The HIPAA Summit West II, March 13 - 15, 2002, will feature a faculty of over 100, 45 major content sessions and the following nationally-renowned faculty:

W. Holt Anderson
Executive Director, North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Research Triangle Park, NC

Chris Apgar
Data Security Officer and HIPAA Compliance Officer, Providence Health Plan, Beaverton, OR

William R. Braithwaite, MD, Ph.D.
Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Former Senior Advisor on Health Information Policy, DHHS, Washington, DC

Becky Buegel, RHIA
Director of Health Information Management, Casa Grande Regional Medical Center, Casa Grande, AZ

Molly Joel Coye, MD, MHA
Founder and President, Health Technology Center, Former Director, California Department of Health Services and Former New Jersey Commissioner of Health, San Francisco, CA

Rebecca Cowling
HIPAA Manager, GovConnect, and Chair, AFEHCT, Dallas, TX

Walter Culbertson
Chief Technology Officer, Acting Chief Security and Privacy Officer, Availity, LLC, Co-Chair, WEDI SNIP Security & Privacy and Chair, Southern HIPAA Administrative Regional Process (SHARP), Jacksonville, FL

James DiDonato, MBA-MIS, CIA, CHFP
HIPAA Project Manager and Security Officer, Project Management Office Information Services Baystate Health System, Springfield, MA

Donna Z. Eden, Esq.
Senior Attorney, Office of General Counsel, DHHS, Washington, DC

Kathleen H. Fyffe
Senior Advisor for Privacy Outreach Activities, Office of Civil Rights, DHHS, Washington, DC

Alan S. Goldberg, Esq.
Partner, Goulston & Storrs, Adjunct Professor, Suffolk University Law School and Moderator, AHLA HIT List serve, Boston, MA

Ross Hallberg
Corporate Compliance Officer, John Muir - Mt. Diablo Health System, Walnut Creek, CA

Tom Hanks
Director Client Services, Health Care Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP and Co chair, WEDi/AFEHCT Communications Interoperability Work Group, Member of the WEDi Board and Co-chair the Privacy Policy Advisory Group and the Security Policy Advisory Group, Chicago, IL

Mary Henderson
Director, HIPAA Programs, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA

Christine Jensen
HIPAA Project Manager, Denver Health, Denver, CO

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

Denise Love, MBA
Executive Director, National Association of Health Data Organizations, Salt Lake City, UT

Mikel Lynch
Privacy Officer, University Health Care, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Ian Morrison, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Institute for the Future, Chair, Health Futures Forum and Author, The Second Curve - Managing the Velocity of Change, Menlo Park, CA

David Paraiso, Jr.
Director of Information Systems Integration, Integrated Technologies, Inc and HIPAA Instructor, University of California and Georgetown University

John C. Parmigiani
Director, HIPAA Compliance Services, ctg HealthCare Solutions, Inc., and Former Director of Enterprise Standards, HCFA, Cincinnati, OH

Richard Purcell
Senior Director, Corporate Privacy Office, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

Roy Rada, MD, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Chair, HIMSS HIPAA SIG, and Arthur, Information Systems for Healthcare Enterprises and Health information Transactions, Privacy and Security, Baltimore, MD

Peter Swire, Esq.
Visiting Professor, George Washington University and Former Chief Counselor, President of the United States, Washington, DC

Paul C. Tang, MD
Chief Medical information Officer, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, CA

Kepa Zubeldia, MD
President and CEO, Claredi, Inc., Vice-Chair, AFEHCT, and Chair, WEDI Security Policy Advisory Group, Kaysville, UT