Vickie J. Williams

Vickie J. Williams Associate Dean & Associate Professor vwilliams@lawschool.gonzaga.edu (509) 313-3776 B.S., Tufts University, 1985 J.D., New York University School of Law, 1990

Biographical Information

Before joining the faculty of Gonzaga Law School in 2003, Professor Williams practiced law as an associate with Perkins Coie in Seattle, Washington from 1990-1995, and as an associate and then shareholder with Bennett Bigelow & Leedom, P.S. from 1995-2003.  Her practice focused on representation of institutional and individual health care providers with regard to regulatory affairs, corporate compliance, public and private payment issues, and fraud and abuse. 

During the course of her practice, Prof. Williams acted as a Special Assistant Attorney General representing the University of Washington and Harborview Medical Centers, and the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is a member and past president of the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys, and an author and editor of the Washington Health Law Manual. She is also a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association and the American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics.

She is admitted, to practice in the Supreme Court of Washington, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington. Professor Williams was selected as a 2005-2006 Health Law Scholar by St. Louis University School of Law’s Center for Health Law Studies.

Publications

• Co-author of Government Payors of Medical Services, Washington Health Law Manual (2009)
• The Healthy Washington Initiative: Blue-Ribbon Process, Red-Herring Result, 35:3 Fordham Urban Law Journal 601 (2008)
• Fluconomics - Preserving Our Hospital Infrastructure During and After a Pandemic, 7 Yale Journal of Health Law, Policy and Ethics, Volume VII (2007)
• Dead Men Telling Tales: A Policy-Based Proposal For Survivability of Qui Tam Actions Under the Civil False Claims Act, 83:4 Nebraska Law Review 1073 (2005)

Presentations

• The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care: Causes and Solutions, "Concurring Opinions" (Einer Elhauge, ed., 2010), Oct. 12-14
• The Conscience of For-Profit Health Care, the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics’ 33rd Annual Health Law Professor’s Conference, Austin, Texas, June, 2010
• Conscience Clash - Legal Ethics and Provider Conscience Clauses, Annual Meeting of the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys at the University of Washington School of Law, April 24, 2009
• Walking the Tightrope - Coding Compliance in the Electronic Age, Washington State Health Information Managers Association, April 2009
• The New Federal Provider Conscience Regulation and its Ethical Implications, Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys' Annual Spring Conference, Seattle, Wash., April, 2009
• Coding Compliance, Washington State Health Information Managers Association, March 2009
• Walking the Tightrope - Coding Compliance in the Electronic Age, delivered to the American Health Information Managers Association (AHIMA), Seattle, Wash., October 11, 2008 
• Has been invited to speak at the 2008 national conference of the American Health Information Managers' Association regarding health care fraud and abuse, and automated coding systems
• Congressional Rent-Seeking and Revitalizing State Tax Immunity, panel discussion, American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics Health Law Teachers' Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., June, 2008
• Fluconomics - Preparing Our Hospitals for the Economic Impact of Pandemic Disease, scholars' panel on Health Care Law and The Takings Clause, panel discussion,American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics Health Law Teachers’ Conference
  Baltimore, Md., June, 2006
• Fluconomics - Preserving Our Hospital Infrastructure, During and After a Pandemic, Health Care Financial Managers’ Association (HFMA), Washington and Alaska Chapter, Spokane, Wash., June, 2006
• Invited to address the Washington/Alaska chapter of the Healthcare Financial Managers' Association (HFMA), Spokane, Wash., May 18, 2006
• Encouraging Defiance or Promoting Compliance—The Need for Public Health Emergency Compensation For Health Care Providers, Health Law Scholars Workshop, sponsored by the St. Louis University Center for Health Law Studies and The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2006
• Legal Issues Arising in the Context of Quarantine and Isolation, American Health Lawyers’ Association Annual Meeting In-House Counsel Program, New York, N.Y., June, 2004
• Supreme Court Update on Cases Affecting Health Care, Washington State Society of Health Care Attorneys Hospital And Health Law Seminar, Seattle, Wash., April, 2004
• Breaking Down the Divide: Contemporary Corporate Theory Applied to the Health Care Industry, panel member, The Center on Corporations, Law & Society, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Wash., Feb., 2004

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