Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs/Chief Legal Officer
Cedars-Sinai
Terri Wagner Cammarano, JD, LLM, CHA
Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs and Chief Legal Officer
Terri Wagner Cammarano, JD, LLM, CHC, brings considerable legal experience to Cedars-Sinai, having served in private practice and in executive legal roles with major Southern California health systems. At Cedars-Sinai, Cammarano advises the Board of Directors and senior management on legal, compliance and tax matters. She manages the Legal Affairs Department and outside counsel and ensures that leadership has access to appropriate legal guidance.
Cammarano has represented health systems, hospitals, and other healthcare providers in all types of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, joint operating agreements, affiliations, financings and strategic collaborations. She has managed attorney general proceedings, reports and investigations, federal and state tax audits, regulatory investigations, and licensure and certification matters. Cammarano has extensive experience with governance, tax-exemption and nonprofit issues, health care regulatory compliance, executive compensation, strategic planning and implementation of growth strategies.
Before joining Cedars-Sinai, she was a partner with Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, P.C., in Los Angeles, where she counseled and advocated for health systems, hospitals, medical practice foundations and related service providers. Prior to that, Cammarano held the position of general counsel and was a member of the executive leadership team of MemorialCare Health System and before that, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian. In these roles, she capitalized on her prior experience of over 20 years in private law practice representing health care providers, and was responsible for planning and coordinating legal affairs, government relations, litigation management and strategy, legal support for business transactions and oversight of all outside counsel and various consultants and subject matter experts/advisors.
Cammarano earned her undergraduate degree with high honors from California State University, Fullerton, and her JD and Master of Laws (Tax) degrees from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She is admitted to practice in California, Hawaii and Massachusetts, and maintains Certification in Health Care Compliance. She has served as adjunct faculty at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and is a long-time member of the Planning Committee for, and a regular presenter at, the Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations.
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