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.