Alan Stuart Goldberg practices business and tax law including
the delivery and regulation of health care, and information
technology. He is a member of the bars of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, the State of New York, the District of Columbia, the State of
Florida, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and the bars of the
United States Supreme Court, the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States District Court -
Massachusetts and the United States District Court - Eastern and
Western Districts of Virginia, and the United States Court of Federal
Claims and the United States Tax Court.
A past President of the American Health Lawyers Association
(1991-1992), Mr. Goldberg served on the AHLA Board of Directors from
1981 to 1993, and served as an Internet advisor to the AHLA Board. He
received the AHLA David J. Greenburg Service Award in 1996 and was
named an AHLA Inaugural Fellow in 2005. Mr. Goldberg is the founding
moderator of the American Health Lawyers Association Health Information
and Technology Internet listserv.
In 2006, Mr. Goldberg received the Distinguished Alumnus Award
from Boston College Law School at the 75th anniversary celebration of
the founding of the law school.
Mr. Goldberg has appeared in The Best Lawyers in America and has
served as Vice Chair of the American Health Lawyers Association Health
Information and Technology Practice Group, as well as Chair of the
American Bar Association Health Law Section’s e-Health & Privacy
Interest Group.
Mr. Goldberg received his AB in history from Brooklyn College of
the City University of New York, and his JD from Boston College Law
School, where he was a member of the Law Review and was selected for
the National Moot Court Team. After his graduation from Boston
College Law School in 1967, Mr. Goldberg commenced the practice of law
at Goulston & Storrs in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1978, he received
his LL.M. (Taxation) from Boston University School of Law.
Upon admission to the bar of the Commonwealth of Virginia on
June 5, 2006, Mr. Goldberg opened the law office of Alan S. Goldberg,
Attorney & Counsellor-at-Law, which is located at 6845 Elm Street,
Suite 205, McLean, Virginia 22101, and which is now Mr. Goldberg's sole
office location.
Mr. Goldberg's introduction to health law occurred during the
dawning of the Medicare/Medicaid programs era when he served as a staff
Judge Advocate, a District Claims Officer, and a prosecutor and defense
counsel in the United States Navy from 1968 to 1970. During his tenure
in the U. S. Navy JAGC, he was involved in Navy investigative actions
relating to the return of the USS Pueblo from North Korea and the
Sealab undersea exploration project in California.
Mr. Goldberg has authored numerous publications on business,
health care, technology, and other legal issues including on topics
relating to privacy and security, telemedicine, civil and criminal
health care regulatory enforcement, ethics and professional
responsibility, assisted living, and long term care development and
financing, for the American Bar Association, the American Health
Lawyers Association, the Virginia Bar Association and Virginia
Continuing Legal Education, the District of Columbia Bar, and the
Boston Bar Association.
Mr. Goldberg has planned and participated as a moderator and as
a lecturer in numerous national conferences and teleconferences,
including programs for the American Bar Association and the American
Health Lawyers Association. He also has planned and participated in
educational programs for many other organizations in Virginia,
Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, Florida, Michigan, South
Carolina, Oregon, London UK, and Israel, including the Massachusetts
Hospital Association, Massachusetts Dental Society, Massachusetts
Medical Society, and the Massachusetts Long Term Care Foundation; the
American Telemedicine Association; the Health Care Compliance
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; the District of Columbia AHIMA chapter;
The Sedona Conference; the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Bar
Association; and the Northern Virginia Technology Council. Mr. Goldberg
also has presented loss prevention seminars relating to technology
issues to the membership of Attorneys’ Liability Assurance Society.
Additionally, Mr. Goldberg was the editor of a law and computer
technology column, “The Computer Wizard” published by the American Bar
Association's Business Law Section magazine “Business Law Today”.
Mr. Goldberg served on the Practice Council: Electronic Health
Record of the American Health Information Management Association, and
currently Co-Chairs The National HIPAA Summit series. He served as a
Council Member of the ABA Health Law Section and was its first
Substantive Webmaster. Mr. Goldberg served as Co-Chair of the
Steering Committee of the Health Law Section and currently serves as a
member of the Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee of the DC
Bar. He is a member of the Council of the Virginia Bar
Association Health Law Section with a particular focus on continuing
legal education and publication of an eNewsletter. Mr. Goldberg
is a member of the Technology and the Practice of Law Special Committee
and Secretary of the Board of Governors of the Health Law Section of
the Virginia State Bar. He is Co-Chair of the Health Technology
Committee of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, and he currently
serves as Chairman of the Legal Documents Committee of the Northern
Virginia Regional Health Information Organization Inc. (NOVARHIOsm) and
Secretary of the Board of Directors of NOVARHIOsm. Mr. Goldberg is also
a former member of Local 802, American Federation of Musicians,
Associated Musicians of Greater New York.
Mr. Goldberg’s academic association began at Boston College Law
School where he taught a course in Land Finance as a Lecturer in
Law. He has taught eHealth Care Law at the University of Maryland
School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland as well as at Suffolk University
Law School in Boston, Massachusetts as a member of the Adjunct
Faculty. He has taught Health Care Informatics and Law as a
Member of the Adjunct Faculty of Marymount University School of
Business Administration in Ballston, Virginia. Mr. Goldberg is
currently a member of the Adjunct Faculties of George Mason School of
Law in Arlington, Virginia and George Mason University College of
Health and Human Services Department of Health Administration and
Policy in Fairfax Virginia, where he teaches Health Law.
Among Mr. Goldberg’s interests include the transactional and
financial aspects of health care, life sciences, biotechnology, and
related businesses including formation and operation of business
entities, regulatory enforcement and civil and criminal health law
defense including the defense of licensure and payor actions against
health care providers, the Internet, security and encryption, privacy
and confidentiality, software licensing, medical devices, corporate
compliance programs, certificate of public need, reimbursement,
regional health information organizations, information technology,
taxation including tax-exempt organizations, and telemedicine, and
challenges and opportunities involving the application of technology to
the practice of law and medicine and to the delivery of healthcare.
ASG/tt
July 8, 2008
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