Leadership Award
The FDLI Distinguished Service and Leadership Awards have a long history of recognizing individuals from the food and drug law community for their contributions to the field. The awards will be presented at the FDLI Annual Conference.
2016/2017 Winners
Ed Basile retired from the firm of King & Spalding in 2016, after 30 years of service. At King & Spalding, he served as Chair of the firm’s FDA & Healthcare Practice and on the firm’s Policy Committee. Mr. Basile also worked in FDA’s Chief Counsel’s Office from 1975-1985.
First serving as FDA Associate Commissioner for Planning, and later joining CDER as Director of the Office of Strategic Programs, Dr. Mullin has continually worked to modernize regulatory operations and strategically position the agency the for future. She has served in a variety of roles including as FDA lead negotiator in the past 4 cycles of PDUFA reauthorization and the past 2 cycles of BSUFA, leading the FDA delegation to ICH negotiating the future structure and operation of international regulatory harmonization, and initiating and leading FDA’s Patient Focused Drug Development effort. Since joining FDA Dr. Mullin has received recognition for her work including the SES Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service in 2006 and the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service in 2011.
As a Georgetown law student working with Professor Joe Page and for consumer groups, Tony Young successfully petitioned FDA to reduce lead in household paint and to mandate cosmetic ingredient labeling on cosmetics; and unsuccessfully to require drug companies to notify DES Moms, based on Dr. Herbst’s pioneering research, about the cancer risk posed to their female offspring. As a lawyer, Tony was trained to analyze by Selma Levine, a pioneer FDA lawyer, and to write by Joel Hoffman, and to think broadly by his other colleagues at Wald, Harkrader and Ross. For the last thirteen years, Tony has been a partner at Kleinfeld, Kaplan and Becker, where he counsels herbal and other dietary supplement companies and the herbal trade association, and continues to work on the defense of two 35 year old chemical waste disposal cases – because it is good for a lawyer to have two specialties.2015 Winners
Pat Furlong
Founding President and CEO, Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy
David J. Horowitz
Deputy General Counsel, Department of Health and Human Services
Philip Katz
Partner, Hogan Lovells
Karen Midthun
Former Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA
Past Award Recipients
- 2014 – Elizabeth (Betsy) Anderson; William K. Hubbard; Leslie Kux; Peter Safir
- 2013 – Jane A. Axelrad; Jeffrey N. Gibbs; Kay Holcombe; Richard Kingham
- 2012 – Minnie Baylor-Henry; Alan Bennett; Thomas O. Henteleff; John M. Taylor III
- 2011 – F. Alan Andersen; Deborah M. Autor; Robert P. Brady; Eugene M. Thirolf, Jr.
- 2010 – Kate Beardsley; Michael Landa*; Bruce Silverglade; Mike Taylor
- 2009 – Donald O. Beers*; Arthur N. Levine; Elizabeth H. Dickinson; Marlene K. Tandy; Geoffrey M. Levitt; Nancy L. Buc; Murray M. Lumpkin; Sanford A. Miller
- 2008 – Susan Alpert; Eugene Lambert; Matthew Weinberg; Janet Woodcock
- 2007 – Ron M. Johnson; Suzanne White Junod; Martin J. Levitas; Eugene M. Pfeifer
- 2006 – Joseph V. Rodricks; Nancy Singer; Ann H. Wion; William W. Vodra
- 2005 – Eve E. Bachrach; Lester M. Crawford; Mark Novitch; William B. Schultz
- 2004 – Eric Blumberg; Anthony C. Celeste; Bruce N. Kuhlik*; Stephen H. McNamara
- 2003 – J. Paul Hile; Paul M. Hyman; Patrick M. McLain; Robert M. Spiller, Jr.
- 2002 – Frederick H. Degnan; Christopher L. Hagenbush; Daniel L. Michels; Robert J. Temple
- 2001 – Joseph A. Levitt; Richard A. Merrill; Michael P. Peskoe; Myron S. Weinberg
- 1999 – Joel E. Hoffman, Linda R. Horton, Wayne L. Pines, Kristine A. Rapp
- 1998 – Gary L. Yingling
- 1997 – Richard M. Cooper
- 1996 – Stuart J. Land
- 1995 – Peter Barton Hutt
- 1994 – Alan H. Kaplan
- 1993 – George M. Burditt
* denotes nominated but prior winner