Tara L. Adyanthaya is Special Counsel in the Firm’s Healthcare Practice. Ms. Adyanthaya represents hospital systems, physician practice groups, and other healthcare providers in a range of regulatory and business matters. Tara’s areas of expertise include:
- Corporate Governance (Hospital Medical Staff Bylaws)
- Credentialing and Peer Review
- Issues Arising in the Patient-Family-Provider Relationship
- Advising Hospital Committees
- EMTALA
- Healthcare Investigations and Internal Reviews
- Litigation
- Medical Ethics
- Patient Care/Hospital Operation Issues
- Decision Making Capacity, Patient Consents
- End of Life Issues
- Physician and Nursing Licensing Issues
- Physician Subpoena/Requests for Production
- Professional Licensure and Scope of Practice Issues
- Conflict Resolution and Risk Management
- Behavioral and Mental Health Issues
Ms. Adyanthaya previously served as an Associate General Counsel for Healthcare at Emory University where she advised hospitals, hospital committees, and individual providers on compliance with legal and ethical obligations. She is a 2012 Woodruff Leadership Academy Fellow. Ms. Adyanthaya also has a masters’ degree in Bioethics and has participated in and advised on the intersection of law and medical ethics in complex medical scenarios. She is a registered neutral with the Supreme Court of Georgia and has specialized training in bioethics mediation.
Ms. Adyanthaya also founded her own healthcare ethics consulting and mediation firm, TLA Healthcare Ethics Consulting and Mediation LLC, where she provides advance care-planning advice, clinical ethics consultation, and mediation to healthcare providers, patients and families.
