This is Sarah’s History at a Glance... Mouse over the different blocks to see various information about her and a variety of her achievements.
Sarah supports the young couple nursing at Parkland Hospital
Michael starts Medical School in Dallas [Southwestern]
Married to Michael Scott Fontenot
Sarah becomes the Staff Development Coordinator for the post-partum, high-risk pregnancy and gynecologic oncology units, Parkland Hospital
Sarah leaves Parkland to become a medical-legal assistant at Cowles & Thompson, Dallas
Sarah and her family move to New Haven
Michael is admitted to Pediatric Residency at Yale
Birth of first son: Gordon Ridley Fontenot
Sarah has a winning personal score in the UCONN Law School Moot Court Competition
Sarah becomes legal research assistant for research for, Angela R. Holder, LLM [Counsel, Yale New Haven Hospital and Faculty, Yale School of Medicine]
Birth of second son: Andrew Derouen Fontenot
Associate Attorney, Carmody & Torrance, Waterbury, Connecticut
Admitted to the Connecticut Bar
Graduates from UCONN School of Law
Starts teaching at Yale School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Established practice consulting with health care providers
Admitted to the Texas Bar
First seminar taught for Texas Medical Association
Starts teaching at Trinity University
Launch of Residents Program through SMA, Your Place in Today's Medicine
Became faculty for TMLT, offering educational programs to members throughout Texas
Voted "Most Outstanding Professor" by the graduate students, Department of Health Care Administration, Trinity University
First time asked to speak at for the American Academy of Medical Administrators (AAMA)
Traveled throughout Texas teaching all day course on HIPAA for Texas Medical Association
First time speaking at a PAHCOM national conference
Recorded first Health Law Component for Physician Business program at Auburn University
Traveled throughout Texas teaching all day course on HIPAA for Texas Medical Association
Recorded another audio program for Texas Medical Association
Traveled throughout Texas teaching all day course on HIPAA for Texas Medical Association
First course taught for the Arkansas Medical Society
Traveled throughout Texas teaching all day Medical Record Series for Texas Medical Association
Traveled throughout Texas teaching all day Medical Record Series for Texas Medical Association
Speaker at SMA Conference on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Traveled throughout Texas teaching all day Medical Record Series for Texas Medical Association
Authors chapter on Health Law for ACHE publication Practicing Medicine in the 21st Century
Key Note Speaker, Women in Law and Medicine for the Cure
Traveled throughout Texas teaching all day Medical Record Series for Texas Medical Association
Begins teaching for ACPE
Participates in year long program Leadership Texas through the Foundation for Women's Resources
Traveled throughout Texas teaching all day Medical Record Series for Texas Medical Association
Begins serving as Faculty for the ACHE Board of Governors Review Course
Accepted into the National Speakers Organization
Key Note Speaker, Women in Law and Medicine for the Cure
Speaker at AHA Annual Membership Meeting, Washington, DC
Authors the TMA Policy and Procedure, 3rd ed [publication pending].
Baylor College of Medicine, Grand Rounds, Department of Ophthalmology
Traveled throughout Texas teaching all day Medical Record Series for Texas Medical Association
First appearance speaking at SMA conference Focus on the Female Patient in Kiawah
Designs and begins ACHE six week on-line course in Health Law
Sarah Fontenot brings clarity to health law by combining her education and experience as a lawyer and a nurse into an engaging, powerful and sought after educator.
Since 1997, Ms. Fontenot has been an Adjunct Professor teaching health law to graduate students in the department of Healthcare Administration at Trinity University, where she has been elected "Most Outstanding Professor" by Trinity Executive MHA students.
Prior academic positions include teaching hospital law and public health law in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine (1992 – 1994), and conducting the health law component of the Certificate in Business Administration for Physicians program jointly sponsored by Auburn University and the Southern Medical Society (2001 – 2008). For nine years, she served as a guest faculty member at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine (1991 – 2002), and most recently she served as guest faculty for Grand Rounds at Baylor Medical School and the University of Texas at Medical School (Houston), Departments of Ophthalmology (2009).
Ms. Fontenot teaches extensively for Texas Medical Association, Texas Medical Liability Trust Southern Medical Association, Arkansas Medical Society, and the American College of Physician Executives. She has served as faculty for many other national provider groups, including the Physician Insurers Association of America, the Medical Group Management Association, and at the American Hospital Association’s Annual Membership Meeting (2008). Ms. Fontenot became a faculty member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) in 2007, and teaches both the Health Law and Ethics portions of the Board of Governor’s Examination Review Course, as well as ACHE’s six week on-line health law program.
Ms. Fontenot graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law (1990), where she was a winner of the annual Moot Court Contest. After law school she was an associate at a law firm in central Connecticut specializing in hospital law and medical malpractice defense (1990 – 1992).
After graduating from the University of Vermont School of Nursing (1978), Ms. Fontenot was a staff nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital (1978 – 1980) and Parkland Memorial Hospital (1980 – 1984).