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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) presents “Data Privacy in the Digital Age,” a Symposium featuring Latanya Sweeney as a Keynote Speaker and a slate of presenters who are privacy thought leaders from academia, government, and industry.  Panelists will discuss privacy concerns on topics ranging from internet-connected devices and electronic medical records to big data analytics and blockchain technology. Attached please find a list of panels and panelists.

REMOTE ACCESS:       www.HHS.gov/live

Conference attendees will be drawn from privacy professionals across the Federal government, industry, and academia. Additionally, CIPP-, CIPM-, and CIPT-certified individuals will be eligible to receive up to 6 CPE credits for attending the event.

Seating for the event is limited. The event will be live streamed on www.HHS.gov/live. To register for the “Data Privacy in the Digital Age” Symposium, please email [email protected] with your Name, Institutional Affiliation, Email Address, and preference as to in person or remote attendance (we will try to honor preferences for in person attendance, but cannot guarantee availability).

To obtain further information or request a reasonable accommodation, please email:[email protected].

Panel 1. Contemporary Health Privacy Challenges
Leo Beletsky, JD, MPH; Associate Professor of Law and Health Sciences, School of Law &
Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
Presentation: “From Panacea to Panopticon: Privacy and Prescription Drug Monitoring in the
Age of the Opioid Crisis”
Kate Black, JD; Privacy Officer and Corporate Counsel, 23andMe, Inc.
Zerina Curevac, JD; Associate, Squire Patton Boggs
Presentation: “A Framework for Notice and Choice in Online Consumer Genetics”
Sharona Hoffman, JD, LLM, SJD; Professor of Bioethics; Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law;
Co-Director, Law-Medicine Center; Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Presentation: “The HIPAA Security Rule: Strengths and Vulnerabilities”
Kathryn Montgomery, PhD; Professor and Director of the Communication Studies Division,
School of Communication, American University
Presentation: “Health Wearables: Ensuring Privacy, Security, and Equity in an Emerging
Internet-of-Things Environment”
Panel 2. Privacy, Data Sharing, and Research
Deven McGraw, JD, LLM; Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy, Office for Civil
Rights; Acting Chief Privacy Officer, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Presentation: TBD
Kirsten Ostherr, PhD, MPH; Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English; Director, Medical
Futures Lab; Rice University
Presentation: “Trust and Privacy in the Ecosystems of User-generated Health and Medical Data”
Ameet Sarpatwari, JD, PhD; Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Assistant
Director, Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL)
Presentation: “Data Sharing that Enables Post-approval Drug and Device Research and Protects
Patient Privacy: Best Practice Recommendations”
Alexandra Wood, JD, MPP; Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard
University
Presentation: “Elements of a New Ethical Framework for Big Data Research”

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Panel 3. Privacy Policy and Regulation
Idris Adjerid, PhD, MBA; Assistant Professor of Management, Mendoza College of Business,
University of Notre Dame
Presentation: “The Impact of Privacy Regulation and Technology Incentives: The Case of
Health Information Exchanges”
Jason Chung, JD, MSc; Senior Research Scholar, Sports and Society, NYU School of
Professional Studies.
Presentation: “Biometric Data Privacy Problems in Sports: Why the United States Needs a
National Privacy Regulator”
Lindsay Gladysz Madejski, JD, CIPP/G; Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Presentation: “Privacy and Security Considerations for Evidence Based Policymaking”
Efthimios Parasidis, JD, MBioethics; Associate Professor of Law and Public Health; Faculty
Affiliate, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities; The Ohio State University
Presentation: “Ethical and Legal Dimensions of a Risk-based Rubric for Data Privacy”
Panel 4. From Patient to Participant to Specimen to Data: Privacy Across the
Health Lifecycle

Andrew G. Shuman, MD; Assistant Professor, Division of Head and Neck Oncology,

Department of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, University Michigan Health System; Co-
Director, Program in Clinical Ethics; Chair, Adult Ethics Committee and Consultation Service;

Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School;
Chief, ENT Section, Surgery Service, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
Presentation: Focusing on patient privacy
Kayte Spector‐Bagdady, JD, MBioethics; Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics &
Gynecology; Chief, Research Ethics Service, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in
Medicine; University of Michigan Medical School
Presentation: Dignitary Harms and the Privatization of Data
Nicolle Strand, JD, MBioethics; Assistant Professor, Bioethics; Assistant Director for
Research, Center for Bioethics, Urban Health, and Policy; Lewis Katz School of Medicine at
Temple University
Presentation: Focusing on patient privacy interests in shared data

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Panel 5. Privacy-preserving Tools, Technologies, and Methodologies
Adrian Gropper, MD; Chief Technology Officer, Patient Privacy Rights Foundation
Presentation: “Blockchain-linked Self-sovereign Technology for Information Sharing”
Abel Kho, MD, MS; Associate Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of
Medicine
Presentation: “Pragmatic Real World Applications of Privacy-preserving Record Linkage”
Bradley Malin, PhD; Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, & Computer Science;
Co-Director, Ph.D. Program in Big Biomedical Data Science; Co-Director, Center for Genetic
Privacy and Identity in Community Settings; Co-Director, Health Data Science Center; Director,
Health Information Privacy Laboratory; Vanderbilt University
Presentation: “An Open Source Tool for Game Theoretic Health Data De-identification”