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Grassroot
Strategies for Improving Patient Access
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Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008 • 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT • 90 minutes
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Featuring
David
Cassak
Managing Partner
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(moderator)
Stephen
Levin
Executive Editor
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(moderator)
Tom
Tremble
Associate
Vice President,
Government and Regional Affairs
AdvaMed
Valery
E. Gallagher
Director, U.S. State Government
Affairs
Baxter Healthcare
William
Fehrenbach
Director,
State Government Affairs
Medtronic Neuromodulation
Facilitating patient access through education of lawmakers, reform of existing policies, and establishment of new policies can bring significant benefit to both patients and medical device companies.
Join us, in the convenience of your own office, for a thought-provoking analysis of the issues central to your company's success.
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Examples of how medical device companies have successfully influenced legislation at the state level to facilitate patient access to technology
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Strategies used by webinar panelists to help educate elected officials
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How the appropriate legislation can facilitate access while continuing to foster innovation amongst medical device companies
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CEOs and strategic planning executives at medical device firms of all sizes
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CFOs and other financial executives
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Senior executives in sales and marketing & their teams
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Consultants
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Investment bankers
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Venture capitalists
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Buy-side and sell-side research teams
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Legal and other service providers involved in device-industry M&A and financing
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Tom
Tremble As AdvaMed's Associate Vice President of Government and Regional Affairs, Tom Tremble is responsible for state government relations and liaison with state and regional device groups. In directing the state program, he works closely with the state affairs committee to identify, track, and influence priority legislation that would impact patient access to medical technology. Among issues that he is involved with are technology assessment, treatment guidelines, and marketing restrictions. He has also played a major role in the association's involvement in state health care reform, clinical laboratory licensure, facility licensure, and product liability. In addition to state government relations, Mr. Tremble played a key role in establishing the association's political action committee, and has also been involved in activating grassroots advocacy on key federal issues. Prior to coming to AdvaMed, he worked in the U.S. Senate for the Select Committee on the Iran-Contra Affairs and the Arms Control Treaty Office, where he worked with committee staff reviewing the intermediate nuclear forces treaty with the Soviet Union. He also worked as a Legislative Assistant in the Maine Legislature. He is a graduate of the University of Maine with a B.A. in Political Science. |
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Valery
E. Gallagher Valery E. Gallagher is Director, US State Government Affairs for Baxter Healthcare Corp., founded in 1931 and headquartered in Deerfield, IL. Ms. Gallagher and her team advocate and advance the Fortune 250 health care company’s life-saving and life-sustaining state and local public policies. Their work focuses on initiatives for patients with hemophilia, end-stage renal disease, primary immune deficiencies and other chronic diseases, as well as for patients being served in acute care centers. Baxter is a global diversified healthcare company that applies innovative science to develop biotechnology products, specialty therapeutics and medical devices that save and sustain patients’ lives. Ms. Gallagher joined Baxter in 2006 from the inaugural Strategic Health Policy team in Abbott Laboratories’ Pharmaceutical Products Division (PPD). With Abbott since 1997, she was promoted six times to increasing levels of leadership within the State Governmental Affairs team, leaving a post as Regional Director to join PPD in 2005. Ms. Gallagher started her career as a legislative page for the Illinois State Senate Minority Leadership in the summer of 1984. She followed that position with other roles of increasing responsibility with the Connecticut State Senate, US Senate Republican Campaign Committee, and the Lake County, Illinois Republican Party. In addition to her professional experiences, Ms. Gallagher has extensive community involvement. She is proud of her service to the International Republican Institute, Illinois Channel Advisory Board, Illinois Lincoln Series-Excellence in Public Service and is a member of the Board of Directors of Nicasa, a Northern Illinois social service organization. Ms.
Gallagher holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Lake
Forest Graduate School of Management, as well as a Bachelor of Science
degree from Bradley University. |
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William
Fehrenbach William Fehrenbach currently serves as Director, State Government Affairs for Medtronic Neuromodulation, the Business Unit of Medtronic, Inc. which develops and manufactures implantable devices that treat core neurological disorders including chronic intractable pain and movement disorders, as well as more recently gastro/urological disorders. He was first hired by Medtronic Core Neurological in early 2004 and received expanded responsibilities to represent the entire Business Unit in early 2007. Mr. Fehrenbach developed this department and function in order to best ensure that appropriate patient access to these needed therapies was secured and maintained within and among state government health programs and state-based payors. Prior to joining Medtronic, Mr. Fehrenbach was Director, Local, State and Federal Government Affairs, and represented HealthPartners, a Minnesota-based integrated health and dental plan, medical and dental group, medical and dental clinic, safety net hospital and research foundation, for approximately 10 years. Before arriving in Minnesota, Mr. Fehrenbach helped to build the industry advocacy grassroots function for the American Association of Health Plans, and also worked on Capitol Hill for U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) as Assistant Press Secretary and Policy Fellow. He received his Master’s Degree of Health Policy and Social Work in 1994 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1991 from Marquette University. |
