FDA: Past, Present, and Future
October 19, 2018
American University Washington College of Law
Conference Speakers
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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