Advancing the Vaccine Law Dialogue
Virtual Conference
- National Vaccine Law Conference: Speakers, Presenters, and Panelists
The 2023 National Vaccine Law Conference has been convened to continue our work of addressing the urgent need for an increased understanding in many sectors of the operations of different aspects of vaccine, vaccination, and immunization law.
Speaking or presenting at the 2023 conference:
Currently scheduled speakers include:
- Brian Dean Abramson, author, Vaccine, Vaccination, & Immunization Law, Adjunct Professor of Vaccine Law, FIU College of Law
- Tommy Acciani, PhD, Director, U.S. Vaccine Policy, Glaxosmithkline
- Michael R. Anderson, MD, Pediatric Critical Care Physician
- Lindsay Androski, Special Counsel to Genevant Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Phyllis Arthur, MBA, Vice President for Infectious Diseases and Diagnostics Policy at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization
- Julia Barnes-Weise, Executive Director, Global Health Innovation Alliance Accelerator
- Daniel Barry, JD, Principal Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
- Mordecai Bell, Program Services Coordinator and Director of Rural Vaccine Confidence Initiative, National Rural Health Association
- Illisa Bernstein, Senior Vice President of Pharmacy Practice and Government Affairs, American Pharmacist Association
- Alexandra A. Bhatti, JD, MPH, Director of U.S. Vaccine Policy at Merck & Co. Inc
- Katherine Bliss, PhD, Senior Fellow and Director, Immunizations and Health Systems Resilience, Global Health Policy Center, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
- Daniel Bosquet, Visiting Associate Professor, Friedman Fellow at the Family Justice Litigation Center, The George Washington University Law School
- Abby Bownas, Partner and Coalition Manager, Adult Vaccine Access Coalition
- Darlene Huang Briggs, JD, MPH, Deputy Director, Act for Public Health Initiative, Network for Public Health Law
- Cathy Burgess, JD, Partner, Alston & Bird
- Heather Burris, ME, Division Chief, District of Columbia Department of Public Health
- Hon. Patricia E. Campbell-Smith, Chief Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims (USCFC)
- Spreeha Choudhury, Associate with Epstein, Becker and Green
- Justin Coen, Partner, Venable LLP
- Robin Cogan, Clinical Coordinator of the School Nurse Program, Rutgers School of Nursing
- Carl Coleman, Professor and Academic Director of Online Learning, Seton Hall Law School
- Brian H. Corcoran, Chief Special Master, United States Court of Federal Claims
- Joni Cover, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives at National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associates
- Rebecca Coyle, Executive Director at American Immunization Registry Association
- Kristina Crane, Chief Strategy Officer at STChealth
- Jim Daniel, MPH, Lead State and Local Public Health at Amazon Web Services
- Maggie Davis, JD, MBE, PMP, Director, State Health Policy, ASTHO
- Cheryl De Pinto, Senior Vice President, Primary Care and Subspecialty Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics
- Nicholas J. Diamond, Esq., Partner, Jackson Walker
- Leah Durant, Owner and Principal Attorney of the Law Offices of Leah V. Durant, PLLC
- Heather Entenmann, US Public Health Engagement Lead, Sanofi
- Ronda B. Esaw, Esq., Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig (Ret.)
- Brent Ewig, Chief Policy and Government Relations Officer, Association of Immunization Managers
- Mark Feinberg, President & CEO, IAVI
- Wanda Filer, Chief Medical Officer, VaxCare, Past President, American Academy of Family Physicians
- Dr. Michelle Fiscus, Chief Medical Officer, Assoc. of Immunization Managers, past Medical Director of the Tennessee Dep’t of Health
- Laura Fox, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University College of Medicine
- Donna Garland, Deputy Associate Administrator for Communications and Marketing at GSA
- Renee Gentry, Director, The George Washington University Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic
- Lynn Goldman, Dean, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University
- Christy Gray, Division of Immunization Director, Virginia Department of Health
- Sonali Gunawardhana, JD, LLM, MPH Assistant General Counsel, Regulatory Cardinal Health
- Sam Halabi, JD, MPhil, Senior Associate Vice-President for Health Policy and Ethics and Professor, Colorado School of Public Health
- Dr. Melinda Morton Hamer, MPH, FACEP, Deputy Director for Operations, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
- Ghazala Hashmi, Member, Virginia State Senate
- Denise M. Hill, Associate Professor, Drake University, Chair of Public Administration
- Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine
- Richard Hughes IV, JD, MPH, Partner, Epstein Becker & Green; Professorial Lecturer in Law, The George Washington University Law School
- Meghan Jendrysik, PhD, Managing Editor, Elsevier, Fellow, NIH
- Charley John, PharmD, Senior Director, Healthcare Policy & Strategy, Walgreen Co.
- Vacheria Keys, Director of Policy & Regulatory Affairs at National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
- David Kim, MD, CAPT, U.S. Public Health Service, Director, National Vaccine Program Division, Office of Infectious Disease & HIV/AIDS Policy, U.S. HHS
- Hon. Clarence K. Lam, MD, State Senator-Maryland General Assembly (District 12)
- Richard Leach, President and CEO, Main Sail Strategies
- Candace Lerman, JD, MS, HCC, Attorney, Adheris Health, Patient Advocate, RareCandace.com
- Ethan Lindenberger, Youth Vaccine Advocate, Director, Ace of Swords
- Jessica Malaty Rivera, Science Communication Lead, The COVID Tracking Collective, The Rockefeller Foundation COVID Tracker
- Brian J. Malkin, JD, Associate General Counsel, Teva Pharmaceuticals
- Dayna Bowen Matthew, Dean, Professor The George Washington University Law School
- Alexa McKinley, JD, Regulatory Affairs Manager, National Rural Health Association
- Andrew Michaels, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center
- Rachel Mitrovich, JD, Director of Global vaccines and Public Policy at Merck
- Kelly Moore, MS, PhD, CEO, Immunize.org
- Emily Michiko Morris, Professor of Law, The University of Akron School of Law
- Spencer Morris, Pharm.D., BCPS, Southeastern Continuing Medical Education Consultants, LLC
- Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
- Dr. René Najera, DrPH, MPH, Director, Public Health Initiatives, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and Editor, History of Vaccines project
- David Nash, Director, LEGAL ONE Foundation for Educational Administration
- Hon. Pauline Newman, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Dr. Richard Pan, Pediatrician, former member of the California State Senate
- Anita Patel, Vice President Pharmacy Services Development, Walgreen Co.
- Heather Pearlman, JD, Deputy Director of the Constitutional and Specialized Torts Branch U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division
- Amy Pisani, MA, CEO, Vaccinate Your Family
- Elizabeth Platt, JD, Director of Research and Operations, Center for Public Health Law Research, Beasley School of Law, Temple University
- Chris Regal, Clinical Innovation, America’s Health Insurance Plans
- Montrece Ransom, JD, MPH, Director, National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training for the National Network of Public Health Institutes
- Julian Ritchey, MBA, Vice President, Head of Public Affairs & Patient Advocacy, US Vaccines, Sanofi
- Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
- Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS, Science Communication Lead, The COVID Tracking Collective, The Rockefeller Foundation COVID Tracker
- Sara Rosenbaum, JD, Professor Emerita, Health Law and Policy, The George Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health
- Ana Santos Rutschman, Professor of Law, Villanova University
- Jeanne Santoli, MD, MPH, Branch Chief, Vaccine Supply and Assurance, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
- Leena Scaria, U.S. Vaccine Public Policy at Merck
- Harald Schmidt, Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Secretary Donna Shalala, PhD, Trustee Professor of Political Science and Health Policy at the University of Miami
- Kasia Shaw, FNP-C, Sr. Director of Medical Respite and Nursing Services, PathForward
- Angela K. Shen, ScD, MPH, Visiting Scientist in the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, retired Captain, US Public Health Services
- Julissa Soto, Commissioner, Health Equity Commission for the Colorado Department of Public Health, CEO and Founder, Julissa Soto Latino Health Equity Consulting
- Lauren Sullivan, JD, Associate General Counsel, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Jennifer Tinney, Program Director, Arizona Partnership for Immunization
- John R. Thomas, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
- Timothy M. Westmoreland, JD, Professor Emeritus, Georgetown Law
- Richard Wilder, Esq., Professor of Clinical Studies at the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law
- Kenneth Williams, MD, PhD, Assistant Commissioner of Clinical Services, Chief Medical Officer, Tennessee Department of Correction
- John D. Winter, Partner, Patterson Belknap
- Mary Winter Subramanian, Clinical Pharmacy Manager/PGY2 Pediatric Residency Director, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
- Chizoba Wonodi, Epidemiologist, leader of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Vaccine Access Center’s immunization support efforts in Nigeria
- Y. Tony Yang, Professor of Health Policy, George Washington University School of Nursing
- Junyung (June) Zhao, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
The 2023 Conference Agenda will be available HERE.
Speaking or presenting at the 2023 conference:
Those currently committed to speak or present at the 2023 National Vaccine Law Conference include:
Author, Vaccine, Vaccination, & Immunization Law, Adjunct Professor of Vaccine Law, FIU College of Law
Special Counsel to Genevant Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Vice President for Infectious Diseases and Diagnostics Policy at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization
Executive Director of the Global Healthcare Innovation Alliances Accelerator (GHIAA)
Program Services Coordinator and Director of Rural Vaccine Confidence Initiative, National Rural Health Association
Senior Vice President of Pharmacy Practice and Government Affairs, American Pharmacist Association
Senior Fellow and Director, Immunizations and Health Systems Resilience, Global Health Policy Center, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
Visiting Associate Professor, Friedman Fellow at the Family Justice Litigation Center, The George Washington University Law School
Clinical Coordinator of the School Nurse Program, Rutgers School of Nursing
Former Chief of Staff for the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
Chief Strategy Officer, Scientific Technologies Corporation; Owner, KL Crane Associates, Inc.
Senior Vice President, Primary Care and Subspecialty Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics
MSPH, Chief Policy and Government Relations Officer, Association of Immunization Managers
Chief Medical Officer, VaxCare, Past President, American Academy of Family Physicians
Chief Medical Officer, Association of Immunization Managers, Member, American Academy of Pediatrics Board of Directors
Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University College of Medicine
Deputy Associate Administrator for Communications and Marketing, Government Services Administration
Lynn Goldman, MD, MPH, MS
Dean, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University
Division of Immunization Director, Virginia Department of Health
Senior Associate Vice-President for Health Policy and Ethics at Colorado State University, Professor at the Colorado School of Public Health, Senior Scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
NVLC Vice-Chair; Associate Professor, Drake University; Attorney, Whitfield & Eddy, PLC
Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor University, Author, “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science – A Scientist’s Warning”
Deputy Director, Act for Public Health Initiative, Network for Public Health Law
Partner, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.; Professorial Lecturer in Law, The George Washington University Law School
U.S. Public Health Service, Director, National Vaccine Program Division, Office of Infectious Disease & HIV/AIDS Policy, U.S. HHS
Science Communication Lead, The COVID Tracking Collective, The Rockefeller Foundation COVID Tracker
Emily Michiko Morris, JD
Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law & Technology, Akron Law School, University of Ohio
Deputy Director for Operations, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, DARPA
Director, Public Health Initiatives, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Editor, History of Vaccines Project, Instructor
David Nash, JD
Director, LEGAL ONE Foundation for Educational Administration
Deputy Director of the Constitutional and Specialized Torts Branch U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division
Director of Research and Operations, Center for Public Health Law Research, Beasley School of Law, Temple University
Julian Ritchey, MBA
Vice President, Head of Public Affairs & Patient Advocacy, US Vaccines, Sanofi
Professor Emerita, Health Law and Policy, The George Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health
Professor of Law, Chair of Litigation, University of California Hastings College of the Law
Branch Chief, Vaccine Supply and Assurance, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
Director of the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Trustee Professor of Political Science and Health Policy at the University of Miami
Visiting Research Scientist, Vaccine Education Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, retired Captain, US Public Health Services
Julissa Soto
Commissioner, Health Equity Commission for the Colorado Department of Public Health, CEO and Founder, Julissa Soto Latino Health Equity Consulting
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
Assistant Commissioner of Clinical Services, Chief Medical Officer, Tennessee Department of Correction
Clinical Pharmacy Manager/PGY2 Pediatric Residency Director, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Professor in Health Policy, Executive Director, Center for Health Policy & Media Engagement at The George Washington University School of Nursing
Assistant Professor/Health Economic Policy Researcher, University of Oklahoma
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