Paula Holbrook

Paula Holbrook is the Associate Director of Risk Management and Senior Associate General Counsel at UK HealthCare, while also serving as an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Kentucky's J. David Rosenberg College of Law since 2009. She provides legal guidance on clinical risk management, patient safety, legal liability, healthcare surrogate decision-making, and responses to agency inquiries, subpoenas, and warrants.

Her educational background includes a Nursing Diploma from Fort Sanders School of Nursing, a BHS and Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky. Her expertise spans healthcare law, regulatory compliance, and patient safety, with prior roles as Assistant Attorney General and Assistant Counsel in Kentucky's Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

In 2020, she was inducted into the College of Health Sciences Alumni Hall of Fame. She actively participates in professional organizations such as the Kentucky and American Societies for Healthcare Risk Management and the American Health Lawyers Association.