Press Release: Second Annual Summit on Disclosure, Transparency and Aggregate Spend for Drug, Device and Biotech Companies Features What's Next for the States
  • A Hybrid Conference, Internet Event and Training Tool
  • March 3 - 5, 2010
  • Onsite at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, Washington, DC
  • Online In Your Own Office or Home live via the Internet with 24/7 Access for Six Months
  • www.DisclosureSummit.com
PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 800-503-0112
Email: registration@hcconferences.com
Website: www.DisclosureSummit.com

FEATURING WHAT'S NEXT WITH THE STATES
On Thursday, March 4, 2010 the Summit will offer a session What's Next for the States: Pushing the Envelope on Disclosure and Gift Bans featuring:


Julie Brill, Esq.
Senior Deputy Attorney General, Chief, Consumer Protection Division, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, NC

Allan Coukell
Director of Policy, Prescription Project, Winner, 2007 Edward R. Murrow Award, Boston, MA

Melissa J. Lopes, Esq.
Deputy General Counsel, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, MA

George Till, MD
State Legislator, Vermont, Jericho, VT

Jack T. Tanselle
Director, Navigant Consulting, Inc., Chicago, IL (Moderator)
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WASHINGTON DC USA -- CME UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- JANUARY 20, 2010: The National Disclosure Summit, www.DisclosureSummit.com, to be held on March 3 - 5, 2010 at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel in Washington, DC today announced that it will offer a session on What's Next for the States: Pushing the Envelope on Disclosure and Gift Bans.





SECOND ANNUAL SUMMIT ON DISCLOSURE, TRANSPARENCY AND AGGREGATE SPEND FOR DRUG, DEVICE AND BIOTECH COMPANIES
March 3 - 5, 2010

Onsite:
Renaissance Washington DC Hotel

Online:
Live and Archived for 6 Months

SUMMIT GRANTORS

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NEWLY CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Mary E. Riordan, Esq.
Senior Counsel, Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, Office of Inspector General,US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

BROCHURE NOW AVAILABLE
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TOPICS COVERED
PRECONFERENCE: DISCLOSURE BOOT CAMP

  • Understanding the Forces Driving Disclosure: State Legislators, MedPAC, US Congress: The Sunshine Act, State Enforcers, OIG, Settlements and CIAs
  • Introduction to Existing State Disclosure Laws and Regulations: Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Vermont, Washington, DC and West Virginia
  • Aggregate Spend 101: The Nuts and Bolts of an Aggregate Spend Program

    THE SUMMIT

  • How Disclosure and Transparency are Reshaping Pharmaceutical and Device Marketing and Compliance
  • Update on the Physician Payments Sunshine Act
  • Pushing the Envelope: What's Next for the States?
  • The Evolving Role of the OIG
  • How Disclosure Will Reshape State and Federal Enforcement Initiatives
  • Early Lessons from Lilly and Merck's Initial Public Disclosures
  • The Physician-Industry Relationship: Flaws and Solutions
  • How to Manage New Clinical Trial Disclosure Requirements
  • Capturing the Right Information and Ensuring Its Integrity
  • Benchmarking Data: Comparing Your Practices to Those of Your Peers
  • Industry Disclosure Best Practice Roundtable

  • DISCLOSURE TRAINING PROGRAM

    THE DISCLOSURE SUMMIT IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MIKE BIGELOW (1967 - 2009)

    Former Assistant General Counsel at Eli Lilly




    SECOND ANNUAL SUMMIT ON DISCLOSURE, TRANSPARENCY AND
    AGGREGATE SPEND FOR DRUG, DEVICE AND BIOTECH COMPANIES
    A Pharma Congress Conference
    March 3 - 5, 2010

    ONSITE
    Renaissance Washington DC Hotel
    Washington, DC


    OR
    ONLINE
    In your own office or home live via the Internet
    with 24/7 access for six months


    CO CHAIRS

    Eve Costopoulos
    Vice President, Corporate Compliance, Schering-Plough Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ

    Jonathon L. Kellerman
    Principal, Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Advisory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Florham Park, NJ

    Daniel A. Kracov, Esq.
    Partner, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC

    Paul J. Silver
    Managing Director, Huron Consulting Group, LLC, Atlanta, GA

    Jack T. Tanselle
    Director, Navigant Consulting, Inc., Chicago, IL

    Michael Varlotta
    Senior Director, Department of Medical Education, Medical Affairs, Centocor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA
    FEDERAL AND STATE POLICY MAKERS

    Christopher J. Armstrong, Esq.
    Investigative Counsel, Committee on Finance, US Senate, Staff, Senator Charles Grassley, Ranking Member, Washington, DC

    Jack Mitchell
    Chief of Oversight and Investigations, Special Committee on Aging, US Senate, Staff, Senator Herb Kohl (D/WI), Washington, DC


    George Till, MD
    State Legislator, Vermont, Underhill, VT
    FEDERAL AND STATE PROSECUTORS AND REGULATORS

    Julie Brill, Esq.
    Senior Deputy Attorney General, Chief, Consumer Protection Division, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, NC


    Melissa J. Lopes, Esq.
    Deputy General Counsel, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, MA

    Mary E. Riordan, Esq.
    Senior Counsel, Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, Office of Inspector General, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

    James G. Sheehan, Esq.
    New York State Medicaid, Inspector General, Former Associate United States Attorney, US Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Albany, NY


    Gerald Sullivan, Esq.
    Assistant United States Attorney, US Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
    POLICY EXPERTS

    Guy M. Chisolm, III, PhD
    Director, Innovation Management and Conflict of Interest Program, Vice Chairman, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

    Allan Coukell
    Director of Policy, Prescription Project, Winner, 2007 Edward R. Murrow Award, Boston, MA

    Bernard Lo, MD
    Professor of Medicine and Director Program in Medical Ethics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Chair, Committee on Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice; Institute of Medicine, San Francisco, CA

    Frank W. LoGerfo, MD
    William V. McDermott Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    James Roosevelt, Jr., Esq.
    President and Chief Executive Officer, Tufts Health Plan, Former Associate Commissioner for Retirement Policy, US Social Security Administration, Boston, MA

    Thomas P. Stossel, MD
    Director, Translational Medicine Division, Senior Physician, Hematology Division, American Cancer Society, Professor of Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    COMPLIANCE PROFESSIONALS AND INHOUSE COUNSEL

    Diane Cruz-Burke, Esq.
    Assistant General Counsel, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN



    Kevin T. Gordon
    Associate Director, Application and Data Services, Cephalon, Frazer, PA




    Jacqueline K. Huber
    Corporate Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Biomet, Inc., Warsaw, IN

    Beth Margerison
    Associate Director, Ethics and Compliance, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ

    Brian S. McGowan, PhD, CCMEP
    Senior Director, Independent Medical Education, Pfizer, Collegeville, PA



    Jeffrey S. Paden
    Compliance Officer, GlaxoSmithKline North America, Durhan, NC


    Heather Reilly Powell, Esq.
    Director, Compliance Training and Reporting, Daiichi Sankyo, Inc., Former Associate Director, Global Compliance, Cephalon, Inc., Parsippany, NJ

    Geralyn Ritter
    Vice President, Global Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility, Merck & Co., Inc., Former Senior VP, International Affairs, PhRMA, White Plains, NY

    Trudy J. Seeley, Esq.
    Compliance Manager, State Law Compliance, and US Corporate Compliance, sanofi-aventis, Bridgewater, NJ




    Betsy Van Hecke
    Vice President Ethics and Compliance, MedTronic Spinal and Biologics, Minneapolis, MN

    A PANEL OF COMPLIANCE TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS

    Michael Bell, Esq.
    President, R-Squared, Princeton Junction, NJ



    Mitch Chi
    Senior Vice President Sales, Health Market Science, King of Prussia, PA




    Kim Life, Esq.
    Principal, Life Compliance Solutions, Former Associate Director, Business Conduct, Gilead Sciences, San Francisco, CA (Moderator)

    John Patrick Oroho, Esq.
    Executive Vice President, Porzio Pharmaceutical Services, Principal, Porzio, Bromberg & Newman PC, Morristown, NJ

    Don Soong
    Senior Director, Compliance Solutions Development, Cegedim Dendrite, Bedminster, NJ
    ADVISORS AND LEGAL COUNSEL

    Eric M. Baim, Esq.
    Associate, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC

    John T. Bentivoglio, Esq.
    Partner, Skadden Arps LLP, Former Special Counsel for Healthcare Fraud and Chief Privacy Officer, US Department of Justice, Washington, DC

    Jennifer Colapietro
    Director, Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Advisory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Florham Park, NJ

    Daniel F. Donovan, III, Esq.
    Partner, Government Advocacy & Public Policy Practice Group , King & Spalding, Former Senior Investigative Counsel to Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-IA), Committee on Finance, US Senate, Washington, DC

    Michael N. Druckman, Esq.
    Partner, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC

    Sarah K. Giesting, Esq.
    Associate, Epstein Becker & Green, New York, NY

    Jeffrey L. Handwerker, Esq.
    Partner, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC



    Marci Juneau
    Manager, Life Sciences Advisory Services, Huron Consulting Group, Atlanta, GA

    William A. Sarraille, Esq.
    Partner, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Washington, DC

    Thomas Sullivan
    President and Founder, Rockpointe Corporation, Columbia, MD

    Manny Tzavlakis
    Director, Life Sciences Advisory Services, Huron Consulting Group, New York, NY

    Jon Wilkenfeld, MBA
    President, Potomac River Partners, Vienna, VA
    THE TIME IS NOW FOR NEW, EFFICIENT AND COST EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVES TO TRADITIONAL LEARNING APPROACHES

    A variety of forces - the nation's economic crisis, costly and difficult air travel, the mandate for cost efficiency in healthcare, the proliferation of greater Internet bandwidth, the emergence of the popularity of online video via You Tube, and the explosion of online training in the health sector - has come together to create both a dramatic need and an extraordinary opportunity for innovative approaches to sharing new ideas and best practices. This Summit offers not only traditional conference attendance, but also to opportunity to attend the event live and archived online.

    How can we be expected to reform the nation's health system if we can not reform the way we do our own business?


    CONTENT OPTIONS
    TRADITIONAL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
    Register for Preconference Disclosure Summit Boot Camp and/or Conference.

    DISCLOSURE TRAINING PROGRAM
    The Disclosure Summit is offering a Disclosure Training Program in the form of an optional course within the conference for attendees wishing to take a deeper dive into the Summit's subject matter. The Program requirements are:
    • Completion of preconference readings - Click here to review pre-course reading
    • Completion of five online course modules on Disclosure prepared by Arnold & Porter and Huron Consulting - Click here to review
    • Consideration of a series of preconference questions - Click here to review preconference questions
    • Attend Preconference Disclosure Summit Boot Camp either in person or online
    • Attend Summit either in person or online
    • Successful completion of a post-conference online examination - Click here to take sample examination.

    Attendees who successfully complete Program requirements will receive a certificate of completion.


    PARTICIPATION OPTIONS
    TRADITIONAL ONSITE ATTENDANCE
    Simply register, travel to the conference city and attend in person.

    Pros: subject matter immersion; professional networking opportunities; facility interaction

    LIVE AND ARCHIVED INTERNET ATTENDANCE
    Watch the conference in live streaming video over the Internet and at your convenience at any time 24/7 for the six months following the event.

    The archived conference includes speaker videos and coordinated PowerPoint presentations.

    Pros: Live digital feed and 24/7 Internet access for next six months; Accessible in office, at home or anywhere worldwide with Internet access; Avoid travel expense and hassle; No time away from the office







    INTERNET INTERFACE SAMPLE

    Click here for a sample stream
    THE GROUP REGISTRATION/ONLINE TRAINING ALTERNATIVE
    By arranging to license online group access to the Summit Disclosure Summit Training Program, pharmaceutical, device and biotech companies subject to disclosure and aggregate spend requirements can implement company-wide online training programs. The company training coordinator can assign and track online participation. Successful completion of the training can be evidenced by passing the post conference training examination.

    HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A PHARMA COMPANY DISCLOSURE TRAINING PROGRAM
    SUMMIT REGISTRATION

    For Summit registration information, visit www.DisclosureSummit.com/registration.html, email registration@hcconferences.com, or call 800-684-4549.


    SUMMIT EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION

    For sponsorship and exhibit information, visit www.DisclosureSummit.com/promotional/, or contact Joni Lipson, Exhibit Manager, at 215-599-6626 phone, 215-545-8107 fax, or joni.lipson@rmpinc.com.