A panel of current and former US Senate, House and administration health care leaders and Squire Sanders health care and legislative experts will discuss and evaluate key breaking legislative and regulatory developments:

• Congressional health care policy and legislation ahead of the 2008 Presidential election
• Imminent Phase III regulations to the Stark Law
• 2008 Physician Fee Schedule reimbursement and fraud and abuse changes
• July 7, 2007 CMS Decision Memorandum on its Clinical Trial Policy National Coverage Determination
• Drug safety bill and follow-on biologics
• Furthering your organization's goals with legislative and regulatory remedies and appropriations

Featured Speakers

• Janet Rehnquist, former Inspector General, US Department of Health and Human Services and founder and principal of The Rehnquist Group, PLLC in Washington DC
• Ilyse Schuman, Chief Counsel, US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
• Lori Rowley, Chief of Staff to US Representative Ralph Regula (R-OH), the ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Labor, Health, Human Services and Education
• Catherine P. Bennett, former vice president of government relations at Pfizer, Inc. for 28 years, now in private practice in Washington DC

Moderator

Louis Stokes, 15-term US Representative and former second-ranking Democrat on House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies and now senior counsel in Squire Sanders'
Washington DC and Cleveland offices

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Health Sciences Practice

• Paul F. Danello, Washington DC
• Scott A. Edelstein, Washington DC and San Francisco

Squire Sanders Public Advocacy, LLC

• Patrick E. O'Donnell, Washington DC

Axela Government Relations LLC

• George Sifakis, founder, president and chief executive officer
• Jonathan Day, vice president of government relations and former chief of staff to US Representative Michael McCaul
  (R-TX)