Life Sciences Compliance Boot Camp
American Conference Institute
Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina - San Diego, CA
06.28.2010
Sheppard Mullin Partner Pamela J. Naughton will be presenting at American Conference Institute's Life Sciences Compliance Boot Camp, June 28-29, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina in San Diego, CA.
Monday, June 28, 2010
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Building and Structuring A Compliance Infrastructure for Life Sciences Companies: Legalities and Ethics
Pamela J. Naughton
(San Diego/Del Mar, CA)
George Ng
Senior Counsel & Director of Intellectual Property, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
(Irvine, CA)
T. Reed Stephens
(Washington, DC)
Presentation topics will include:
- Learning to use the seven elements to design a flexible and global program that can adapt to corporate growth
- thinking of compliance in global terms – i.e., integral and comprehensive as well as potentially international
- Collaborating with existing departments and corporate functions to establish compliance structure and get necessary “buy-in”
- importance of top brass taking ownership of compliance program
- Examining compliance program implementation vis-a-vis existing company structure
- which person/department is the best choice to start a compliance program?
- Legal?
- HR?
- which person/department is the best choice to start a compliance program?
- Appointment of a compliance officer
- understanding why this may be the most critical component of a compliance program
- review of compliance officer provisions in recent CIAs
- special considerations for small to mid-sized companies
- reporting structure for compliance
- to whom should the compliance officer report?
- Board of Directors? Legal?
- and to whom should the CO never report?
- to whom should the compliance officer report?
- Where should the compliance department ultimately be placed?
- can compliance objectives/duties be shared among various departments?
- separation of departmental duties and implementation of safe guards
- dotted line reporting responsibilities
- compliance liaisons
- can compliance objectives/duties be shared among various departments?
- Why compliance should be separate from legal
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