Nadine P. Peters, JD, MPH, is Deputy General Counsel at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).  She provides legal counsel and advice to PCORI on organizational policies and procedures and program operations with a particular focus on research-related matters.  

Before PCORI, Peters was a partner at Hogan Lovells, where her practice focused on healthcare regulatory issues with an emphasis on health information privacy, data, and clinical research.  She has extensive experience counseling on human subjects research regulations and federal and state privacy laws, including the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), tissue and data repositories, genomics research, and the use of health information in large-scale data analytics projects.  She has specialized expertise advising academic medical centers on privacy risks related to clinical integration and health care quality initiatives.  Previously, she was an associate at Choate, Hall & Stewart, where she focused on healthcare compliance issues, healthcare transactions, and government investigations.  She also served as an attorney at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the General Counsel, where she provided legal guidance to program officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Peters has BAs in biology and health & society from Brown University, a MPH from Boston University School of Public Health, and a JD from Boston University School of Law.  She is a member of the bars of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.