Alaap B. Shah

Tech-savvy and solutions-oriented, Alaap B. Shah deftly guides clients through complex and ever-evolving privacy, cybersecurity, medical device, artificial intelligence (AI), interoperability, digital health, telehealth, fraud and abuse, and other laws and regulations.

As co-leader of Epstein Becker Green’s AI Cross-Practice Working Group, Alaap helps clients compliantly develop and deploy these cutting-edge technologies. He enables clients to build trust among stakeholders so that they can robustly collect, share, analyse, and protect data and information-technology assets. Alaap can also translate “IT speak” for legal, compliance, and business people.

Alaap holds several globally recognised technology and information-assurance credentials, including AIGP, CIPP/US, CPHIMS, and HITRUST CCSFP. Clients appreciate his strategic and pragmatic approach to risk management that bridges the gap among legal, compliance, IT, and business teams so they can succeed in developing and marketing innovative solutions.

Alaap’s clients include all types of health care, life sciences, data analytics, and technology companies at various stages of development. He represents start-ups in the United States and abroad developing digital-health applications, medical devices, telehealth solutions, AI, and data-analytics platforms; and works with mid-size to large companies seeking to expand and mature legal, compliance, and risk-management functions.

During law school, Alaap worked with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of General Counsel, providing legal counsel to all agencies and programmes under the Public Health Division. He began his legal career at Epstein Becker Green and later served as Senior Counsel and Chief Privacy and Security Officer at an oncology membership society, where he strengthened enterprise-wide privacy and security and helped launch a Big Data company focused on improving quality of care.

Alaap’s career arc spans the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in-house chief privacy / security leadership at an oncology membership society, and back to private practice as a Member of the Firm at Epstein Becker Green — with the AI Cross-Practice Working Group co-leadership at the firm.