Alan Stuart Goldberg

Alan is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, New York and Florida . Mr. Goldberg concentrates in the practice of business and administrative law including the delivery of healthcare and information technology. Goulston & Storrs provides creative solutions in the areas of real estate, taxation, estate planning, bankruptcy, health care, drugs and devices, litigation, technology, complex business transactions, and life sciences, via several U.S. offices and via a London, UK office.

Mr. Goldberg's introduction to health law and information technology occurred during the dawning of the Medicare/Medicaid programs era as a staff judge advocate and a prosecutor in the United States Navy, and Mr. Goldberg was also involved in investigative actions relating to the USS Pueblo and the Sealab project.

Mr. Goldberg joined Goulston & Storrs in 1967 upon graduation from Boston College Law School, where he was a member of the Law Review and received an academic scholarship, and as a Lecturer in Law presented a course in land finance. In 1978 Mr. Goldberg received an LL.M. (Taxation) from Boston University School of Law. Mr. Goldberg serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and at Boston 's Suffolk University Law School. He is a Past President of National Health Lawyers Association (1991-1992) and served on the AHLA Board of Directors from 1981 to 1993; and served as an Internet advisor to the Health Lawyers Board. Mr. Goldberg received the National Health Lawyers Association David J. Greenburg Service Award in 1996.

Mr. Goldberg has published on many business, health law, and other legal issues and he has frequently lectured for the American Health Lawyers Association, and also for many bar and other associations including the Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Florida, Virginia and South Carolina bars; the Massachusetts Hospital Association, Dental Society, Medical Society, and Long Term Care Foundation; the American Telemedicine Association; the Workgroup For Electronic Data Interchange; the American Health Care Association; the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society; the United States Navy; the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; and for many other organizations, and he participates in many national conferences as a moderator and a lecturer.

Mr. Goldberg was the Editor of a law and computer technology column called "The Computer Wizard" published by the American Bar Association's Business Law Section magazine "Business Law Today"; and he is the founding moderator of the American Health Lawyers Association Health Information and Technology Internet listserv. Mr. Goldberg has presented loss prevention seminars relating to technology issues to the membership of Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society. Among Mr. Goldberg's current interests are national and international challenges and opportunities involving the application of technology to the practice of law and medicine and to the delivery of healthcare, including issues involving the Internet, security and encryption, privacy and confidentiality, software licensing and devices, corporate compliance programs and ethics, and telemedicine. Mr. Goldberg served as Vice Chair of the American Health Lawyers Association Health Information and Technology Practice Group, and Chair of the American Bar Association Health Law Section's e-Health & Privacy Interest Group; and he co-chairs The

National HIPAA Summit series of events and is a Council Member of the ABA Health Law Section and its first Substantive Webmaster and he is a Steering Committee Member of the DC Bar Health Law Section.

Mr. Goldberg is the Webmaster of http://www.healthlawyer.com; and goldberg@goulstorrs.com is his electronic mail address. Mr. Goldberg is now resident in the Washington, DC office of Goulston & Storrs.