Faculty Profile: Christian Burbank

Christie Kizer Burbank concentrates her legal practice exclusively in health care regulatory and transactional law matters for a broad range of health care providers. Specifically, Christie has extensive experience in health care contract drafting and negotiations, fraud and abuse analyses, physician self referral issues, HIPAA and privacy issues, subpoenas and other requests for patient records, physician group practice and compensation issues, hospital and physician arrangements, physician recruitment issues, medical staff bylaws and credentialing, joint ventures and management relationships, employment, medical director and specialty services agreements, compliance plan development, licensure, certification and accreditation issues, operational and patient care issues, corporate practice of medicine and fee splitting concepts, walk-in clinics, employee health clinics and wellness programs, clinical research issues, and similar matters.

Christie served as Chair in 2014 of the Tennessee Bar Association's Health Law Section and Executive Council and as a member of the Tennessee Bar Association's Medical-Legal Partnership Working Group in 2014-2015. Christie enjoys serving her local Chattanooga health care community currently as Chairman of the Board of Erlanger Health System Foundations, Board member of the Greater Chattanooga Colon Cancer Foundation, and Ambassador of Siskin Children's Institute.

Christie received her J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 2000 and her B.S. in mathematics from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee in 1994. She is licensed to practice law both in Tennessee and Georgia. Christie is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and served as Student Editor on the Tennessee Law Review. She has been recognized as The Best Lawyers 2016 "Lawyer of the Year" in Health Care Law (as the single lawyer chosen in her specialty in her metropolitan area) and by City Scope magazine in 2014 as a business leader with exceptional leadership skills in their Gold Club for Leadership. She is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association Health Law Section's Executive Council, the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association's Health Law Section, and the Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys, and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Health Care Law since 2012. Prior to attending law school, Christie performed clinical, data, and laboratory research in the medical fields of neonatology and pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.