Deputy Staff Director for Health Policy to U.S. Senate Joins Foley Hoag LLP
Boston, MA - July 14, 2003
Foley Hoag LLP, a business law firm of more than 240 attorneys with offices in Washington, D.C. and Boston, has announced that Paul Tae Ho Kim, formerly Senator Edward M. Kennedy's Deputy Staff Director for health policy on the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has joined the firm's Washington office as Food and Drug Counsel.
As a member of Senator Kennedy's staff during the 107th Congress, Mr. Kim's responsibilities included oversight of public health issues and initiatives. Major issues included the creation of a Medicare drug benefit, the patients' bill of rights, patient safety and medical errors, and significant new legislation on vaccines, cancer quality, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, tuberculosis, and organ donations. Legislation enacted into law while Mr. Kim served with Senator Kennedy included, most notably, the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Act of 2001, including food safety protections deemed "the most significant expansion of federal authority over the food industry in more than six decades" by the New York Times.
In addition, Mr. Kim has served as Counsel to Congressman Henry A. Waxman, conducting investigations into FDA regulation of prescription drug safety and NIH oversight of human gene therapy research, and as Assistant Director for Government Relations with the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR), the largest private founder of HIV/AIDS research.
Comments Partner Nick Littlefield, "Paul's previous work experience will lend itself to providing legal and strategic counsel to current Foley Hoag clients in the biotechnology, prescription drug, medical device, and health care industries. We are confident he will play a central role in furthering Foley Hoag's food and drug law practice."
Mr. Kim received his A.B., with honors, from Harvard College, his M.P.P. from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.