Appointed Chief Privacy Officer at Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health & Human Services in October 2014, Lucia Savage has been working on health privacy, transparency, and interoperable health information exchange since HIPAA was enacted in 1997. At ONC, she advises the National Coordinator and HHS on privacy and security for digital health information inside of HIPAA and outside of traditional healthcare. She previously served as General Counsel at Pacific Business Group on Health, working on such topics as healthcare transparency strategy, large data transactions, health information exchange, and All-Payer Claims Databases.

Interests include the intersections of behavioral economics, mHealth technology, consumer engagement in health, and function and dysfunction in the healthcare system.

Lucia has a BA with Honor from Mills College in Oakland, CA, and received her Juris Doctor summa cum laude from New York University School of Law.

Sally Okun is the Vice President for Advocacy, Policy and Patient Safety at PatientsLikeMe in Cambridge, MA. She is responsible for the company's patient advocacy initiatives; she participates and contributes to health policy discussions at the national and global level; and she is the company's liaison with government and regulatory agencies. Prior to joining PatientsLikeMe, Sally, a registered nurse, practiced as a palliative and end-of-life care specialist and contributed to multiple clinical, research, and educational projects for numerous clients including Brown University, Harvard Medical School, MA Department of Mental Health, Hospice Education Network and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition, Sally participates on the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Value and Science Driven Healthcare. She was a National Library of Medicine Biomedical Informatics Fellow in 2010.