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Contributors and Supporters
Expertise, Advocacy, and Passion
Contributors are national privacy experts and substance use disorder treatment experts. We share our analysis and thoughtfulness on these issues publicly because we believe that you deserve to hear all sides, and have the right to decide what happens to your personal health data.
Danielle Tarino, M.A.
Danielle is a passionate privacy rights advocate and former SAMHSA staff member. During her time at SAMHSA, she was the acting Health IT Team lead and a subject matter expert on patient privacy and confidentiality. Danielle was on the team that published the 2017/2018 updated Part 2 regulations. She is currently the Vice President of a cybersecurity company and an academic researcher of clinical bioethics. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling...and fighting for patient privacy rights!
H. Westley Clark, M.D., J.D., M.P.H.,CAS, FASAM
Dr. Clark is the former Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) at SAMHSA. He lead the agency’s national effort to provide effective and accessible treatment to all Americans with substance use disorders. Dr. Clark is a noted author and educator in substance use disorder treatment, anger and pain management, psychopharmacology, and medical and legal issues. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to the field of substance use treatment, including a 2008 President of the United States Rank of Distinguished Executive Award in recognition of his personal commitment to excellence in government and public service; and a 2003 President of the United States of America Rank of Meritorious Executive Award in the Senior Executive Service. Dr. Clark is currently a Dean's Executive Professor at Santa Clara University where he teaches public health.
Some of our contributors/thought leaders have chosen to remain anonymous. We would like to acknowledge their tireless efforts at the national, state, and local levels of advocacy. Without them, we would not be able to continue this fight for patient privacy rights and we are eternally grateful for their contributions to this effort and this site. Thank you.
Special thanks to our friends at RAP for their support and advocacy. The Recovery Advocacy Project (RAP) is a network of people and organizations across the country advocating for addiction recovery policies. RAP is committed to giving people in recovery, family members, and supporters of recovery the grassroots organizing tools to think and act locally. RAP is working to build a visible and effective constituency in demand of community and public policy based solutions in response to America’s long standing addiction crisis.