Chaton Turner

About Chaton Turner

Chatón is a legal, operations and customer service executive with more than 15 years’ experience of transformational leadership in the healthcare industry. She has depth in strategic planning, customer service, grievance response, human resources, training, internship programs, valuing diversity, compliance, and crisis management. She is a result-driven professional with experience in employment law and healthcare law with a specialty in risk management, reproduction, patient safety and regulatory issues. She has additional experience in ethics, program development, marketing, and mediation. Her employment history demonstrates numerous successes in finding creative solutions to problems. Under her leadership, UPMC has enhanced its litigation avoidance strategy as well as increased the access of services to persons with disabilities.In addition to her full-time work, she served as an adjunct law professor for ten years. She is admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar, the North Carolina Bar and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina.Public Speaker and Writer.Specialties: Risk Management Policy Development Dispute Resolution Health Care Law Employment Law Disabilities Law Contract Negotiation Public Relations Crisis Management Disabilities Law

Experience

1. UPMC

   Present

Education

• University of Virginia

  Bachelor's degree, Economics

• University of Virginia

  BA/BS, Economics, Minor: Spanish

• Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

  Executive Leadership Certificate, Executive Leadership

• University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law

  Doctor of Law - JD

• University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law

  JD, Law

  1996 — 1999

• Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

  Leadership Certificate, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

Skills

• Westlaw
• Blogging
• Civil Litigation
• Arbitration
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Health Law
• Marketing
• Government
• Nonprofits
• Program Development
• Management
• Public Policy
• Administrative Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Conflict Resolution
• Community Outreach
• Courts
• Dispute Resolution
• Family Law
• Marketing Communications
• Health Care Law
• Ethics
• Contract Negotiation
• Legal Research
• Employment Law
• Legal Compliance
• Writing
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Public Relations
• Healthcare
• Corporate Law
• Appeals
• Mediation
• Strategy
• Training
• Corporate Governance
• Fundraising
• Leadership
• Strategic Planning