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Inaugural Biomedical and Health Law Industry and Compliance Conference, Sept 21, 2011: IU School of Law-Indianapolis launches its new Biomedical and Health Industry Law and Compliance Program with an inaugural conference on law and compliance, with special emphasis on emerging compliance trends, fraud and abuse, enforcement and pharmaceutical and manufacturing issues. Keynote Speaker: Joyce R. Branda.
Speaker: Joyce R. Branda
Location: Wynne Courtroom and Conour Atrium, Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York Street, Indianapolis, IN
Contact: Carsandra Knight (calknigh@iupui.edu)
Presented by the Hall Center for Law & Health at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis.
CLE: 6.0 hours (including 1.0 hours of Ethics credit)
Cost: Government Attorneys ($50) Private Attorneys ($100)
The Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis and its Hall Center for Law and Health are launching a major initiative in biomedical and health industry compliance law. The school has the expertise to provide outstanding education to the growing group of health lawyers and professionals pursuing careers in health care compliance law.
This initiative will offer expanded courses and clinical education offerings in the compliance field and develop a certificate program in health law with a specialty in biomedical and health industry compliance law by 2012. This specialty curriculum will be established within the existing Health Law Curriculum and the existing track in the law school’s LLM for Health Law, Policy and Bioethics.
To launch this program, we are convening an Inaugural Biomedical and Health Industry Law and Compliance Conference on September 21, 2011 at the law school. The focus of the conference is law and compliance, with special emphasis on emerging compliance trends, fraud and abuse, enforcement and pharmaceutical and manufacturing issues.
» Agenda (DOC) | Brochure (PDF) | Online Registration
Keynote: Health Care Reform and Health Care Fraud Enforcement
Joyce R. Branda is Director of the Fraud Section of the Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, where she supervises civil fraud matters and federal litigation under the False Claims Act and other laws. Since joining the Civil Division in 1982, she served first as a trial Attorney, then Assistant Director and finally Deputy Director of the section before her appointment in 2007 to her present position. In 2001, she received a Presidential Meritorious Executive Award as well as the Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Service. She has lectured extensively and appeared on panels on health care fraud, procurement fraud and on the False Claims Act and civil enforcement.
Students wishing to attend this event - or anyone with questions about registration and/or payment - should contact Carsandra Knight at calknigh@iupui.edu in the CLH office.
