natarajan v. Dignity Health, 11 Cal. 5th 1095 (2021) (Unanimous Supreme Court decision affirming denial of physician’s writ of mandate challenging client hospital’s termination of the physician’s medical staff membership and privileges; first impression ruling rejecting claim that a peer review hearing officer is biased based on his past and pending hearing officer work at other hospitals operated by the same client).

Medical Staff of Saint Mary Medical Center v Dignity Health, Case No. 20STCP01915 (Los Angeles Superior Court) (denying writ of mandate by medical staff against client hospital for alleged violations of medical staff self-governance statute and bylaws arising from hospital’s exclusive contracting decisions and refusal to approve amendments to medical staff bylaws).