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Education / Experience
Legal Experience

Pharmaceutical Law Group PC, Washington, DC, Principal, 2006 - Present

Ropes & Gray, Washington, DC, Partner, 1999 - 2005

Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Washington, DC, Partner, 1997 - 1999

Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP, Washington, DC, Counsel, 1995 - 1997

Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, Associate, 1988 - 1995

Other Experience

New England Deaconess Hospital and Harvard Medical School,

Boston, Massachusetts

Resident, Internal Medicine, 1987-1988

Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1986

Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review Book Review Editor, Volume 20

Legal Methods Instructor

Teaching Assistant, Federal Litigation (Professor David Rosenberg)

Thesis: “Toward a Theory of Law and Medicine”

Duke Medical School, M.D., 1987

Harvard College, A.B., magna cum laude, Biochemical Sciences, 1981

Thesis: “The Establishment and Partial Characterization of Primary Cell Cultures of Rat Carotid Bodies”

Professional Activities

Conference Chairman, FDLI’s Biosimilars: The Science, The Law and The Legislative Prospects, November 15, 2007

The Sedona Conference Working Group (4) on the Intersection of the Patent and Antitrust Laws, 2006 to Present

Listed among the top Food & Drug Lawyers in Washington, D.C. by Washingtonian Magazine, December 2004

Contributing Editor to the Journal of Biolaw and Business, 2003

Member, National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, 1998 - 2000 Joint Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Bar Association (ABA); ABA Appointee

Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1991 - 1999 Course: Innovation in Biomedical Technology

Lecturer, University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall), 1999 Course: Exclusive Rights in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries

Bar Admissions

South Carolina, 1987; District of Columbia, 1989; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1989; U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1989; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1990; Supreme Court of the United States, 1995.

Other

Registered to Practice Before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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