Awards

Chris Apgar, CISSP, CCIIO
Founder & CEO, Apgar & Associates

Gwendolyn Lohse
Managing Director, CORE; Deputy Director, CAQH, Washington, DC

Leon Rodriguez, JD
Director, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), US Department of Health and Human Services, Former Chief of Staff and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, US Department of Justice, Washington, DC

Adam Greene, JD, MPH
Partner and Co-chair, Health Information & HIPAA Practice, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Former Senior Health Information Technology and Privacy Specialist, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Denise M. Buenning, MsM
Acting Director, Office of eHealth Standards and Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Jim Schuping
Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), Reston, VA

Howard J. Anderson
Executive Editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Information Security Media Group, Corp., Former Founding Editor, Health Data Management, Former Lead Editor, Healthcare Financial Management, Former Reporter, Modern Healthcare and Hospitals (now H&HN), Princeton, NJ

William R. Braithwaite, MD, PhD
“Doctor HIPAA”, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, eHealth Initiative, Former Senior Advisor on Health Information Policy, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Richard M. Campanelli, Esq.
Director, Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Alan S. Goldberg, JD, LLM
Partner, Goulston & Storrs, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law and Suffolk University Law School, Past President, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC

Peter N. Grant, JD, PhD
Partner and Co chair, Health Law Group, Davis Wright Tremaine, President, Health Care Conference Administrators, LLC, Editorial Board, Health Affairs, Advisory Board, Harvard Health Policy Review, Instructor, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Seattle, WA

Marilou King, Esq.
Senior Attorney and Acting Senior Advisor for Privacy Compliance and Enforcement, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Steven S. Lazarus, Ph.D., FHIMSS
President, Boundary Information Group, and Former Chair, WEDI, Denver, CO

Susan McAndrew, Esq.
Senior Advisor for HIPAA Privacy Policy, Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Deven McGraw, Esq.
Director, Health Privacy Project, Center for Democracy & Technology, Washington, DC

Stanley Nachimson
Office of HIPAA Standards, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

John C. Parmigiani
President, John C. Parmigiani and Associates, LLC, Former Director of Enterprise Standards, HCFA, Ellicott City, MD

Deborah C. Peel, MD
Psychiatrist and Medical Privacy Expert, Founder and Chair, Patient Privacy Rights, and the Coalition for Patient Privacy, #4 of Modern Healthcare magazine’s 100 Most Powerful in Healthcare in 2007, Austin, TX

Linda Sanches
Senior Advisor, HIPAA Privacy Outreach & Training, Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Karen Trudel
Acting Director, Office of HIPAA Standards, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Chair, Consolidated Health Informatics Initiative, Department of Health and Human Services, Baltimore, MD

Kepa Zubeldia, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Claredi, Former Chair AFEHCT Co Chair, WEDI Security Policy Advisory Group, Kaysville, UT