Meet Our Team

Mark Pastin has advised major corporations and government bodies worldwide since 1973. His book The Hard Problems of Management; Gaining the Ethics Edge (Jossey-Bass: 1986; NTT Publications-Japan: 1994) has won awards in the United States, Brazil, Australia and Japan. Dr. Pastin has authored over 100 articles and books.

Dr. Pastin has advised corporations including Caterpillar, American Express, Medtronic, NYNEX, Blood Systems, Inc., Motorola, General Electric, Texas Instruments, Intel, Cadbury Schweppes, Allied Signal, J.P. Morgan, and GTE Telops. Dr. Pastin has served as advisor to both Houses of Congress and to state and federal agencies. U.S. agencies served include the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, and the National Science Foundation. Foreign governments and agencies include the European Community, the Federal Government of Brazil, Mexico (President’s Commission on Housing), Australia, Hong Kong (Anti-Corruption Commission), the Republic of China, and the United Kingdom.

Dr. Pastin received his B.A. (summa cum laude) from the University of Pittsburgh and his Ph.D. from Harvard University (Lewis Award). He has served as faculty member and administrator at Indiana University, the University of Michigan, Harvard University, University of Maryland, and Arizona State University. Dr. Pastin has also served as Research Fellow of the Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Pastin serves on several corporate and non-profit boards. He is recognized in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Finance and Industry and Who’s Who in the World.

Dr. Mike Walker serves as Senior Vice President, Risk Management after previously serving as the Chief Audit, Compliance and Ethics Officer for the University of Connecticut (UConn) and the UConn Health Center. His oversight responsibilities at UConn included all aspects of the regulatory environment to include health care delivery, privacy, and research. Mike’s prior assignment was with Wake Forest University where he had similar responsibilities.

Dr. Walker received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a dissertation focused on regulatory stress in academic medicine. Mike also holds masters degrees from Central Michigan University and Appalachian State University. Mike is also a graduate of the Army’s Staff College and is a certified as an Army Inspector General and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). Mike is well know nationally, presenting at numerous conferences and authoring multiple articles focused on the risk assessment/risk management process.

Lynn M. Barrett, Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs, Health Ethics Trust and Compliance Resource Group, Inc., is an experienced healthcare attorney with expertise in matters involving federal and state healthcare laws and regulations. Most recently, Lynn served as General Counsel to one of the largest public health systems in the United States.  Previously, Lynn served as Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer for a large multi-facility academic medical system. Lynn has also held senior positions in various national and regional law firms.  In these in-house and law firm positions, she has worked on a wide array of legal and compliance issues. She is Adjunct Professor for Hofstra Law School’s Online health law program. She holds leadership positions in the American Bar Association Health Law Section and the American Health Lawyers Association. Lynn received her J.D. degree from New York University School of Law in 1991 and her B.S. from Carnegie-Mellon in 1986.

Debra Muscio has decades of experience starting, implementing and maintaining Compliance, Privacy, Information Security, and Internal Audit programs. She has developed, administered, and operated these programs for healthcare entities, including Hospitals, Centers of Excellence, Clinics, Ancillary Services, SNFs, Providers, Health Plans, MSOs, and IPAs.

Debra’s analytical approach, critical thinking, and business acumen ensure objective analysis of information to produce actionable insights. She served 10 1/2 years as the SVP /Chief Audit, ERM, Privacy, Information Security Ethics, and Compliance Officer for Community Health Systems in Fresno, California, 16 years at the Central Connecticut Health Alliance as Chief Audit and Compliance Officer and 6 years at Hartford Healthcare as Senior Auditor and Interim Director.

Debra has an MBA degree and professional certifications including Certified Compliance Executive (CCE), Certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC), Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and Certified Healthcare Internal Audit Professional (CHIAP). She is a Fellow of the American College of the Health Ethics Trust. She is active in leadership roles in professional organizations including the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors (AHIA), Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA), Health Ethics Trust (HET), and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

Debra has been the recipient of Audit and Compliance Best Practices awards. She was featured in the American Healthcare Leaders January 2018 publication “What You Know Can’t Hurt You” and the July 2019 cover of Compliance Today.