F. Lisa Murtha, Partner / SNR Denton
Lisa Murtha is a member of SNR Denton’s Health Care Group. Ms. Murtha has over 25 years of experience working on complex clinical research and healthcare compliance issues. She focuses her practice in corporate ethics and compliance programs, and in both sponsor and research site clinical research compliance which includes Physician Sunshine Act compliance, aggregate/promo spend issues, off-label use issues, issues related to payments to health care professionals, human subject protections, effort reporting/grant accounting, scientific misconduct, conflicts of interest, internal auditing and monitoring, and clinical trial billing and process improvement. Ms. Murtha's clients include large and small hospitals and health systems and academic medical centers as well as pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Ms. Murtha also provides guidance regarding revenue cycle work, billing and coding issues, internal investigations, compliance program effectiveness, corporate governance/ethics, and HIPAA related matters.

Author of numerous articles and books on research, healthcare compliance, and fraud and abuse topics in publications including HC Pro, The Journal of Health Care Compliance, Widener University Law Journal, The Philadelphia Business Journal, Aspen Publishers Compliance Handbook, Medical Research Law and Policy Report (BNA), The HCCA Compliance Newsletter, CCH publications, and Patient Safety Meets Corporate Compliance (Book-HCPro Publisher). Ms. Murtha's latest book on research compliance is published by BNA.

Ms. Murtha earned a J.D. from Dickinson School of Law and a B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University. She is certified in healthcare compliance in Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.

Kevin R. Eskew, Managing Director / SNR Denton
Kevin Eskew is a managing director in SNR Denton's Health and Life Sciences practice. With more than 14 years of experience serving both health care and educational organizations as both an administrator and a management consultant, he regularly works with clients to improve their operational, organizational and financial effectiveness. He does this by taking actions to limit the impact of identified risks and uncover opportunities to enhance overall performance improvement, then designing actionable strategies that can protect a client's compliance management interests while fortifying market position.

Mr. Eskew has led numerous engagements aimed at improving the effectiveness of the clinical research programs of many different health care provider organizations. He also works extensively with health care organizations—including hospitals, academic medical centers, biopharmaceutical and managed care companies—to ensure compliance program effectiveness. His client experiences span work in organizational redesign, business process improvement, operations assessment and interim program leadership. He has also helped some major universities through non-salary cost reduction initiatives, conducted economic impact studies and led strategic planning and development projects for a number of health care and educational organizations. Mr. Eskew earned an M.B.A. from Indiana University and a B.A. from DePauw University. He is certified in healthcare compliance (CHC) by the Health Care Compliance Association.