Sharon Caulfield serves Caplan and Earnest as Managing Member and former chair of the Health Law Section. She is AV rated by the Martindale-Hubbell law directory, has been named one of Colorado’s “SuperLawyers” annually since 2006 in the 5280 Magazine peer reviewed processes, and has also been selected annually since 2007 as one of the Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of Health Care Law. Her practice focus is on healthcare organizational compliance, transactions, employment and litigation. A recent publication is “Health Care Facility Ethics Committees: New Issues in the Age of Transparency” ABA Human Rights Magazine, Vol. 34, p.10 (2007).
Ms. Caulfield has served on many community governing boards, including as President of the Alumni Association of the University of Colorado at Boulder and as director of such groups as the University of Colorado Foundation, the Colorado Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, and Frasier Meadows Retirement Community. She was chair of the Colorado Bar Association’s Health Law Section for 1995-1996, has been a member of the American Health Lawyers Association since 1984, and is part of the ABA’s Health Law Section. In 1994-1995 and 1999-2000, Ms. Caulfield served on the Colorado Insurance Commissioner’s task forces on financial and operating standards for provider networks.
Currently, Ms. Caulfield serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Colorado Haiti Project, Inc., as a member and former chair of the Advisory Board for the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities, and on the adjunct faculty of the University of Colorado School of Law, teaching courses in bioethics law. She is a member of the board of the Colorado Association of Homes and Services for the Aging and serves on the National Legal Committee of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. Since 1996, she has served as Vice-Chancellor for the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado. She also served for five years as a Girl Scout leader for teen Scouts.
Ms. Caulfield joined Caplan and Earnest LLC in 1993, after spending over a decade in the practice of health law and litigation at a major Denver law firm. She is married to research geologist and climber Ned Andrews, and together they have two children.