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THIRD ANNUAL MEDICAL DEVICE REGULATORY, REIMBURSEMENT AND COMPLIANCE CONGRESS AT HARVARD
Keeping the Customer Satisfied: When Your 'Customer' Includes FDA, CMS, OIG, Congress, Payers, Providers, and Patients
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Classes Held: Annenberg Hall and Faculty Club
Harvard University
Congress Hotel: Inn at Harvard
March 26 - 28, 2008
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2008 DEVICE CONGRESS MULTIMEDIA
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Watch video of the 2008 National Medical Device Congress on the go. The National Medical Device Congress is Podcasting all general sessions on Video iPOD Nano, a DVD-ROM, or a Flash Drive. Concurrent breakout session audio and all related presentation materials are also included on each multimedia format.
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THE VENUES AT HARVARD
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Classes Held: Harvard University's Annenberg Hall, Lowell Hall, Science Center and the Harvard Faculty Club
Congress Hotel: The Inn at Harvard
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FEATURING PRECONFERENCE SESSIONS
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- Preconference I: Truth-Telling: Where Do We Go Now on Medical Imaging?
- Preconference II: What To Do When the Subpoena Arrives: What You Should Know about Handling a Criminal Investigation
- Preconference III: Writing for Risk Avoidance: How Gobbledygook and Bad Grammar Can Land You in Court-and How to Avoid It
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SPECIAL SESSIONS
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- What is FDA's Focus Today-and its Vision for Tomorrow?
- The CMS Payment-for-Quality Initiative - What Does It Mean For Devices?
- Who Speaks for the Patient?
- Challenges of Academic-Industry Collaboration in the Modern Era
- Compliance: Best Practices Make Perfect
- Compliance and Keeping the Customer Satisfied
- Governmental Medical Device Industry Enforcement Initiatives
- That's What the Government Wants - What Do You Really Need To Do?
- Management Roundtable - Making "The Business Case" to Your CEO
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TRACKS
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- Track 1: The Challenges of Disseminating Information About Medical Devices
- Track 2: Compliance and Fraud & Abuse
- Track 3: Reimbursement
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FEATURED FACULTY
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Joanne Bauer, MBA
President, Kimberly-Clark Health Care, Roswell, GA |
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John T. Bentivoglio, Esq.
Partner, King & Spalding LLP, Former Associate Deputy Attorney General and Special Counsel for Healthcare Fraud, US Department of Justice, Washington, DC |
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Michael Bihari, MD
Former Medical Director, Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, East Falmouth, MA |
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Barbara Blakeney, MS, APRN, BC, ANP
Director, Center for Innovations in Care Delivery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Immediate Past President, American Nurses Association, Boston, MA |
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Ronald W. Dollens
Harold A. "Red" Poling Chair of Business and Government, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Former Chairman, President and CEO, Guidant Corporation, AdvaMed and Healthcare Leadership Counsel |
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John J. Donahue, MBA
Chairman, National Imaging Associates, Rancho Cordova, CA |
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Elazar R. Edelman, MD, PhD
Director, Harvard/MIT Biomedical Engineering Center, Director, Graduate Education in Medical Sciences Program, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA |
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Daniel J. Garen, Esq.
Chief Compliance Officer, Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics, Tarrytown, NY |
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Paul E. Kalb, JD, MD
Partner, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC |
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Larry Kessler
Director, Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories, Center Device Radiological Health Food and Drug Administration and Chair, Global Harmonization Task Force, Silver Spring, MD
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Keith M. Korenchuk, JD, MPH
Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC |
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Daniel A. Kracov, Esq.
Partner and Chair, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Practice, Arnold & Porter, Washnington, DC |
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Paul LaViolette, MBA
Chief Operating Officer, Boston Scientific, Natick, MA |
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Jeffrey C. Lerner, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer, ECRI Institute, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Plymouth Meeting, PA |
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Teri Louden
President, The Louden Network, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC |
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Brette McClellan
Director, Health Policy Government Relations, Alcon Labs, Fort Worth, TX |
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Michael McCulley, Esq.
Assistant General Counsel, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ |
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Laura C. O'Donnell, Esq.
Chief Compliance Officer, Zimmer Holdings Inc., Warsaw, IN
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Philip J. Phillips, MBA
Executive Vice President and Director, Medical Device Practice, Becker & Associates Consulting, Inc., Former Deputy Director, Office of Device Evaluation, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC
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Daniel A. Pelak
President and Chief Executive Officer, InnerPulse, Research Triangle Park, NC
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Randel E. Richner, BSN, MPH
Founder and President, Neocure Group, Former Vice President, Global Government Affairs, Reimbursement, and Outcomes Planning, Boston Scientific Corporation, Washington, DC
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F. David Rollo, MD, PhD
President, CellPoint, Former Chief Medical Officer of Philips Medical Systems, Centennial, CO
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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
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Steve Ubl
President and Chief Executive Officer, AdvaMed, Washington, DC
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Thomas Valuck, MD, MHSA, JD
Medical Officer and Senior Advisor to the Administrator, Director, Special Program Office of Value-Based, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD |
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Myrl Weinberg
President, National Health Council, Chair, International Alliance of Patients' Organizations, Washnington, DC
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Christopher L. White, Esq.
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, AdvaMed, Washington, DC
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Kim A. Williams, MD
Professor of Medicine, Director, Nuclear Cardiology, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
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CONGRESS COCHAIRS
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Ted Acosta, Esq.
Principal, Ernst & Young LLP, Former Assistant Inspector General for Legal Affairs, Office of Insprctor General, Department of Health and Human Services, Paris, France |
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Jennifer Bragg, Esq.
Partner, King & Spalding, Former Assistant Chief Counsel for Enforcement, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC |
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Peter Claude
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Florham Park, NJ |
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Ron Geigle
Partner, Polidais LLC, Washington, DC |
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Stuart S. Kurlander, Esq.
Partner Global Co-Chair, Health Care and Life Sciences Practice Group, Latham & Watkins, Washington, DC |
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Tom Maeder
Executive Director, AdvaMed-MTLI, Washington, DC |
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Stephanie Mensh
Vice President, Reimbursement Policy, The Neocure Group, Former Vice President, Payment and Policy, AdvaMed, Washington, DC |
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Kathleen Meriwether, Esq.
Principal, Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services, Ernst & Young, Former Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Department of Justice, Philadelphia, PA |
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Paul J. Silver
Managing Director, Huron Consulting Group, Atlanta, GA |
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Nancy Singer, Esq.
President, Compliance-Alliance, Former Special Counsel, AdvaMed, Arlington, VA |
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Robin Strongin
President & CEO, Amplify Public Affairs, Washington DC
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2007 DEVICE CONGRESS MULTIMEDIA
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Watch video of the 2007 Device Congress on the go. The Device Congress offers Podcasting of all general sessions on a 30gb Video iPOD, a CD-ROM, or a Flash Drive. Concurrent breakout session audio and all related presentation materials are also included on each multimedia format.
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