Speakers
Advisory Board:
Christine Bellon
Senior Vice President General Counsel
FORMA Therapeutics, Inc. (Watertown, MA)
Deborah A. Logan
Associate General Counsel
EMD Serono, Inc. (Rockland, MA)
Donna M. Meuth
Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property
Eisai Inc. (Andover, MA)
Mary Z. Monovoukas
VP, Chief Global Regulatory & Privacy Counsel
Boston Scientific (Marlborough, MA)
Elena Rossano
Senior Director, Franchise Counsel
Celgene Corporation (Summit, NJ)
Marianne Slivkova
Director – Legal
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (Ardsley, NY)
Co-Chairs:
Elona Kogan
Former General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Government Relations
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, MA)
Gael Tisack
Deputy General Counsel -- IP
Olympus Corporation of The Americas (Southborough, MA)
Lori Cohen
Shareholder and Chair Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care Litigation Practice
Greenberg Traurig, LLP (Atlanta, GA)
Speaking Faculty:
Erin J.D. Austin
Attorney
Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto (New York, NY)
Alane Barnes
Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Raleigh, NC)
Christine Bellon
Senior Vice President General Counsel
FORMA Therapeutics, Inc. (Watertown, MA)
Sara Miron Bloom
Assistant United States Attorney
United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts (Boston, MA)
Sandra A. Bresnick
Partner, Co-Chair Global Life Sciences Practice
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP (Boston, MA & New York, NY)
Cathy Brixen
MPD Global Contracts Function Leader
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Flagstaff, AZ)
Delphine W. Knight Brown
Partner
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP (New York, NY)
Hon. Allison D. Burroughs
U.S. District Court Judge
District of Massachusetts (Boston, MA)
Kellie B. Combs
Partner
Ropes & Gray (Washington, DC)
Eve Costopoulos
Of Counsel
Loeb & Loeb LLP (New York, NY)
Carol Pitzel Cruz
Partner
Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP (Seattle, WA)
Rhiannon I. D’Agostin
Shareholder
Polsinelli PC (Denver, CO)
Gail L. Daubert
Partner
Reed Smith LLP (Washington, DC)
Rosa V. Estrella
Associate General Counsel LATAM
Astellas (Northbrook, IL)
Natalie Furney
General Counsel – Lilly Oncology
Eli Lilly and Company (Indianapolis, IN)
Kathleen Gersh
Senior Counsel
Loeb & Loeb LLP (New York, NY)
Halley E. Gilbert
Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Officer
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, MA)
Tara K. Giunta
Partner, Litigation Department
Paul Hastings LLP (Washington, DC)
Karen A. Gledhill
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Fresenius Medical Care North America (Waltham, MA)
Megan E. Grossman
Shareholder
Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd. (Philadelphia, PA)
Tamara Joseph
General Counsel
Enzyvant
Yoon Kang
Partner
Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh (Toronto, ON)
Hon. Tanya R. Kennedy
Supreme Court Justice
Supreme Court, New York County, Civil Term (New York, NY)
Diane Lifton
Co-Chair of the Life Sciences and Product Liability Groups, and Co-Chair of Diversity and Inclusion
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP (New York, NY)
Deborah A. Logan
Associate General Counsel
EMD Serono, Inc. (Rockland, MA)
Cara Z. Lowen
VP and Chief IP Counsel
Bioverativ, a Sanofi company (Waltham, MA)
Jeny Maier
Partner
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP (Washington, DC)
Zoya Marriott
Principal
Cornerstone Research (Boston, MA)
Gina M. Mazzariello
Vice President, Human Pharma Business Law
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Ridgefield, CT)
Jennifer H. McGee
Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. (Rockville, MD)
Patricia Kavee Melick
Partner
Wiggin & Dana LLP (Stamford, CT)
Donna M. Meuth
Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property
Eisai Inc. (Andover, MA)
Dr. Christine Siegwarth Meyer
Managing Director
NERA Economic Consulting (White Plains, NY)
Mercedes Meyer, Ph.D.
Partner
Drinker Biddle LLP (Washington, DC)
Mary Z. Monovoukas
VP, Chief Global Regulatory & Privacy Counsel
Boston Scientific (Marlborough, MA)
Amy Nelson, Ph.D.
Associate Solicitor
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Alexandria, VA)
Sapna W. Palla
Partner
Wiggin & Dana LLP (New York, NY)
Karah Parschauer
EVP, General Counsel
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical (Novato, CA)
Jennifer L. Porter
Partner
Pepper Hamilton LLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Lesley Reynolds
Partner
Reed Smith LLP (Washington, DC)
Melanie R. Rupert
Partner, Life Sciences IP Litigation Global Co-Chair, Talent Development
Paul Hastings (New York, NY)
Irena Royzman, Ph.D.
Partner
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP (New York, NY)
Jennifer Santos
Head of Global Corporate Compliance Operations
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Boston, MA)
Mildred Segura
Partner
Reed Smith (Los Angeles, CA)
Prajakta A. Sonalker, Ph.D.
Attorney
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto (New York, NY)
Sheila N. Swaroop
Partner
Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP (Irvine, CA)
Ailis Tweed-Kent, M.D.
Founder & CEO
Cocoon Biotech Inc. (Cambridge, MA)
Laura A. Vogel
Partner
Barclay Damon, LLP (Boston, MA)
MaCharri Vorndran-Jones
Assistant General Patent Counsel
Eli Lilly and Company (Indianapolis, IN)
Ana C. Ward
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Chief of Compliance
Ovid Therapeutics Inc. (New York, NY)
