Conference Agenda
Day 1, Friday, May 12, 2017
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Registration
12:30 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Welcome by Chair
Jennifer Lenze, Lenze Moss, PLC, Manhattan Beach, CA
12:45 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
History of Breast Implant Litigation
• MDL 926 Overview, DCC Bankruptcy Settlement Overview
• Women as Guinea Pigs
• Rupture Rates Are Still Not Under Control and the Consequences Are Serious: It's A Lifetime of Surgery
Sybil Niden Goldrich, Consumer Advocate, Co-Founder of the Command Trust Network, and Chair of the Common Benefit Fund in MDL 926 on Breast Implants, Los Angeles
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The Breast Implant – Over a Half Century of Medical-Legal Paradox
Dr. Pierre Blais, Ottawa, Canada
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma (ALCL) and Breast Implants
Dr. Pierre Blais, Ottawa, Canada
David Wool, Andrus Wagstaff, Denver
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Refreshment Break
2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Clinical Manifestations of Silicone-Gel Filled Breast Implants, Mechanisms of Action and Disease Causation, Acceptable Methodology Utilized To Study Silicone-Induced Disease
Arthur E. Brawer, M.D., Director of Rheumatology and Director of Arthritis and Connective Tissue Disease Section, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Mentor’s Failed Post-Approval Studies As Conditions for Its PMA
Jennifer Lenze, Lenze Moss, PLC, Manhattan Beach, CA
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
A True Story: A Story of How One Woman’s Life Was Personally Affected by Silicone Breast Implants
Emilia Barozzi, Emilia Barozzi Photography, Centennial, CO
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Update on Current Status of Litigation
Keith D. Griffin, Girardi | Keese, Los Angeles