Who should control the flow of information about medical treatments and pharmaceuticals? Should information be restricted? Should pharmaceutical companies be allowed to advertise their products to potential consumers? How much control of information should regulatory authorities have?

The issues behind Direct To Consumer information cut to the heart of the respective roles of government, physicians and patients. As patients demand an ever greater say in their treatment, this is an area with growing importance and which needs to be addressed.

To that end, CNE is honoured to host a discussion with Dr Dan Troy, Chief Counsel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration .

Thursday, 15 July 2004
Renaissance Hotel
Rue du Parnasse 19, Brussels

12:30 -13:15 Cocktails
13:15-14:30 Lecture, Discussion, Lunch

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Before joining FDA, Dan Troy was a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding (specializing in constitutional and administrative law issues) and an associate scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He has published articles in Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, the Washington Times, National Review, the American Spectator, Legal Times, National Law Journal, the Journal of Law and Politics, the Administrative Law Review, and Policy Review, among others.

Mr. Troy has served on the First Amendment Advisory Committee of the Media Institute and been a member of the AAF's Legal Affairs Committee. Mr. Troy is currently the co-chair of the Committee on Constitutional Law and Separation of Powers of the ABA's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy. He has also served on that Section's Council and as its Meetings Chair. In addition, Mr. Troy was the Chair of the Federalist Society's Telecommunications and Electronic Media Practice Group.

From 1987-1989, Mr. Troy served in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice as an attorney-advisor. From 1983-84, he clerked for D.C. Circuit Judge Robert Bork. Mr. Troy has served as a lecturer-in-law at his alma mater, Columbia Law School, where he was Book Review Editor of the Law Review, a Harlan Fiske Stone, and a James Kent Scholar. He graduated from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 1980.