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Catherine E. David (Galea) is a member of the Health Care & FDA Practice in Greenberg Traurig's Philadelphia office. She focuses her practice on health care regulatory, compliance, transactional, and enforcement matters. Cate concentrates her practice on the laws that govern health data, including, HIPAA, interoperability and information blocking regulations, Part 2, and similar state laws. Cate regularly handles responses to government investigations, policy drafting and implementation, and negotiating business associate agreements. She advises clients on health care licensing issues with mergers and acquisitions, fraud and abuse compliance under Stark Law and the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, and health information privacy and security compliance under HIPAA and state law.

Concentrations

  • Health care fraud and abuse
  • Health care government investigations and defense
  • HIPAA and health privacy & security
  • Data protection, privacy & cybersecurity
  • Life sciences
  • Life sciences transactions
  • Life sciences regulatory and compliance
  • FDA regulatory, compliance, and enforcement
  • Tech & data
  • Digital & transformative technologies’
  • Digital health & med tech
  • False claims act
  • Health care private equity

Capabilities

Experience

  • Law Clerk, Office of the General Counsel, University of Pennsylvania, 2016
  • Legal Research Intern, Public Health Management Corporation, 2016
  • Legal Intern, Office of the General Counsel, Drexel University, 2015
  • Legal Intern, Legal Clinic for the Disabled Inc, Radiation and Oncology Department at Hahnemann Hospital, 2014
  • Judicial Intern, Hon. Carolyn T. Carluccio, Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, 2014

Recognition & Leadership

  • Guest Lecturer on health care data privacy and compliance, Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law

Credentials

Education
  • J.D., summa cum laude, Health Law Concentration Honors, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, 2016
  • M.P.H., Drexel University, 2016
  • B.A., Dickinson College, 2011
Admissions
  • Pennsylvania
  • District of Columbia