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Harlin G. Adelman, JD

Harlin Adelman

Harlin G. Adelman, JD

Chief Legal Officer

Bio

Harlin G. Adelman, JD, was elected Chief Legal Officer and Secretary for University Hospitals in March 2019. Prior to becoming Chief Legal Officer, he served as the Vice President & Deputy General Counsel for the UH Law Department, responsible for day-to-day management of the department, including corporate transactional work and claims and litigation.

In his role as Chief Legal Officer, Mr. Adelman leads several departments including Claims & Litigation, Corporate Legal Services, Internal Audit, Insurance & Risk Management and Worker’s Compensation. He also manages the Office of Board Administration overseeing corporate governance for the UH and UH Cleveland Medical Center Boards of Directors, the UH Market Boards and more than 50 subsidiary entities within the UH system. Mr. Adelman also serves as Secretary to and is a Director on the board of UH’s captive insurance company, Western Reserve Assurance Co., LTD., SPC.

Prior to joining UH in 1998, Mr. Adelman was a Senior Consultant with Medimetrix Group, a national healthcare consulting firm based in Cleveland. Prior to that, he was an associate in the healthcare practice group at Benesch law firm. His practice focused on healthcare industry business and operations as well as healthcare regulation, entity acquisition and consolidation, and administrative hearings with various state regulatory boards.

Mr. Adelman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University with majors in biology and psychology and a Juris Doctor from the Boston University School of Law. He is a member of the Ohio and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associations, former trustee of the Cleveland Bar Association’s Health Law Council and a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.

Additionally, Mr. Adelman currently serves as the Chair of the Board of the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and serves as a Director on the boards of the The Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio and the Cleveland Council on World Affairs.

Mr. Adelman is a member of the Leadership Cleveland Class of 2019 and was an inaugural member and graduate of the University Hospitals Leadership Academy. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the Kent State University Executive MBA Program.