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CMS, HHS, OCR and OIG Keynote Virtual HIPAA Summit 43; Tuition Scholarships Available for Health Service Researchers

CMS, HHS, OCR and OIG Keynote Virtual HIPAA Summit 43; Tuition Scholarships Available for Health Service Researchers

- Virtual Online Video Live and Archived
- The Leading Forum on Healthcare EDI, Privacy, Breach Notification, Confidentiality, Data Security and HIPAA Compliance
- Featuring Extensive Virtual HIPAA Workforce Training
- Celebrating the 43rd HIPAA Summit, including 35 HIPAA Summits, 6 HIPAA Summits West and 2 HIPAA Summit Symposia at Harvard University
- Media Partners: HIPAA Journal, Harvard Health Policy Review, Health Affairs and Inside Health Policy
- www.HIPAASummit.com ([link removed] )
- Held:
- March 11, 2026: AI Cyber Risk Professional (aiCRP) Training and Professional Certification Exam
- March 18, 2026: HIPAA Workforce Basic Privacy Training
- March 25, 2026: HIPAA Workforce Basic Security/Breach Training
- April 1, 2026: HIPAA Summit Workforce Training: HIPAA Transactions, Operating Rules, and Critical Healthcare Data Exchange Issues
- April 7-10, 2026: HIPAA Summit 43

PRESS RELEASE

Phone: 800-503-7417

Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Website: www.HIPAASummit.com ([link removed] )

TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS

The HIPAA Summit is now offering a limited number of partial and full Tuition Scholarships to qualifying representatives of local, state and federal government, consumer advocate organizations, safety net providers, academics, students, and representatives of health services research organizations.

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EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION

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HIPAA SUMMIT AGENDA

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INDIVIDUAL/SMALL GROUP REGISTRATION

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WASHINGTON DC USA -- JANUARY 14, 2026: The Virtual Forty-Third National HIPAA Summit, www.HIPAASummit.com ([link removed] ) , will be held as a fully virtual event on April 7-10, 2026 with prior professional certification and HIPAA workforce training sessions and available via video archive for attendee for 12 months thereafter.

GOVERNMENT KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Michael Cimmino, MPH

Director, National Standards Group, Office of Healthcare Experience and Interoperability, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Washington, DC

Nicholas Heesters, MEng, JD, CIPP

Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Health and Human Services; Former VP, Technology Infrastructure, JP Morgan Chase, Philadelphia, PA

Thomas Keane, MD, MBA

Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and National Coordinator of Health IT, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Brian M. Mazanec, PhD

Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director, Office of Preparedness, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Paula M. Stannard, JD

Director, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Health & Human Services; Former Senior Counselor to the Secretary and Deputy General Counsel, HHS, Washington, DC

Scott P. Stiefel, JD, LLM

Counsel, Affirmative Litigation Branch, Office to Counsel of the Inspector General, Office of Inspector General, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

OTHER KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Gregory T. Garcia

Executive Director, Cybersecurity Working Group, Health Sector Coordinating Council; Former Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity, US Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC

Samantha Jacques, PhD, FACHE, AAMIF

Vice President, Clinical Engineering, McLaren Health Care; Vice Chair Health Sector Coordinating Council, Cybersecurity, Detroit, MI

Deven McGraw, JD, MPH

Chief Regulatory & Privacy Officer, Citizen Health; Cofounder & Lead, Data Stewardship & Data Sharing, Invitae; Former Deputy Director, Health Information Privacy, HHS OCR; Former Director, Health Privacy Project, Center for Democracy & Technology, Redwood City, CA

Jules Polonetsky, JD

Chief Executive Officer, Future of Privacy Forum; Former Chief Privacy Officer, SVP Consumer Advocacy, AOL; Former Chief Privacy Officer, DoubleClick; Former Commissioner, New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection; Former Member, New York State, Potomac, MD

Lauren Riplinger, JD

VP, Policy and Government Affairs, American Health Information Management Association; Former Chief of Staff/Senior Policy Advisor, House Budget Committee. House Science Committee & House Armed Services Committee, US House of Representatives, Washington, DC

Daniel J. Solove, JD

John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; Founder, TeachPrivacy; Author, The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age, Washington, DC

Chris Tyberg

Chief Information Security Officer, Abbott; Chair, Cybersecurity Working Group, Health Sector Coordinating Council; Former VP IT, CISO, St. Jude Medical, St Paul, MN

FEATURED FACULTY

Dave Bailey, MBA

Vice President, Security Consulting Services, Clearwater; Former Director of Technology and Security, Mary Washington Healthcare, Castle Rock, CO

Dixie B. Baker, PhD, MS, MS, FHIMSS

Senior Partner, Martin, Blanck & Associates; Co-chair, Security Working Group, Global Alliance for Genomics & Health; Advisory Council, HL7, Los Angeles, CA

Allison J. Becker, JD

Partner, Co-Chair of the National Healthcare Practice Group and Co-Chair of the Correctional Healthcare Group, Gordan Rees Scully Mansukhani, Raleigh, NC

Lesley Berkeyheiser, CCSFP, CHQP

Senior Director, Accreditation & Development, Direct Trust; Co-Chair, WEDI Privacy & Security Workgroup, Glen Mills, PA

David Blechman, MIS

Head of Operations, Thrive Health Tech/Thrive Mobile; Former Head of Operations, Asurion Health, Nashville, TN

Peggy Bodin, JD, MSW

Vice President, Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Privacy Counsel, HCA; Former Global Privacy Officer, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Pittsburgh, PA

Matthew Bourgeois, JD

Senior Legal Officer and Executive Director of Privacy, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Michael Bray CISM, CRISC, CISSP, QTE

Chief Information Security Officer, The Vancouver Clinic, Vancouver, WA

Tyler Bridegan, JD, CIPP/US, CIPM

Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson; Former Director, Privacy, Texas Attorney General; Former Attorney Advisor, US FTC, Houston, TX

Vanessa K. Burrows, MA, JD

Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP; Former HIPAA Privacy Officer, Department of Public Health, City of Chicago, Washington, DC

Mary Devlin Capizzi, JD, MBA

Partner, Faegre Drinker; General Counsel, International Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Privacy Consortium, Washington, DC

Chris Carlson, JD, CIPM, CIPP/US, CIPP/E

Associate General Counsel and Privacy Officer, Aledade; Former Senior Privacy Counsel, Change Healthcare, Chicago, IL

Ashley Casovan

Managing Director, AI Governance Center, International Association of Privacy Professionals; Former Executive Director, Responsible AI Institute, Edmonton, Canada

Fred H. Cate, JD

ED, Information Accountability Foundation; Co-founder, Red Barn Strategy; Distinguished Professor, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Stan Crosley, JD, CIPP/US

Founder & Managing Partner, Crosley Law; Former CPO, Eli Lilly; Co-founder & Former Chair, International Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Privacy Consortium, Fishers, IN

Terrence Cunningham, JD

Director, Administrative Simplification Policy, American Hospital Association, Chicago, IL

Auburn Daily, JD

California Region VP & General Counsel, CommonSpirit Health; Former Principal Counsel, Health Law and Medical Center Services, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Jodi Daniel, JD, MPH

Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Former Adjunct Professor, Yale School of Medicine; Former Sr Counsel for Health IT, HHS, Washington, DC

SPECIAL EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DISCOUNT

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HIPAA SUMMIMT AGENDA

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43RD HIPAA SUMMIT

Celebrating the 43rd HIPAA Summit, including 35 HIPAA Summits, 6 HIPAA Summits West and 2 HIPAA Summit Symposia at Harvard University.

INDIVIDUAL/SMALL GROUP REGISTRATION

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CO CHAIRS

Erik Decker, MS

Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Intermountain Healthcare; Former Chair, Cybersecurity Working, Chicago, IL

Adam Greene, JD, MPH

Partner and Co-chair, Health Information & HIPAA Practice, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, HIPAA Summit Distinguished Service Award Winner, Former Senior Health Information Technology and Privacy Specialist, Office for Civil Rights, HHS, Washington, DC

Kirk J. Nahra, JD

Partner and Co-chair of the Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice, Wilmer Hale, Adjunct Professor, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC

Iliana Peters, JD, LLM

Shareholder, Polsinelli, Former Acting Deputy Director, Health Information Privacy, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Nancy W. Spector, BSN, MSc

Senior Director of Federal Affairs, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI); Former Coding and HIT Advocacy Director, American Medical Association, Harrisburg, PA

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MEDIA PARTNERS

Beth Davis, PMP

Senior Manager of Operations, Veradigm Payerpath; Former Platinum Support Consultant, Payerpath, Allscripts, Columbia, SC

Donald DePass, JD

Counsel, Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity, Hogan Lovells, Washington, DC

Lori Dutcher, JD

Chief Compliance Officer, Beth Israel Lahey Healthcare; Former Senior Vice President Compliance and Internal Audit, City of Hope; Former Vice President Corporate Compliance, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Cambridge, MA

Robyn Eckerling, JD

Chief Privacy Officer, Tempus AI; Former Vice President, Chief Privacy and Security Counsel, Allscripts; Former Privacy Counsel, Aon, Chicago, IL

Leo Espindle, MS, MBA

Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer, League; Former Principal Quality Engineer, Amgen, Providence, NH

Jay Ettinger, JD

Associate, Litigation, Hogan Lovells, Minneapolis, MN

Janine S. Fadul, CHC, CHPC

Executive Director, Compliance and Privacy, George Washington Medical Faculty Associates; Former Director of Compliance, East River Medical Imaging, Washington, DC

Ammon R. Fillmore, JD, MHA

Associate Chief Legal Officer: Information & Technology, AdventHealth, Altamonte Springs, FL

Mark J. Fox, CHC ,CHPC, CHRC

Privacy and Research Compliance Officer, American College of Cardiology, Washington, DC

Tabitha Gaffney, MA, CHC, CHPC, CHPE

Privacy Officer, VIP Community Services; Former SVP of Compliance and Privacy Office, The Bridge, New York, NY

Stacey Goldston, JD, CIPP/US

Vice President, Northwell Health, New York, NY

Milada Goturi, JD

Partner, Health Law, Data Privacy and Security, Thompson Coburn LLP, Washington, DC

Tina Grande, MHS

Founding President and Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Trust Institute; Board, Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine; Co-Chair, Friends of HL7, Arlington, VA

Kim Gray, JD

Vice President & Associate General Counsel and Global Chief Privacy Officer, IQVIA; Former CPO, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Plymouth Meeting, PA

Carter Groome, MBA, NACD.DC, CDH-E

Chief Executive Officer, First Health Advisory, Washington, DC

Charles Hale, CISM, PMP, PMI-ACP

President & Founder, Hale Consulting Solutions LLC; Former Strategic Advisor, Cybersecurity Compliance, Vital eCare, Las Vegas, NV

Marcy Hammond, CHC, CPHRM, CHEP, CPHQ, RHIT

Privacy Officer and Director of Risk Management and Compliance, Premier Community HealthCare; Co-Chair Pasco County Health and Medical Preparedness Coalition, Dade City, FL

Shannon Britton Hartsfield, JD

Partner, Holland & Knight LLP; Co-author, HIPAA: A Practical Guide to the Privacy and Security of Health Data, Tallahassee, FL

John Haskell, JD, CIPP/US, CIPT

Privacy Consultant; Former HIPAA Privacy Officer, Medline Industries; Former Investigator, HHS Office for Civil Rights, Topsham, ME

Blake Hay, JD

Privacy Officer, Wisconsin Dept of Health Services; Former Director of Quality & Compliance, Family Health La Clinica, Sun Prairie, WI

Betsy F. Hodge, JD

Partner, Healthcare Practice Group, Akerman LLP, West Palm Beach, FL

David Holtzman, JD

Retired Founder, HITprivacy; Fmr Sr HIT & Privacy Specialist, HHS OCR; Fmr Privacy Officer, Mid-Atlantic, Kaiser Permanente, Germantown, MD

Scott K. Intner, JD, CHC, CHPC

Compliance Consultant, The Intner Group; Former Chief Compliance Officer, George Washington Medical Faculty Associates, Washington, DC

Brian Janssen, JD

Chief Information Officer, Medicare, WPS, a Health Solutions Company; Former Operations Performance & Quality Improvement, Dean Health Plan, Inc., Madison, WI

Thora A. Johnson, JD

Partner and Co-chair, Life Sciences Group, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Washington, DC

Candice Kendall, MPA, CCEP, CIPP/US

Director, Corporate Compliance, Privacy and ESG, InvoiceCloud; Fmr Director, Compliance & Privacy, EngageSmart, New York, NY

Alka Kumar, FACMPE, CHC, CHPC

Vice President, Healthcare Leaders Association of Virginia; Former Compliance Director & Privacy Officer, Resolve Pain Solutions, Herndon, VA

Ashley Le Fleur

Vice President and Privacy Officer, ROOT3 Marketing and Business Development, Chicago, IL

Natalie S. Lesnick, JD, CHC, CHPC

Health Care Compliance Counsel, Feldesman; Former Corporate Compliance Team, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., Arlington, VA

Elizabeth G. Litten, JD

Partner, Chief Privacy and HIPAA Compliance Officer and Co-chair, Privacy and Data Security Practice Group, Fox Rothschild LLP, Princeton, NJ

Michael J. Madderra, JD, CIPP/US

Associate, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; Co-author, HHS Proposes Major 2025 Update to HIPAA Security Rule, Seattle, WA

David Manek, CPA, CIPP/E, CIPM, AIGP

Senior Managing Director, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy & AI Regulatory Compliance, Ankura, Chicago, IL

Shawn E. Marchese, CHC

Senior Vice President, Compliance & Privacy Officer, Access TeleCare; Former Chief Compliance Officer, Evergreen Nephrology, Austin, TX

Jackie Mattingly, PhD, CHPS, HCISPP, CHISL, CISSP

Senior Director, Consulting Services, Clearwater; Former Director of Information Security, Optum, Owensboro, KY

Heather McComas, PharmD

Director, Administrative Simplification Initiatives, AMA, Former Professional Affairs Manager, National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, Chicago, IL

George Merix, MHA

Privacy Manager, Carilion Clinic, Salem, VA

Dawn Morgenstern, MBA, CHPC, CCSFP

Chief Privacy Officer and Senior Director of Consulting Services, Privacy and Compliance, Clearwater, Washington, DC

Shawnta Mosley-App, JD, LLM

Associate General Counsel, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA

Demi-lee Mpati, MBA, LLM

Associate Consultant, Strategic Management Services; Former Compliance, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC

Aparna Nandula, MS

Chief Information Officer , Delta Health Alliance; Former Systems Analyst, Baxter Healthcare, Leland, MA

Thanh-Thien Nguyen

ED, HIT Strategy & Policy, Kaiser Permanente; Co-Chair, WEDI Privacy & Security Workgroup; Former Director, Regulatory Compliance, Pfizer, Pasadena, CA

Henry Norwood, JD

Of Counsel, Kaufman Dolowich LLP, Levant, ME

Helen Oscislawski, JD

Principal & Managing Member, Attorneys at Oscislawski, LLC; Member, Privacy & Consent Workgroup, The Sequoia Project, Scottsdale, AZ

Uday Ali Pabrai, MSEE, CMMC (Lead CCA, CCP), HITRUST CCSFP, CISSP

Chief Executive, ecfirst, Inc, Irvine, CA

Nancy Leeds Perkins, JD

Counsel, Arnold & Porter; Former Editor, Harvard Law Review and Harvard International Law Journal, Washington, DC

Elizabeth Pitman, JD

Partner, Holland & Knight; Former General Counsel, SuccessEHS, Birmingham, AL

Denitsa Pocheva-Smith, JD

Vice President, Legal and Compliance, HIPAA Privacy Officer, Knowtion Health, Boston, MA

Joan Podleski, CCEP, CHPC, CHRC, CHC

Vice President & Chief Privacy Officer, Children's Health System of Texas; Former Director, Institutional Ethics & Compliance Program, Duke University, Dallas, TX

Hal Porter, CISSP, CCSP, C|CISO, Security+, CE

Director, Consulting Services, Clearwater Security; Former VP, Information Technology, Ambulatory Services of America, Atlanta, GA

Pamela Schafer Rayne, JD

Practice Group Leader & Chief Legal Counsel, HIPAA and Privacy, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Washington, DC

Alexander M. Razi, JD

Partner, Kaufman Dolowich LLP, New York, NY

Shannon K. Reed, JD

Associate General Counsel, Parkview Health System, Inc., Fort Wayne, IN

Lisa Pierce Reisz, JD

Member, Health Information Technology & HIPAA Practice, Epstein Becker Green, Columbus, OH

Wes Rhea, JD, MBA, CPC

Compliance Officer and HIPAA Privacy and Security Officer, Marigold Health, Marietta, GA

Kristen Rosati, JD

Partner and Chair, Governance Committee, Coppersmith Brockelman; Immediate Past President, American Health Lawyers Association, Phoenix, AZ

Frank Ruelas, MBA

Compliance Professional; Author, All Aboard Compliance Column, Compliance Today Magazine, Healthcare Compliance Association, Casa Grande, AZ

Julie Seitz, JD

Chief Compliance Officer at BrightView, LLC; Former Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Privacy Officer, Sound Physicians, Tacoma, WA

Devi Shah, JD, MPH

CPO & Associate GC, Clover Health; Fmr Assistant DC & CPO, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association; Fmr Health Information Privacy Policy Analyst, HHS OCR, Washington, DC

R. Brett Short, CHC, CHPC, CHRC

Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Privacy Officer, University of Kentucky; Board & Immediate Past Chair, Health Care Compliance Association, Lexington, KY

Melissa Soliz, JD

Partner, Coppersmith Brockelman; Co-Chair, Data Privacy & Consent Workgroup, The Sequoia Project, Phoenix, AZ

Kendra N. Stark, JD

Partner and Co-Chair of the Correctional Healthcare Group, Gordan Rees Scully Mansukhani, Raleigh, NC

Aryn Subhawong, JD

Senior Technology Counsel, Tech & Innovation Law Group, HCA, Nashville, TN

Alya Sulaiman, JD

Privacy, Regulatory Affairs, and Compliance, Datavant; Former Director of Health Policy & Regulatory Affairs, Epic, Los Angeles, CA

Sean T. Sullivan, JD

Partner, Alston & Bird; Former Trial Defense Attorney & Chief of Civil Litigation, US Army, Atlanta, GA

Sydney Reed Swanson, JD

Associate, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; Co-author, HHS Proposes Major 2025 Update to HIPAA Security Rule, Houston, TX

Katie Talerico, MA, CHC

Vice President, Compliance, Children’s Specialized ABA; Former Director, Compliance and Privacy, Vincentian, Beaver, PA

Christopher Tellner, JD

Partner and Co-chair, Health Care/Managed Care Practice Group, Kaufman Dolowich LLP; Former HIPAA Compliance Coordinator, Central Michigan University, Delaware Law School, Philadelphia, PA

Robert M. Tennant, MA

Executive Director, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI); Former Director, HIT Policy, Medical Group Management Association, Washington, DC

Cody Venzke, JD

Senior Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; Former Attorney Advisor, US Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC

Betsy Wade, MPH, CHC, CHPC, CNA

Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer, Signature Healthcare; Board & Treasurer, Health Care Compliance Association, Louisville, KY

Robbi Watnik, JD, CHPC

Senior Consultant, Strategic Management Services; Former Acting Executive Director, Office of Compliance, Veterans' Health Administration, Clifton, VA

Erin Richter Weber, MS

Vice President, Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) and Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE), Washington, DC

Kelly Willenberg, MBA, DBA

Chief Executive Officer, Kelly Willenberg and Assocs; Board & Second Vice Chair, Health Care Compliance Association, Greenville, SC

Rebecca L. Williams, JD

Partner and Co-chair, Health Information and HIPAA Practice, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, WA

Chantal Worzala, PhD

Vice President, Strategy & Engagement, The Sequoia Project; Former VP, Health Information Policy, American Hospital Association, Takoma Park, MD

Wendi W. Wright, MJ, JD, CIPP E/US

Vice President, Privacy and Data Protection, Intuitive; Former Assoc. Senior Privacy Counsel, Cigna; Former Chief Privacy Officer. Stanford University, Sunnyvale, CA

Maggie Wykowski, JD

Principal Corporate Counsel, Microsoft, Seattle, WA

J. Veronica Xu

Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer and ADA Administrator, Saber Healthcare Group, Cleveland, OH

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