Mintz Levin Attorney Stephen Weiner to Speak at Second Annual Latin America Medical Travel Summit
5/2/2011
Boston, MA – Stephen M. Weiner, a member and chair of the Health Law practice of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., will present at the Medical Travel International Business Summit in San Jose, Costa Rica. The summit is being held May 2-4.
Mr. Weiner will make two presentations, the first at the plenary session is entitled “Legal Issues and Medical Travel: Addressing the Pitfalls.” In addition, he will be participating in a roundtable discussion on “What Employers Need to Know about Employee Medical Travel.”
The Summit, which will include exhibitors and speakers from around Latin America, is sponsored by the Council for the International Promotion of Costa Rica Medicine (PROMED) and the Costa Rica Tourism Board (ICT) as well as the Costa Rica Foreign Trade Promoter (PROCOMER).
Mr. Weiner has more than 30 years of experience in health care as a policy maker, educator, and attorney representing health care services providers in a broad array of matters, in the U.S. and abroad. He has been active in the development of Massachusetts’ signature health care reform program as well as in the implementation of the Commonwealth’s electronic health record initiative. Internationally, he played a key role in structuring the health care regulatory system for Dubai Healthcare City and represents many organizations engaged in “medical tourism.”
Mr. Weiner currently serves as a board member of the Massachusetts Health Council and is the board chair of The HealthWell Foundation, one of the leading national charitable organizations providing financial assistance to underinsured persons in need of high cost drug treatments. He served as a board member of the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and as a member of the House of Delegates of the Massachusetts Easter Seal Society.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Weiner served as Chairman of the Massachusetts Rate Setting Commission, Special Assistant to the Governor of Massachusetts for health policy and Director of the Boston University Center for Law and Health Sciences. Nationally ranked by Chambers USA for his strategic and policy work, he has been named among The Best Lawyers in America, Boston’s Best Lawyers as well as an “Outstanding Hospital Lawyer” by Nightingale’s Healthcare News.
Outside of the health care field, Mr. Weiner is a member of the board of trustees of The Boston Ballet, Opera Boston and the New England Conservatory Lab Charter School Foundation.
