Wilson Kehoe Winingham hires legal nurse consultant

01-05-2014

Law firm Wilson Kehoe Winingham has hired a second on-staff legal nurse consultant to assist with the firm’s focus on severe, permanent injury cases.

Lauren Anno has been a legal nurse consultant for 18 years. She works as a liaison between the legal and medical communities, brings health science education and clinical expertise to healthcare related issues in the litigation process, and analyzes and evaluates medical/legal issues in medical malpractice cases.

Prior to her present position, Anno worked as a legal nurse consultant at Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman and at Ice Miller. She was a clinical staff nurse at St. Vincent Hospital and Healthcare Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, at Wishard Hospital, and at The Lutheran Hospital of Fort Wayne. She served as a patient care coordinator at Naab Road Surgical Group and worked as a risk management consultant at the Clarian Health Risk Retention Group.

Some of Anno's clinical nursing experience includes working in medical-surgical areas including general surgical, orthopedics and GYN-oncology and in a high-risk antenatal unit.

Anno is a past secretary of the Indianapolis Chapter of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. She is also a past treasurer of the Indiana Society for Healthcare Risk Management and has spoken on numerous occasions at various hospitals, clinics, and physician's offices across Indiana about the principles of risk management within their personal organizations. She is a member of the Indiana State Nurses Association.

Wilson Kehoe Winingham, Lauren Anno, Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman, US