Christopher Gingras Vice President, Compliance

AS A SEASONED COMPLIANCE PROFESSIONAL WITH OVER FIFTEEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE MR GINGRAS MANAGES AND DIRECTS THE COMPLIANCE AND BUSINESS ETHICS PRACTICE FOR MCRA. Mr. Gingras is responsible for assisting clients in identifying opportunities to enhance their overall compliance efforts, thereby reducing business risk, and assuring the effectiveness of the compliance program. MCRA's compliance department helps organizations develop, implement and assess healthcare compliance programs with a particular focus on medical device companies and companies involved in clinical trials.

Prior to joining MCRA Mr. Gingras served as the Chief Compliance Officer at Baystate Health in Springfield, MA and worked as a Manager at Ernst & Young in their Health Advisory Services practice.

Mr. Gingras has extensive experience designing effective compliance programs, identifying regulatory risk areas, writing policies, assessing existing compliance programs, re-engineering business operations in response to regulatory requirements, drafting statements of business ethics and training thousands of employees on compliance.

Mr. Gingras is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executive (FACHE), a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Healthcare Financial Professional in the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA). He is also active with the Healthcare Compliance Association (HCCA) and Chairs the Massachusetts HFMA Compliance Committee.

Mr. Gingras received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire and his Masters in Business Administration from Rice University.

Mr. Gingras was direct commissioned as an officer in the Medical Service Corp and is currently a Captain in the Massachusetts Air National Guard. He also volunteers as a Connecticut Firefighter and Emergency Medical Responder.