Heather Deixler

Associate

Heather B. Deixler is an associate in Morgan Lewis's FDA and Healthcare Practice. Ms. Deixler focuses her practice on healthcare regulatory compliance and corporate transactions. She counsels healthcare providers in areas such as physician self-referral (i.e., the federal Stark Law and its state law counterparts), HIPAA and privacy law issues, regulatory compliance, and fraud and abuse. Ms. Deixler also assists clients in healthcare-related business transactions, litigation, and antitrust claims and investigations.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Deixler was an associate in the healthcare group of an international law firm. Ms. Deixler also served as an adjunct professor in the Health Law LL.M. program at the University of Washington School of Law.

Ms. Deixler earned her J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law in 2007, where she was the recipient of the FLAS Academic Year Fellowship. Ms. Deixler also served as president of the Student Health Law Organization and was a teaching fellow for the basic legal skills first-year writing course. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Deixler worked as a research technician in a neurophysiology laboratory in Dijon, France and as a clinical research assistant at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Ms. Deixler earned her M.Phil. in physiology from the University of Cambridge in 2000 and her B.A., with honors, in biological basis of behavior from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She is fluent in French.

Ms. Deixler is admitted to practice in Washington only.