Amy Leopard is a veteran health IT attorney based in Bradley’s Nashville office at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and innovation. For over 25 years, she has guided healthcare providers, payors, and innovators through complex regulations, designing technology and data-sharing solutions that safeguard patients, data, technology assets, and intellectual property while mitigating privacy and security risks.
Amy helps clients leverage technology for innovative applications across the AI life cycle to transform regulated healthcare data into scalable, responsible AI solutions. She offers strategic guidance on enterprise governance and risk management, contracting and procurement, regulatory and product counsel, data rights, interoperability, and government enforcement. Amy holds MIT Sloan’s AI in Health Care certificate, which covers AI assurance, risk stratification, transparency, and bias mitigation from concept to deployment. Her decade in hospital leadership provides valuable operational insight, and an early internship at the U.S. Justice Department shaped her regulatory counsel.
Amy has dedicated her career to health law, serving as secretary and board member of the American Health Law Association and chairing its Health IT Practice Group. In 2017, she was honored as the "Healthcare Law Lawyer of the Year" for Nashville. She is a HIMSS fellow and holds certifications in both AI Governance and Privacy (AIGP-CIPP) by the IAPP. Amy has been recognized in Chambers and Best Lawyers in America® for Health Care Law, IT Law, and Privacy and Data Security Law and previously taught healthcare finance and transactions at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.