Distinguished Faculty

drawn from the best that the bar, the bench, and the industry have to offer

Co-Chairs:

Gary McConnell
VP & Assistant General Counsel
Bayer

Jean Holloway
VP & Deputy General Counsel
Medtronic - Cardiology

Keynote Speaker:

Ralph S. Tyler
Chief Counsel
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

The Honorable John G. Heyburn II
Chairman
U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

Judges:

W. Royal Furgeson, Jr.
JPML Multidistrict Panel Judge
United States District Court
Northern District of Texas

Judge David A. Katz
United States District Court
Northern District of Ohio

Chief Judge David R. Herndon
United States District Court
Southern District of Illinois

Hon. John R. Tunheim
U.S. Dist. Co., D. Minnesota

Hon. Sandra Mazer Moss
Coordinating Judge, Complex Litigation Center
Court of Common Pleas
Philadelphia

Speakers::

J. Christopher Allen, Jr.
Partner
Nixon Peabody LLP (Boston, MA)

Keri L. Arnold
Partner
Arnold & Porter LLP (New York, NY)

Valli F. Baldassano
Executive V.P. &
Chief Compliance Officer
Cephalon (Frazer, PA)

Andrew T. Bayman
Partner
King & Spalding LLP (Atlanta, GA)

Mary-Alice Barrett
Senior Counsel - Litigation
Hoffmann-La Roche (Nutley, NJ)

Rebecca Weinstein Bacon
Partner
Barlit Beck H erman Palenchar
& Scott LLP (Chicago, IL)

Melissa Foster Bird
Partner
Nelson Mullins LLP (Huntington, W. VA.)

Jerry G. Bradford
Associate General Counsel
Alcon Laboratories, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)

Michael K. Brown
Partner
Reed Smith LLP (Los Angeles, CA)

Michael P. Bruyere
Partner
Fields H owell LLP (Atlanta, GA)

Abigail M. Butler
Partner
Baker & Daniels LLP (Fort Wayne, IN)

Steven Casey
Partner
Balch & Bingham LLP (Birmingham, AL)

Mark S. Cheffo
Partner
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
(New York, NY)

Richard Clay
Partner
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP (Louisville, KY)

Lori G. Cohen
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig LLP (Atlanta, GA)

Halli D. Cohn
Partner
King & Spalding LLP (Atlanta, GA)

Greg Dadika
Assistant General Counsel, Litigation
C.R. Bard (Murray H ill, NJ)

William B. Dodero
Senior Counsel
Bayer (Wayne, NJ)

James Doran
Partner
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP
(Nashville, TN)

David L. Douglass
Partner
Shook H ardy LLP (Washington, D.C)

David E. Dukes
Partner
Nelson Mullins LLP (Columbia, S.C.)

Mary Eaton
Partner
Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP
(New York, NY)

Lauren Freeman-Bosworth
Legal Director
Merck and Co., Inc. (Kenilworth, NJ)

W. Royal Furgeson, Jr.
JPML Multidistrict Panel Judge
United States District Court
Northern District of Texas

Christopher L. Gaenzle
Assistant General Counsel
Pfizer Inc.

Charlene Gallagher
Industry Representative, Advisory
Commission for Childhood Vaccines
Former Senior Division Counsel
for Vaccines
Wyeth/Pfizer (Berwyn, PA)

Patrick L. Gibson
Assistant Counsel
Office of General Counsel
Merck & Co., Inc. (Kenilworth, NJ)

Kelly Falconer Goldberg
Corporate Counsel
Pfizer Inc. (New York, NY)

Stephen B. Harris
Life Sciences Casualty Manager
Chubb & Son
(Whitehouse Station, NJ)

Chief Judge David R. Herndon
United States District Court
Southern District of Illinois

Hon. John G. Heyburn II
Chairman
United States Judicial Panel
on Multidistrict Litigation

.Michael X. Imbroscio
Partner
Covington & Burling LLP
(Washington, DC)

Jerry Jabbour
Senior V. P., Head of Global Legal Affairs
& U.S. General Counsel
Wockhardt (Parsippany, NJ)

Christy Jones
Partner
Butler Snow O’Mara Stevens & Cannada
PLLC (Jackson, MS)

The Honorable David A. Katz
United States District Court
Northern District of Ohio

Christopher M. Keefer
Corporate Counsel and Director
Biomet (Warsaw, IN)

Matthew Keenan
Partner
Shook H ardy LLP (Kansas City, MO)

Katharine R. Latimer
Partner
Hollingsworth LLP (Washington, DC)

John P. Lavelle, Jr.
Partner
Morgan Lewis LLP (Philadelphia, PA)

Joseph Leghorn
Partner
Nixon Peabody LLP (Boston, MA)

Diane E. Lifton
Partner
Hughes H ubbard & Reed LLP
(New York, NY)

Mary-Olga Lovett
Co-Managing Shareholder
Houston Office
Greenberg Traurig LLP (Houston, TX)

Patricia Lowry
Partner
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.
(West Palm Beach, FL)

Fred T. Magaziner
Partner
Dechert LLP (Philadelphia, PA)

Lisa Martinez-Wolmart
Legal Director, Litigation
Merck & Co., Inc. (Kenilworth, NJ)

Jason D. Maxwell
Vice President &
Associate General Counsel–Litigation
Cardinal Health (McGaw Park, IL )

Monique Hunt McWilliams
Assistant General Counsel
Eli Lilly and Company
(Indianapolis, IN)

The Honorable Sandra Mazer Moss
Coordinating Judge, Complex Litigation
Center, Court of Common Pleas
Philadelphia

George Ng
Senior Corporate Counsel
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(Irvine, CA)

Sarah M. Padgitt
Senior Counsel
Baxter H ealthcare Corporation
(Deerfield, IL).

Michael Panagrossi
Associate General Counsel
Purdue Pharma (Stamford, CT)

Robb Patryk
Partner
Hughes H ubbard & Reed LLP
(New York, NY)

Marla S. Persky
Senior Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary
Boehringer Ingelheim USA Corporation
(Ridgefield, CT)

Stephen S. Phillips
Special Counsel
Medtronic, Inc. (Fridley, MN)

Marc A. Polk
Associate General Counsel/Litigation
Covidien (Mansfield, MA)

Christine M. Riley
Litigation Counsel
Taro Pharmaceuticals (Hawthorne, NY)

Daniel L. Ring
Partner
Mayer Brown LLP (Chicago, IL)

Dave Rogers
Senior Manager
Ernst & Young LLP (Dallas, TX)

David N. Royster
Assistant General Counsel,
Global Business, Litigation & Risk
Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (Warsaw, IN)

Teresa Cotton Santos
Assistant General Counsel Litigation
Eli Lilly & Company (Indianapolis, IN)

William A. Scharff Jr.
Vice-President
Assistant General Counsel
Chief Litigation Counsel
Allergan Inc. (Irvine, CA)

Kim M. Schmid
Managing Partner, Minneapolis
Bowman and Brooke LLP
(Minneapolis, MN)

Paul W. Schmidt
Partner
Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, DC)

Rene L. Siemens
Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
(Los Angeles, CA)

Richard W. Silbert
Vice President
Associate General Counsel
Purdue Pharma L.P. (Stamford, CT)

Daniel Torpey
Partner
Ernst & Young LLP (Dallas, TX)

Hon. John R. Tunheim
U.S. District Court
District of Minnesota

Ralph S. Tyler
Chief Counsel
FDA (Rockville, MD)

Sonia M. Valdes
Assistant Vice President Life Sciences
Chubb & Son (Warren, NJ)

Erica Visokey
Assistant Counsel
Stryker (Mahwah, NJ)

James W. Weller
Partner
Nixon Peabody LLP (Jericho, NY)

David Wise
V.P. & General Counsel
Cyberonics (Houston, TX)