Data Privacy & Security Contacts
This list is intended to help identify the right people for data privacy and security questions.
Privacy and Security
- Questions related to HIPAA Privacy, including whether information constitutes PHI or the minimum necessary:
- For SMPH researchers: Ryan Moze, SMPH Privacy Coordinator
- For all others, the HCC unit Privacy Coordinator or Jack Talaska, HIPAA Privacy Officer (including for non-HCC researchers)
- Questions related to HIPAA Security, including whether cloud storage tools, data maintenance and transfer tools, etc., are secure:
- For SMPH researchers: Ignacio Rodriguez Cortes, Honest Broker, and Amy Diestler, SMPH Security Coordinator
- For all others, the HCC unit Security Coordinator or Dharvesh Naraine, HIPAA Security Officer (including for non-HCC researchers)
- Questions related to security for sensitive but non-HIPAA covered data, including whether cloud storage tools, data maintenance and transfer tools, etc., are secure:
- For questions relating to the classification of data, study teams can review this guidance or consult Lisa Johnston, Director of Data Governance.
- A request for a security review of an online tool (e.g., software) can be made through OneTrust
- For SMPH researchers, general questions can be directed to Ignacio Rodriguez Cortes, Honest Broker, and Amy Diestler, SMPH Security Coordinator
- For all others, general questions can be directed to RMC Cybersecurity or Patti Havlicek, Cybersecurity RMC Assoc. Director
Data Access through CRDS
- For general questions, Ignacio Rodriguez Cortes, Honest Broker
- For recruitment related questions, Mike Semanik, Clinical Leader for CRDS, and Gabe McMahan, Director for Research Data Services
Legal Terms of Use for Online Platforms/Software
- For questions about Terms and Conditions for tools that researchers will be buying, direct study teams to Purchasing Services
- For questions about Terms and Conditions related to tools that are free on the web, direct study teams to RSP Contracts Manager and Team
OpenAI
- For SMPH researchers, questions about what kind of information can be input to OpenAI like ChatGPT, direct study teams to Mike Collins, Senior IT Director
- For all others, direct questions to Todd Shechter, Chief Technology Officer, Division of Information Technology (DoIT)