About the IAPP

Lara Liss is Chief Privacy and Data Trust Officer for GE HealthCare, which partners with customers to fulfill healthcare’s greatest potential through groundbreaking medical technology, intelligent devices and care solutions. GE HealthCare operates in more than 160 countries and serves more than 1B patients annually.  GE HealthCare also leads the medical device industry in deployment of AI with more than 72 AI enabled devices on the market in 2024. Lara co-leads GE HealthCare’s Responsible AI initiative.

Prior to joining GE Healthcare, Lara was Global Chief Privacy Officer for Walgreens Boots Alliance, a Fortune 20 global retail, pharmacy and healthcare company. There she led the team responsible for maintaining the privacy of more than 1B prescriptions per year and advised the company on cybersecurity incident response, privacy legal and compliance issues and reproductive health privacy. In addition, she founded and co-led the company’s Responsible AI initiative.

Prior to joining Walgreens Boots Alliance, Lara was Senior Counsel for Global Privacy at Abbott Laboratories, Privacy Officer and Assistant General Counsel of a regional health system and an attorney in the HealthCare group at Sidley Austin LLP, where she represented pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers and health care providers in internal investigations, regulatory compliance counseling and privacy matters. Lara has her JD and Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Michigan and is currently completing her Executive MBA at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.