Sandra L Berkowitz, RN, JD most recently was the Practice Leader of global insurance broker Willis’ robust National Managed Care Specialty Practice, retiring in June, 2014.

She graduated with highest honors from University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, where she received her B.S. in Nursing, and from Temple University School of Law, receiving her J.D. She is co-founder of The American Association of Nurse Attorneys and is past president of The American Association of Nurse Attorneys Foundation.

As Director of the East Boston Day Hospital, Ms. Berkowitz first ran into third party payer resistance to reimbursing nursing for their professional services; managed care contracting with nurse-led facilities has been a project of passion ever since. In 2004 she began her consulting relationship with the National Nursing Centers Consortium, and in 2007, together with NNCC, celebrated consummation of the first commercial Primary Care Provider contracts with Nurse Managed Health Centers in Southeast Pennsylvania. Since that achievement Ms Berkowitz has focused on the development of a for-profit multi-state Nurse-Practitioner-friendly primary care network whose mandate is to increase payer contracting opportunities for Nurse Practitioners and primary care choices for health care consumers.