About the IAPP

Jennifer S. Geetter is a partner at McDermott Will & Emery and advises global life sciences, health care and informatics clients on legal issues attendant to biomedical innovation, research compliance, financial relationship management, digital health practices, and global privacy and data security laws. Jennifer represents a broad range of clients, including pharmaceutical, device and biologics companies, health plan and institutional providers, digital health technology companies, research institutes and informatics, data brokers and data aggregator companies. Jennifer’s practice focuses on assisting clients in implementing research strategies, including compliance and research program structure and operational and compliance infrastructure, complex research affiliation agreements and arrangements, scientific review and research misconduct proceeding and investigations, and biobanking and registry development and compliance. She also advises on Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state and federal privacy, security and breach response preparedness and response, development and implementation of data-sharing strategies and platforms, and data privacy, data mapping and data use strategies for mobile apps and other digital technologies. She is a frequent speaker and author on these topics.