Melissa Goldstein

Melissa Goldstein is a Teaching Associate Professor at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at GW, where she teaches courses in bioethics, health information technology policy, and public health law. Her research focuses on health information privacy and the legal and policy aspects of health information technology. She has served as Assistant Director for Bioethics and Privacy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as a senior advisor to the Chief Privacy Officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and as a legal consultant to President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission. Earlier in her career she was a director at the Markle Foundation managing policy aspects of its health information technology work and a senior litigation associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia, received her law degree from Yale Law School, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in bioethics and health policy at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities. She brings to this panel expertise in bioethics, health information privacy, and the legal and policy dimensions of AI in health and research contexts.