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Alan F. Holmer, President of The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier and more productive lives. The industry invested more than $30 billion in 2001 in discovering and developing new medicines. PhRMA companies are leading the way in the search for new cures.

Edith M. Kallas

Edith M. Kallas, a partner with Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, was interviewed about managed healthcare litigation in Florida for American Airline's Forbes Business & Technology Channel. The show was titled “Designing 21st Century Health Care System."

To listen to Ms. Kallas' interview click on the Healthcare icon at Professional Recruiter's Web site.

Ms. Kallas is a managing partner of Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, and concentrates her practice on the areas of healthcare and securities litigation. Her clients include the Medical Society of the State of New York, the Connecticut State Medical Society, the Medical Society of New Jersey, South Carolina Medical Association, Tennessee Medical Association, North Virginia Medical Societies, North Carolina Medical Society, Washington State Medical Association, Hawaii Medical Association, Alaska Medical Association, Vermont Medical Society, El Paso County Medical Society of Colorado and the California Chiropractic Association.

Fred Cohen

Fred Cohen is a principal in the litigation group of Goldgerg Kohn of Chicago with significant experience in a broad range of business disputes. He has extensive experience litigating patent and trademark infringement matters, class action, health care matters, business tort cases, e-commerce issues and state and local tax challenges. He is an adjunct professor of intellectual property litigation at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, and he is on the advisory board of The Licensing Journal.

John Bigalke

John Bigalke, National Managing Partner with Deloitte & Touche was interviewed about the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 bringing the most sweeping changes to the Medicare program since its inception for American Airline's Forbes Business & Technology Channel. The show was titled “Designing a 21st Century Health Care System.”

To listen to Mr. Bigalke's interview click on the Healthcare icon at Professional Recruiter's Web site.

John Render

John Render, a partner in Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman in Indianapolis, was interviewed regarding hospitals and health care systems dealing with rapidly increasing numbers of patients who are uninsured or underinsured for American Airline's Forbes Business & Technology Channel. The show was titled “Designing a 21st Century Healthcare System.”

To listen to Mr. Render's interview click on the Healthcare icon at Professional Recruiter's Web site.

Joshua S. Levine

Joshua S. Levine, a partner with the White Plains, N.Y., law firm of Danziger & Markhoff was interviewed about health care practitioners having to deal with increasing government regulation as well as policies and initiatives undertaken by private payors and the health care marketplace for American Airline's Forbes Business & Technology Channel. The show was titled “Designing a 21st Century Health Care System.”

To listen to Mr. Levine's interview click on the Healthcare icon at Professional Recruiter's Web site.

Leonard D. Schaeffer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, WellPoint

Leonard D. Schaeffer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, WellPoint.

Leonard D. Schaeffer is chairman and chief executive officer of WellPoint, the nation's second-largest publicly traded health care company. WellPoint serves more than 15 million medical members and approximately 46 million specialty members. WellPoint's revenues for the 12 months ending December 31, 2003 were $20.4 billion. WellPoint employs nearly 20,000 full-time associates in more than 90 offices throughout the country.

Under his leadership, WellPoint has been selected by Fortune magazine as America's "Most Admired Health Care Company" for an unprecedented six consecutive years and is ranked No. 3 on BusinessWeek magazine's "BW50" ranking of top performing public companies in the S&P 500. WellPoint also has been named by Forbes magazine as America's best large health insurance company and named one of America's Top Public Companies for executive women. Schaeffer was selected by BusinessWeek magazine as one of the "Top 25 Managers of the Year" and one of the "50 Best CEOs in America" by Worth Magazine.

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Michael H. Bernstein

Michael H. Bernstein, a partner at Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold’s New York office, was interviewed about the state of healthcare litigation for American Airline's Forbes Business & Technology Channel for the World Business Monitor Show.

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Mr. Bernstein practices in the areas of ERISA, as well as medical malpractice liability and related insurance-coverage issues. He is a member of Sedgwick’s Healthcare Law and Employment and Labor Law Groups. He counsels employee benefit plan administrators and fiduciaries concerning ERISA, employee benefits and health care issues. He has successfully defended life, health and disability claims against plan administrators, employers and managed care organizations.

T. Reed Stephens

T. Reed Stephens was interviewed for the American Airline's Forbes Business & Technology Channel for a show covering the following topics: Designing a 21st Century Health Care System, The New Medicare Law, The Medicaid Law, Health Care Litigation, The Medicine Equity and Drugs Safety Act II and The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Security Measures to Protect the Integrity of Prescription Drugs and the Drug Distribution Network.

To listen to Mr. Stephens' interview, click on the Healthcare icon at Professional Recruiter's Web site.

Mr. Stephens, a partner with the Sonnenschein firm in Washington, D.C., practices in the firm's national health care practice. A former attorney with the Department of Justice, he was lead or co-lead counsel in 60 investigations, the majority involving allegations of health care fraud against the Medicare and Medicaid programs, TRICARE, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veteran's Affairs. Mr. Stephens was lead or co-lead counsel in more than a dozen fraud matters that resulted in multi-million-dollar recoveries to the United States. Of the $6 billion in recoveries collected by the Department of Justice under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act in the 17 years since the 1986 amendments to the statute, more than 10 percent was recovered in Mr. Stephens' cases. These investigations -- many of which resulted in complex, civil, criminal federal, state global settlements -- involved a host of providers and suppliers, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospitals and home health agencies.