Chris
Apgar, CISSP.
Mr. Apgar is President of Apgar &
Associates, LLC. He serves as a member
of the Workgroup for Electronic Data
Interchange Board of Directors and as a
member of the HHS-funded health
information exchange initiative, Health
Information Security and Privacy
Collaborative to develop national
privacy & security solutions in
electronic health information exchange
within and between states. Prior to
establishing his consultancy, Mr. Apgar
worked as a HIPAA Compliance officer for
Providence Health Plans in Oregon and SW
Washington.
Dr. Bruce Beckwith, MD
Dr. Beckwith is a pathologist and
lecturer at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center and Harvard Medical
School. He and his team developed open
source de-identification software that
has generated substantial interest in
the research community.
Lesley Berkeyheiser
Ms. Berkeyhiser is Security and Privacy
Co-Chair for the Workgroup for
Electronic Data Interchange Strategic
National Implementation Process (WEDI
SNIP) and a national authority on HIPAA
privacy and security issues. She is also
founder of The Clayton Group and partner
of N-Tegrity Solutions Group, both HIPAA
and healthcare management consulting
companies.
Christopher Berner, Esq.
Mr. Berner is Labor and Employment
Counsel for Montefiore Medical Center in
the Bronx, which has more than 12,000
physicians and associates. Prior to
that, Mr. Berner worked as a labor
relations manager and a trial attorney
representing individual employees and
unions.
Scott Bolte
Mr. Bolte was Product Security Program
Manager, GE Healthcare, and a member of
HIMSS Medical Device Security Workgroup
as well as the, NEMA Security & Privacy
Committee, and NEMA’s VA/DoD Task Force.
John R. Christiansen, J.D.
Mr. Christiansen is Managing Director of
Christiansen IT Law and served as
Co-Chair of the American Bar
Association's Committees on Healthcare
Privacy, Security and Information
Technology and Healthcare Informatics.
He also serves as a member of the
Technical Advisory Panel for the Health
Information Security and Privacy
Collaboration.
Steven Grimes, FACCE
Mr. Grimes was Chair of American College
of Clinical Engineering HIPAA Task Force
and a senior consultant for Strategic
Health Care Technology Associates and a
member of HIMSS Medical Device Security
Workgroup.
James Jacobsen, JD
Mr. Jacobsen chairs Holland Knight's
Managed Care Practice. Mr. Jacobson
practice includes helping healthcare
organizations comply with HIPAA, FERPA,
ERISA and Medicare and Medicaid
compliance issues. He has served as
inside or special counsel to numerous
healthcare industry associations,
including NCQA, URAC, APA, AMA, AHA,
AHIP and DMAA
Jeff Jonas
Mr. Jonas is chief scientist of IBM’s
Entity Analytic Solutions group and an
IBM Distinguished Engineer. In these
capacities, he is responsible for
shaping the overall technical strategy
of next generation identity analytics
and the use of this new capability in
the overall IBM technology strategy.
Paul G. Lannon, Jr., JD.
Mr. Lannon is a partner in Holland &
Knight. He also serves as the outside
general counsel for several private
colleges and secondary schools in New
England. In addition, Mr. Lannon devotes
a large part of his practice to advising
private educational institutions on a
broad range of matters, including FERPA
and privacy issues as well as campus
security and student discipline
Richard Meeks
Mr. Meeks is the University of
Washington's HIPAA Compliance Officer
where he also manages the HIPAA Program
Office for the university's medical
centers. His prior experience includes
11 years in Health Information
Management where he held positions at
both the University of Washington
Medical Center and Harborview Medical
Center. His organization assisted in the
investigation of the first national
HIPAA criminal case.
Stanley
Nachimson
Until his retirement in April 2007, Mr.
Nachimson was CMS's Senior Technical
Advisor for HIPAA, where he led the
development of HIPAA Security and
Transaction Standard regulations and
interpretations. He formed Nachimson
Advisors, LLC to continue his work
assisting the industry in adopting and
effectively using healthcare technology
to improve clinical and business
outcomes.
Barry
Nadell
Mr. Nadell is President of InfoLink
Screening Services, a national provider
of employment background checks. He is a
founding member and on the board of
directors of the National Association of
Professional Background Screeners and
the Association of Consumer Reporting
Agencies. He assisted the California
Legislature in amending legislation
affecting how employers can protect
consumers from identity theft while
protecting themselves when requesting
pre-employment background checks. Mr.
Nadell also is an associate member of
the American, California State and Los
Angeles Bar Associations specializing in
labor and employment issues.
John
Parmigiani
Mr. Parmigani is President of John C.
Parmigiani & Associates, LLC. The former
Director of Enterprise Standards for
CMS, Mr. Parmigiani was the chairman of
the government-wide HIPAA Administrative
Simplification Security and Electronic
Signature Standards Implementation Team
that created the Security Rule and was a
member of the federal committee that
oversaw the development and
implementation of the HIPAA Transactions
and Code Sets and the Privacy Rule.
Prof. Mark Rothstein, JD
Prof. Rothstein served as Chair of the
Subcommittee on Privacy and
Confidentiality of the National
Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
from 1999 to 2008. He holds the Herbert
F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and
is Director of the Institute for
Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the
University of Louisville School of
Medicine. Prof. Rothstein has
concentrated his research on genetics,
health privacy, occupational health,
public health law, and employment law.
He is a former president of the American
Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
Gail Sausser, JD
Ms. Sausser specializes in medical
identity theft and HIPAA issues. From
2002 through 2006, she served as a staff
attorney at Virginia Mason Medical
Center. She served as the Chair of the
HIPAA Workgroup for the Healthcare
Financial Management Association from
2000-2003 and has authored many books
and articles on all aspects of the HIPAA
Administrative Simplification
provisions.
Prof. Sonia Suter, JD
Prof. Suter has been a law professor in
the George Washington University Law
School since 1999 after holding a
Greenwall Fellowship in bioethics and
health policy at Georgetown and Johns
Hopkins Universities. Prior to attending
law school, she earned a masters degree
and achieved Ph.D. candidacy in human
genetics. She then worked as a genetic
counselor for two years. Her scholarship
focuses on legal issues in medicine and
genetics as well as bioethics
Peter Swire, JD
Prof. Swire served as the Clinton
Administration's Chief Counselor for
Privacy and now is the C. William
O'Neill Professor of Law, Moritz College
of Law, the Ohio State University. In
his position as chief counselor, he
coordinated Administration policy on the
use of personal information in the
public and private sectors, and served
as point of contact with privacy and
data protection officials in other
countries. He was White House
coordinator for the proposed and final
HIPAA medical privacy rules and played a
leading role on topics including
financial privacy, Internet privacy,
encryption, public records and privacy,
ecommerce policy, and computer security
and privacy.
Steven Yale Winnick, JD.
Mr. Winnick was Senior Counsel with
Holland & Knight, with a education
policy. He focuses on issues related to
FERPA, the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act and the No Child Left
Behind Act. Prior to entering private
practice, Mr. Winnick served as Deputy
General Counsel and the Designated
Agency Ethics Official of the U.S.
Department of Education.
Peter Winn, JD
Since 1994, Mr. Winn has served as an
Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S.
Department of Justice. He is the Civil
Health Care Fraud Coordinator at the
U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle, Wash.
He was responsible for designing the
legal theory underlying the Justice
Department's prosecutions of violations
of the health privacy provisions of
HIPAA. |