Lisa Goldstein serves as a Health Information Privacy Specialist with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR. At OCR, Lisa helps to develop policy, regulations, and guidance related to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules with an emphasis on the issues arising at the intersection of health information privacy and health IT.

Lisa comes to OCR after more than 15 years of advocating on behalf of providers with the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). She has worked on a wide range of issues affecting clinicians and the organizations for which they work, including payment and coverage, health IT, health privacy, clinical research policy, and more. Lisa received her undergraduate degree in Political Science – Honors from the University at Albany, State University of New York and her Law Degree from Georgetown University Law Center.