Denise Atwood

As a former Vice President of Operations at Maricopa Integrated Health System, Denise has extensive experience in the areas of provider relations, risk management, healthcare operations, compliance, and quality. Denise was an adjunct professor for two universities where she taught health care law, ethics, and politics/public policy. She regularly presents ethics and compliance education for the students and residents at A.T. Still University, and she provides ethics education and evaluations for the Arizona State Board of Nursing. Denise is also a published author and speaker on risk, compliance, medical-legal, and ethics issues. She has been Freelance Research Contributor for Aspen Publishers, Inc., a Wolters Kluwer business, since 2000.