About the Program: Ethical Decision Making for Contracting Professionals

Recorded Webinar

About the Program: Ethical Decision Making for Contracting Professionals

Course Highlights:

What are some of the ethical challenges facing Contracting Professionals and how can they be addressed? Using examples and interactive discussion, this session will look at some of the unique situations Contracting Professionals can find themselves facing and how to use the Ethical Decision making model to work through them.

Course Highlights:

· What is the Ethical Decision Making Model?

· What is the order of priority in making ethical decisions; whose ethics come first?

· Is legal the same as ethical; what about perception?

· Am I in this alone?

Meet Your Instructors:

Bob Borntrager, CCEP, CCEP-I, CHC, CHPC

Bob is Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer and Federal Title VI Coordinator for the County of San Diego. As Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer and Title VI Coordinator, Bob is responsible for ensuring the County complies with applicable laws, rules and regulations related to federal and State funding, patient and customer privacy, and non-discrimination requirements for federal funding. Bob currently holds the credentials Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP), Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional- International (CCEP-I), Certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC), and Certified in Healthcare Privacy Compliance (CHPC) from the Compliance Certification Board.

His professional affiliations include the Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA), the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the California Health Information Association (CHIA) and the Southern California Counties Compliance Officers Professional Exchange (SC3OPE).

In addition to his County responsibilities, Bob teaches a course on ethics and compliance in contracting at San Diego State University and is a frequent workshop presenter on the topics of ethics, compliance, and privacy as they apply to contracts and to the public sector.

Jennifer Baillie

Jennifer is the Chief Ethics Officer with the Office of Ethics and Compliance (OEC) for the County of San Diego. She has been with OEC for 6 years and was previously a HR Analyst in the Employee Development division of Human Resources with the County of San Diego. Jennifer assists with developing and implementing the County’s ethics program and conducts investigations into employee concerns and formal complaints filed with OEC, the County’s Civil Service Commission and other governmental agencies.

Jennifer has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from San Diego State University and a MA in Psychology from National University. She is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE), Ethics and Compliance Initiative (ECI) and Associated Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).