Conference Speakers

Robert M. Califf, Former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Robert Califf, MD

Vice Chancellor for Health Data Science, Duke University; former U.S. Commissioner of Food and Drugs

Margaret Hamburg, MD

President, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Medicine; former U.S. Commissioner of Food and Drugs

David Kessler, MD

Professor, University of California San Francisco; former U.S. Commissioner of Food and Drugs

Andrew C. von Eschenbach, MD

President, Samaritan Health Initiatives, Inc.; former U.S. Commissioner of Food and Drugs

Richard Cooper, JD, MA

Senior Counsel, Williams & Connolly, LLP; former Chief Counsel, FDA

Peter Barton Hutt, LLB, LLM

Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP; former Chief Counsel, FDA

Gerald F. Masoudi, JD

Chief Legal Officer, JUUL Labs, Inc.; former Chief Counsel, FDA

Daniel Troy, JD

Senior Vice President and General Counsel, GlaxoSmithKline PLC; former Chief Counsel, FDA

Wade Ackerman, JD

Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Micah L. Berman, JD

Associate Professor, Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law and College of Public Health

Laurie Beyranevand, jd

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Director, Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School

Marc M. Boutin, JD

Chief Executive Officer, National Health Council

Marie Boyd, JD

Assistant Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

President, American University, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services

Azim Chowdhury, JD, mba

Partner, Keller and Heckman LLP

I. Glenn Cohen, JD

James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics Harvard Law School

Nathan Cortez, JD

Associate Dean for Research, Gerald J. Ford Research Fellow, Adelfa Botello Callejo Endowed Professor of Law in Leadership and Latino Studies, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law

James N. Czaban, JD

Partner, Chair, FDA Practice Group, DLA Piper

Rebecca S. Eisenberg, JD

Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

Alexandra Gerber, JD

Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Revlon, Inc.

Jeffrey N. Gibbs, JD

Director, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. and Chair, FDLI Board of Directors

Lewis Grossman, JD, PhD

Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

Yaniv Heled, LLB, LLM, JSD

Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law, Georgia State University College of Law

Ralph F. Hall, JD

Professor of Practice, University of Minnesota Law School

Gail H. Javitt, JD, MPH

Member of the Firm, Epstein Becker Green

Elizabeth Jungman, JD, MPH

Director of Public Health Programs, Pew Charitable Trusts

Dmitry Karshtedt, JD, PhD, MA

Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School

Kurt Karst, JD (AUWCL '01)

Director, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C.

Linda Katz, MD, MPH

Director, Office of Cosmetics and Colors, Acting Chief Medical Officer, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA

Craig Konnoth, JD

Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Boulder Law School

Daniel Kracov, JD

Partner and Co-chair, Live Sciences and Healthcare Regulatory Practice, Arnold & Porter LLP and Adjunct Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

Chad Landmon, JD

Partner, Chair, Intellectual Property and FDA Practice Groups, Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Erika Lietzan, JD, MA

Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law

Myrisha S. Lewis, JD

Assistant Professor of Law, Howard University School of

Geoffrey Levitt, JD

Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Regulatory, Environmental and Global Supply, Pfizer, Inc.

Peter Marks, MD, PhD

Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA

Elizabeth Y. McCuskey, JD

Professor of Law, University of Toledo Law School

Theresa Mullin, PhD

Associate Director for Strategic Initiatives, CDER, FDA

Lars Noah, JD

Professor of Law, Stephen C. O’Connell Chair, University Term Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law

Jordan Paradise

Georgia Reithal Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Bakul Patel, MSEE, MBA

Associate Center Director for Digital Health, CDRH, FDA

Jeannie Perron, DVM, JD

Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Peter Pitts

President, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest

W. Nicholson Price II, JD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

Amy Comstock Rick, jd

President and CEO, Food and Drug Law Institute

Sarah Roller, JD, RD, MPH

Partner, Chair, Food and Drug Law Practice, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Rachel E. Sachs, JD, MPH

Associate Professor of Law, Washington University Law School

D. Kyle Sampson, JD

Partner, King & Spalding LLP

Joanna Sax, JD, PhD

E. Donald Shapiro Professor of Law, California Western School of Law

David C. Spangler, jd

Senior Vice President, Policy, and General Counsel and Secretary, Consumer Healthcare Products Association

Grail Sipes

Deputy Center Director for Regulatory Policy, CDER, FDA

Michael Werner, JD

Partner, Co-Leader, Healthcare & Life Sciences Team, Holland & Knight LLP

Diana Winters, JD, PhD, MA

Assistant Director of Scholarship, Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy, University of California Los Angeles School of Law

Brian Wolfman, JD

Associate Professor of Law, Director, Appellate Court Immersion Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center

Mitch Zeller, JD (AUWCL '82)

Director, Center for Tobacco Products, FDA

Patricia J. Zettler, JD

Associate Professor, Georgia State University College of Law

Health Law and Policy Program

FDA: Past, Present, and Future