Lydia Wuorinen

Prior to joining the firm, Lydia worked as the GI Program Regulatory Compliance Manager for the University of Chicago Medicine’s Comprehensive Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office, where she oversaw over 100 active clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also worked as a Research Assistant at the American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University. Lydia summered at another major law firm in Philadelphia before first joining Winston’s Chicago office as a summer associate.

During law school, Lydia was an extern with the CDC’s Public Health Law Program (Global Health Center & Office of the Associate Director for Policy). She developed the Legal Preparedness Framework Guide to align emergency management functions with international standards and analyzed public health and emergency management laws across WHO Member States.

At Perelman School of Medicine, Lydia worked as a Research Assistant for the Rare Disease Drug Development Group, where she developed R scripts to analyze Orphanet data on rare genetic disorders.

Lydia has over two years of experience as a Legal Intern with the Healthcare Quality Improvement Platform (HQUIP), working closely with physician-attorneys at Direct Primary Care Frontier. In this role, she researched legal and regulatory challenges impacting medical care delivery to rural and Tribal self-pay, uninsured, and underinsured patients, including issues related to the HITECH Act, HHS OCR enforcement, and patient access to health information.

Most recently, she presented Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 pandemic response to leaders from Tokyo iCDC and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Lydia’s diverse experiences have given her a deep familiarity with, and passion for, supporting medical-legal partnerships.