| THURSDAY - FEBRUARY 28 |
| 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. |
Registration & Breakfast
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| 8:30 - 9:45 a.m. |
PANEL 1
Year in Review
- John R. Thomas, Partner, Healy Hafemann Magee Thomas (Moderator)
- Claire M. Sylvia, Attorney, Phillips & Cohen LLP
- Stuart F. Delery, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Click Here to hear from moderator John Thomas on what to expect from this panel.
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| 10:00 - 11:15 a.m. |
PANEL 2
Subjectivity: Medical Necessity, Medical Judgment, Science Grants
- Sarah Mary Frazier, Partner, Berg & Androphy (Moderator)
- Tarra DeShields, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Civil Division, District of Maryland, U.S. Department of Justice
- David L. Douglass, Partner, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
- Nola J. Hitchcock Cross, Attorney, Cross Law Firm, S.C.
Click Here to hear from moderator Sarah Frazier on what to expect from this panel.
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| 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. |
PANEL 3
Parallel Civil and Criminal Investigations
- Jonathan W. Haray, Partner, DLA Piper (Moderator)
- Brian P. Hudak, Deputy Chief, Civil Division, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, U.S. Department of Justice
- Mark Kleiman, Lawyer, Law Office of Mark Allen Kleiman
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| 12:45 - 1:45 p.m. |
Keynote Luncheon
Glenn A. Fine, Acting Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense
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| 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. |
PANEL 4
Statistical Sampling and Algorithms
- Ashley W. Hardin, Partner, Williams & Connolly LLP (Moderator)
- Benjamin C. Mizer, Partner, Jones Day
- Andy Mao, Deputy Director, Fraud Section, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice
- Tim Renjilian, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting, Inc.
Click Here to hear from moderator Ashley Hardin on what to expect from this panel.
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| 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. |
PANEL 5
Materiality Issues
- Katherine J. Seikaly, Partner, Reed Smith LLP (Moderator)
- Paul S. Chan, Principal, Bird Marella
- David Finkelstein, Trial Attorney, Fraud Section, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice
- Lesley C. Reynolds, Partner, Reed Smith LLP
- Tejinder Singh, Partner, Goldstein & Russell, P.C.
Click Here to hear from moderator Katherine Seikaly on what to expect from this panel.
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| FRIDAY - MARCH 1 |
| 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. |
Registration & Breakfast
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| 8:30 - 9:45 a.m. |
PANEL 6
CIAs and Compliance Program
- Scott R. Grubman, Partner, Chilivis Cochran Larkins & Bever LLP (Moderator)
- Eliza L. Andonova, Counsel, Hogan Lovells US LLP
- Perham Gorji, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Mary Riordan, General Attorney, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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| 10:00 - 11:15 a.m. |
PANEL 7
Ability to Pay
- Andrew M. Miller, Shareholder, Baron & Budd, P.C. (Moderator)
- Jonathan H. Gold, Trial Attorney, Fraud Section, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice
- William F. Gould, Partner, Holland & Knight LLP
- Daniel R. Miller, Shareholder, Berger Montague PC
- Eileen Zimmer, Senior Financial Analyst, Fraud Section, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Click Here to hear from moderator Andrew Miller on what to expect from this panel.
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| 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. |
PANEL 8
Mediating a Qui Tam Case
- Lee Wallace, Partner, The Wallace Law Firm LLC (Moderator)
- Michael E. Paulhus, Partner, King & Spalding LLP
- Jennifer M. Verkamp, Partner, Morgan Verkamp LLC
- Natalie Waites, Senior Counsel for Health Care Fraud, Fraud Section, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice
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| 12:45 - 1:45 p.m. |
Keynote Luncheon
Michael Granston, Director, Fraud Section, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice
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| 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. |
PANEL 9
Ethics
- Traci L. Buschner, Founding Partner, Guttman, Buschner & Brooks PLLC (Moderator)
- Kathleen Clark, Professor, Washington University School of Law
- Precious M. Gittens, Partner, Hooper Lundy & Bookman PC
- David Wiseman, Senior Trial Counsel, Commercial Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice
Click Here to hear from moderator Traci Buschner on what to expect from this panel.
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| 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. |
PANEL 10
The FCA and Opioids
- Wendy West Feinstein, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (Moderator)
- Jennifer Fountain Connolly, Partner, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP
- Daniel J. Grooms, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, U.S. Department of Justice
- Rebecca J. Hillyer, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
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