Admitted
1979, District of Columbia; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; 1983, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
Duquesne University, J.D., cum laude, 1979
Law School Graduation Year
1979
College
Gannon University, B.S., Pre Medicine, 1969; University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D., Biochemistry, 1974
Memberships
The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association; American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Chemical Society.
Biographical
Member, Duquesne Law Review, 1977-1978. Author: Labeling Biotech Foods: Opening Pandora's Box? 54 Food Technology 38, 2000; Food Biotech Labeling: Trials & Triumphs, 121 Seed Trade News 20, 2000; Drug User Fees and Beyond: The New Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997, 4 Journal of Biotechnology in Healthcare 300 (1998); 1997 U.S. Biotechnology Regulations Handbook, Food and Drug Law Institute; Human Biological Drug Regulation: Past, Present, and Beyond the Year 2000, Food and Drug Journal 123 (1995) (Special Issue Celebrating the Journal's 50th Anniversary); Orphan Drug Trials and Tribulations: Profitability, Patient Ceiling, Market Exclusivity, AIDS, and Biotechnology, 3 Regulatory Affairs 133 (1991); Food Biotechnology Regulation: Overview and Selected Issues, 44 Food Technology 76, 1990; Releases of Organisms into the Environment: Options to Trigger, Exempt Products From Oversight, 13 Chemical Regulation Reporter 1454, 1990; Brave New World: Oversight of Biotechnology into the 21st Century, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Special Report Series on Biotechnology, 1989. Co-Author: Biologics Update, 2 Update Food and Drug Law, Regulation, and Education 4, Food and Drug Law Institute, March/April, 2001; The FDA's regulation of Internet promotion and sales of prescription products, 7 Journal of Commercial Biotechnology 122, 2001 (Special Issue on the Impact of the Internet on the Bioscience Industry); Boon or Threat to International Trade in Biotechnology? 17 Nature Biotechnology 513, 1999; Food Biotechnology - A Scientific Status Summary, 42 Food Technology 133, 1988. Member: United States Department of Agriculture, Advisory Committee on Agriculture Biotechnology; Advisory Board, Biotechnology Law Report; Past Member, Board of Directors, Food and Drug Law Institute; Past Chair, Publications Committee, Food and Drug Law Institute; Biotechnology; Regulatory Law; Food and Drug Law; Agricultural Law; Environmental Law; Technology and Science; Food and Drug Law Journal, 199