TAMPA, FL – The law firm of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, is pleased to announce that the Southwest Florida American Diabetes Association received the Stop Diabetes^® GIVE Financial Performance Award for the area’s efforts in the categories of Top Net Income Margin and Net Income Goal for their performance as a market.  The Stop Diabetes^® GIVE Financial Performance Award honors significant and ongoing commitment to raise funds to support the mission of the American Diabetes Association.  Partner Erin Smith Aebel is Chair of the Tampa Bay Leadership Board of the American Diabetes Association and has served as Walk Chair for the past three years.

Erin is a partner in the Tampa office and Co-Chair of the Tampa Health Law Department, and certified as a health law specialist by The Florida Bar.  Her clients include physicians, physician group practices, diagnostic imaging centers, pharmacies, clinical laboratories and medical spas.  She regularly advises clients on Stark and fraud and abuse, HIPAA and licensure issues arising from joint ventures, acquisitions and changes of ownership.  Erin regularly prepares and negotiates physician employment agreements, physician recruitment agreements and medical director agreements.  She is frequently involved in licensure and scope of practice issues for her clients, including weight loss clinics, medical spas and other aesthetic medicine ventures.  Erin received her J.D., cum laude, from Loyola University and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Loyola University.                                                        

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Founded in 1925, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP is a full service business law firm with more than 230 attorneys practicing in Toledo and Columbus, Ohio; Tampa and Sarasota, Florida; and Charlotte, North Carolina.