Education & Experience

Legal Experience

• Pharmaceutical Law Group PC, Washington, DC, Principal, 2006 - Present
• Ropes & Gray LLP, 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

• Visiting Scholar, Yale School of Management, MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare Program, November 19-20, 2009
• 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 (inactive);
• 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.