Privacy & Compliance Expert Panel Members

Co-chairs:

  • Cassi Birnbaum, RHIA, CPHQ, Director of Health Information/Privacy Officer, Rady Children's Hospital of San Diego

  • Charles Parker, BA/BS, VP, Chief Technology Officer, Masspro (QIO for MA)


Members:

  • Justin Barnes, Vice President of Marketing, Corporate and Government Affairs, Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc.

  • Donald Bechtel, Chief Privacy Officer, HDX Siemens Medical Solutions, USA

  • Theresa Bunsen, RHIA, Chief Privacy Officer, Director Health Information Record Services, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare

  • Angie Burnette, JD, Counsel, Alston & Bird LLP

  • David Buyer, MD, Physician West Loop University Medicine, Ltd.

  • Bonnie Cassidy, MPA, RHIA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, President Cassidy & Associates

  • Michael DeCarlo, JD, Sr. Policy Advisor BCBSA

  • Reed Gelzer MD, MPH, CHCC, Consultant

  • Lori Hack, MBA, Program Manager, California Department of Mental Health, Estrada Consulting

  • Lois Hall BS, RHIT, Health Information Specialist, Department of Veterans Affairs

  • Gerry Hinkley, JD, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

  • Erik Pupo, MBA, Practice Leader, Project Performance Corporation

  • Walter Suarez, MD, MPH, President Institute for HIPAA/HIT Education and Research

  • Bruce Taffel, MD, Vice President, Chief Medical Officer,Shared Health

  • Zebulon Taintor, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, New York University

  • Robert Tennant, MA, Senior Policy Advisor, Health Informatics, Medical Group Management Association

  • Allan Tillinghast, MBA, EVP Operations, Netsmart