Lisa Murtha serves as a Managing Director for Huron Consulting Group based in New York and Philadelphia. She focuses her practice in clinical research compliance (human subject protections, effort reporting, scientific misconduct, conflicts of interest, and clinical trial billing and process improvement), revenue cycle work, billing and coding issues, internal investigations, corporate governance/ethics, and HIPAA work. Prior to joining Huron she served as the Vice President of Audit, Compliance and Chief Privacy Officer for The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), the Stokes Research Institute, and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Practice Association.

Ms. Murtha received her BA (with Distinction) from The Pennsylvania State University in 1983 and her JD from the Dickinson School of Law in 1986. Ms. Murtha worked as the Chief Compliance Officer for the University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania Health System, and prior to that as the Corporate Compliance Director for Pennsylvania Blue Shield (focussing primarily on Medicare Carrier Contract Compliance).

Ms. Murtha is a former Board member of the International Association of Privacy Officers. Ms. Murtha is also a Founding Board Member and former officer of the Health Care Compliance Association. Ms. Murtha frequently lectures nationally on compliance-related issues and has published numerous articles on various health care and research topics, and she provides advisory services to BNA and other publications.