This conference brings together various perspectives on the topics:

• Origins of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009
• The statute's key provisions and challenges facing FDA
• The scientific basis for tobacco regulation
• Legal issues raised by the legislation and in pending litigation
• Regulatory challenges

Who Should Attend?
Food and drug lawyers and consultants, public interest groups, non-food and drug lawyers involved in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation of tobacco products.

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Credits
Pending state approvals, CLEs will be awarded.

Registration Fees
Early Bird Rate (Received before Monday, October 12, 2009)
$645 Member
$1,070 Non-member
$470 Academics & Government
$200 Student

Regular Rate (Received after Monday, October 12, 2009)
$745 Member
$1,145 Non-member
$545 Academics & Government
$200 Student

Special CD Price!
Purchase the CD set for just $85 with your registration. To receive the special price, CDs must be purchased at the time of registration. Offer limited to one CD set per registrant. In order to use this CD, your portable CD player or computer player must be able to support the MP3 format. Shipping & handling charges will apply.

Tax: CD orders shipped to Washington, DC and Maryland addresses will be charged 6% sales tax.

Please contact Customer Service at (800) 956-6293 or (202) 371-1420,
or by e-mail at service@fdli.org, if you have any questions about your conference registration or CD order.

Faculty
Sheldon T. Bradshaw, Partner and Co-Chairman, Food and Drug Practice,
Hunton & Williams LLP
Nancy L. Buc, Partner, Buc & Beardsley, LLP
Richard M. Cooper, Partner, Williams & Connolly LLP
Fred H. Degnan, Partner, King & Spalding, LLP
Gio Batta Gori, MD, Fellow, The Health Policy Center
Lewis A. Grossman, PhD, JD, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Scholarship, Washington College of Law, American University, and, Of Counsel,
Covington & Burling LLP
Coleen E. Klasmeier, Partner, Head of the FDA Regulatory Practice, Sidley Austin LLP
Arthur N. Levine, Senior Counsel, Arnold & Porter LLP
William A. McGrath, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP
Matthew L. Myers, JD, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Steven C. Parrish, Founder, Steve Parrish Consulting Group, LLC
Wayne L. Pines, President, Regulatory Services and Healthcare, APCO Worldwide
William B. Schultz, Partner, Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP
Peter G. Shields, MD, Professor of Medicine and Oncology  and Deputy Director, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center
Jeffrey J.  Teitz, Chief Counsel for Policy, Committee on Health, Education, Labor,
and Pensions, U.S. Senate
Michael J. Thun, MD, MS, Vice President Emeritus, Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society
Mitchell Zeller, JD, Vice President for Policy and Strategic
Communications, Pinney Associates
Allison M. Zieve, Director, Public Citizen Litigation Group

 

7:30-8:30 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:40 a.m.
FDLI Welcome and Announcements

I. Conference Overview and Origins of the Legislation

Richard M. Cooper, Partner, Williams & Connolly LLP

and

William B. Schultz, Partner, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

Refreshment Break

II. Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009.  What are the Statute's Key Provisions and What are the Challenges Facing FDA?

Moderated by:
Lewis A. Grossman, PhD, JD, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Scholarship, Washington College of Law, American University, and, Of Counsel,
Covington & Burling LLP

Speakers:
Sheldon T. Bradshaw, Partner and Co-Chairman, Food and Drug Practice,
Hunton & Williams LLP
Matthew L. Myers, JD, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Steven C. Parrish, Founder, Steve Parrish Consulting Group, LLC
Jeffrey J.  Teitz, Chief Counsel for Policy, Committee on Health, Education, Labor,
and Pensions, U.S. Senate
Mitchell Zeller, JD, Vice President for Policy and Strategic Communications,
Pinney Associates
                                   
12 Noon-1:15 p.m.
Lunch

III. Scientific Basis for Regulation of Tobacco

Moderated by:
William A. McGrath, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP

Speakers:
Gio Batta Gori, DSc, MPH, ATS, Fellow, The Health Policy Center
Michael J. Thun, MD, MS, Vice President Emeritus Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society

Refreshment Break

IV. Important Legal Issues Raised by the Legislation and in Pending Litigation

Moderated by:
Wayne L. Pines, President, Regulatory Services and Healthcare, APCO Worldwide

Speakers:
Coleen E. Klasmeier, Partner, Head of the FDA Regulatory Practice, Sidley Austin LLPAllison M. Zieve, Staff Attorney, Public Citizen Litigation Group

V. Regulatory Challenges

Moderated by:
Bill Schultz

Speakers:
Nancy L. Buc, Partner, Buc & Beardsley, LLP
Fred H. Degnan, Partner, King & Spalding LLP
Arthur N. Levine, Senior Counsel, Arnold & Porter LLP                 
Mitch Zeller

5:15 p.m.
Concluding Remarks and Adjournment

 

Event Location
The Madison Hotel
1177 15th St. NW
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 862-1600
Visit the hotel's website

Room Rate
$259 single/double + applicable taxes
Please call the hotel and identify yourself as an FDLI/Food and Drug Law Institute/
Tobacco conference attendee to receive the rate.

Reservation Cut-Off October 5, 2009

Check-in 3 pm
Check-out 12 noon

Directions via Metro

Orange/Blue Line: Take the Orange or the Blue Line to McPherson Square Metro station and exit through the White House exit to McPherson Square Park located at L Street and 15th Street. Cross I Street and walk up 15th Street, cross L Street but continue to walk up 15th Street. The Madison Hotel will be on your right.

Red Line: Take the Red Line to Farragut North and walk up K Street. Make a left onto 15th and proceed approximately 1.5 blocks to The Madison Hotel on the right hand side.

View more directions from the hotel's website.