Audra K. Lazarus, Senior University Counsel for Research and Health Affairs, joined Florida Atlantic University’s Office of the General Counsel in September 2008.  She serves as the University’s attorney for research and health affairs, providing primary legal counsel to the College of Medicine, College of Nursing, Student Health Services and the Division of Research.  Ms. Lazarus received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1996 and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a J.D. with honors from Columbia Law School in 1999, where she was a member of the Business Law Review.  Prior to joining the University, Ms. Lazarus was Assistant General Counsel for the College of Medicine at the University of Miami. Before serving in that role, she was an associate for many years in the New York corporate tax departments of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, and Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett.  Ms. Lazarus is a member of the New York Bar and the Florida Bar, the Florida Bar Association, the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and the American Health Lawyers Association.