John E. Steiner, Jr., Esq., CHC, CCEP, is the Former Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer and Associate General Counsel for Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), based in Schaumburg, Illinois. He is a member of the Executive Team and responsible for the design, implementation and administration of an enterprise compliance program. He is a national speaker on health law and compliance topics. He also is a nationally recognized author and editor of a variety of health care and compliance publications.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Steiner served as the Chief Compliance Officer for UK HealthCare of the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, where he was responsible for the enterprise wide compliance program. Mr. Steiner previously served as the Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer for the Cleveland Clinic Health System, an international referral center and multi-specialty, academic medical center in Cleveland, Ohio, and Florida. He was the first compliance officer in the history of the Cleveland Clinic and designed, implemented and administered the corporate compliance program for the health care system.

Mr. Steiner also was Senior Counsel for the American Hospital Association, where he served as an attorney and advocate for this national trade association and its 5,000 member hospitals. He obtained his BA from the Johns Hopkins University, his Certificate from the Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and his JD, with honors, from Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. He is the Vice Chairman of the American Bar Association Health Law Committee, a former board member of the Health Care Compliance Association and former chairman of the American Medical Group Association’s Council of Compliance Officers.