Keryma Marra
	kmarra@dhimesmarra-law.com Tel: +809 732-2035• telefax: +809 732-2062 / 809 732-2066 GMT (-4:00) Av. 27 de febrero, #329, Torre Elite, Piso 5, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. International Address: CPS No. 1866, P.O. Box 14 9020 Coral Gables, Florida 33 114-9020.

Education: Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), Dominican Republic (Doctor of Law, Summa Cum Laude, 1993). Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) (Master in Enterprise Law and Economic Legislation, 1998).

Author: “Violation of the Labor Rights in the Dominican Republic Free Zones”, “Civil Liability of the Employer”, 1998; “The General Bill of Health Modified and Adequate to the Postulates of the Reform”, 1999; “Comparative Analysis of the Environmental Law and the General Law of Health”, 2000; “The Process of Approval of the Health Care General Law: Manipulation or Consensus”.

Under License since 1998, acted as Legal Counsel in the Reform of the Dominican Health System; Former Legal Counsel of the Executive Commission for the Reform of the Health Sector (CERSS); Former Legal Counsel in the process of revision, concertation and adequacy of the project of the Health Care General Law (Law 42-01); Former Legal Counsel in the process of revision, analysis and concertation of the Bill that created the Dominican System of Social Security (Law 87-01); Responsible of designing and elaborating the proposals of judicial instruments tending to establish an experimental environment of decentralization in the areas of implementation of the projects to reform the health sector; supporting the process of definition of the policies and legal framework of the auto-nomination and development of the public network of hospitals, as well as coordinating the process of regulation for the Health Care General Law. Ms. Marra, had been Director of the Pension and Retirement Division of the Finance Secretariat creating and implementing the new structure imposed by the Social Security Law approved on May 2001; Legal Director ad-Interim of the Finance Secretariat; Member of the National Health Insurance (SNS) in representation of the Secretary of State for Finance; Member of the Inter-institutional Committee for Pensions in representation of the Finance Secretariat; Coordinator for the Executive Secretary of the National Counsel of Health (CNS); as well as Legal External Consultant of the Executive Commission for the Reform of the Health Sector (CERSS). Today, she is in charge of functions related to the Banking and Financial Legislation. Lecturer of Speeches and Conferences in matter of Social Security and Health Care Law.

Languages: Spanish and English.

Practice Areas: Corporate Law and Economic Legislation; Health Care Law; Social Security Law; Administrative and Constitutional Law.