Janlori Goldman, Director, Health Privacy Project

Ms. Goldman founded and directs the Health Privacy Project, which is dedicated to ensuring that people's privacy is safeguarded in the health care environment.  Ms. Goldman is research faculty at the Center on Medicine as a professor at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1997, Ms.Goldman was a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center. In 1994, Ms. Goldman co-founded the Center for Democracy and Technology, a non-profit civil liberties organization committed to preserving free speech and privacy on the Internet. Ms. Goldman also worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1994. From 1986 to 1994, Ms. Goldman was the staff attorney and Director of the Privacy and Technology Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. While at the ACLU, Ms. Goldman led the effort to enact the Video Privacy Protection Act and led efforts to protect people's health, credit and financial information and personal information held by the government. She was the Legislative Director of the Minnesota affiliate of the ACLU from 1984-86.  Ms. Goldman testifies frequently before the U.S. Congress, has served on numerous commissions and advisory boards and has published extensively.