Advancing the Vaccine Law Dialogue

2023 National Vaccine Law Conference

Pre-conference: September 13 Washington, D.C.

Wanda Filer, MD, MBA, FAAF

Wanda Filer, MD, MBA, FAAF Chief Medical Officer, VaxCare, Past President, American Academy of Family Physicians Bio: Wanda Filer, MD MBA FAAFP is a nationally recognized health and business professional with 30 years of diverse leadership, advocacy, communications and clinical experience. She is Chief Medical Officer for VaxCare, an Orlando based company using innovative business … Read more

Ronda Esaw, JD

Ronda Esaw, JD Labor & Employment Attorney  Bio: Ms. Esaw is a trusted advisor and trial attorney. Her practice focuses on all aspects of the employment relationship, with particular emphasis on employment discrimination litigation in federal and state courts. She represents management clients in cases involving Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the … Read more

Nicholas Diamond, LLM, JD, MBE

Nicholas Diamond, LLM, JD, MBE Partner, Jackson Walker Bio: Nicholas “Nick” Diamond is a Partner at Jackson Walker LLP, based in the firm’s Houston, Texas, office. He is a regulatory lawyer with extensive, international experience counseling clients across the food, healthcare, life sciences, medical device, and technology sectors.   While his practice primarily focuses on … Read more

Maggie Davis, JD, MBE, PMP

Maggie Davis, JD, MBE, PMP Director, State Health Policy, ASTHO Bio: Maggie Davis is the Director of State Health Policy at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). In this role she provides law and policy technical assistance, supports ASTHO’s Executive Leadership Forum and Legislative Liaison Peer Network, and oversees the organization’s state … Read more

Phyllis Arthur

Phyllis Arthur Vice President, Infectious Diseases & Diagnostics Policy at Biotechnology Innovation Organization Bio: Phyllis Arthur is the Vice President for Infectious Diseases and Diagnostics Policy at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO). In this role, she works with member companies in vaccines, molecular diagnostics and bio-defense on policy, legislative and regulatory issues. Prior to joining … Read more

Carla Mouta-Bellum

Carla Mouta-Bellum JD/ PhD, Partner, Arrigo, Lee, Guttman & Mouta-Bellum, LLP Bio: Carla Mouta-Bellum has been a partner of the firm of Arrigo, Lee, Guttman & Mouta-Bellum, LLP, since 2018. She has previously been with Finnegan Henderson, and a Principal Investigator for the Maine Medical Center Research Institute. She received her Juris Doctor from the … Read more

Richard Wilder

Richard Wilder, JD Senior Scholar, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Professor of Practice, University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law  Bio: Richard Wilder started his professional life in engineering and then studied law – with a particular focus on intellectual property law. Over the past two decades his … Read more

Rahul Das

Rahul Das USPTO Office of Policy and International Affairs Rahul Das is a patent attorney with the Office of Policy and International Affairs (OPIA) at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Mr. Das is on the patents team at OPIA and he develops and formulates domestic and international patent policy and provides advice on … Read more

Minna Moezie

Minna Moezie USPTO Office of Policy and International Affairs Ms. Moezie began with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 1992 as a pharmaceutical patent examiner. In 2000, she became a Supervisory Patent Examiner in an art unit examining pharmaceutical patent applications. Ms. Moezie moved to USPTO’s Office of Policy and International Affairs (OPIA) in 2002 to work … Read more