GARY R. ROSE, JD
Jersey City, NJ 07302
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EMPLOYMENT
HEALTH SYSTEMS CONSULTANT, New York, NY (12/2006 - present). Projects
included:
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, hYDE PARK COMMUNICATIONS, new York, NY (10/2000 -
11/2006). Managed public health, public policy, alliance development and
reimbursement practice for boutique communications firm with offices in New
York and Washington, DC; clients and program areas included:
. Roche:
o Public policy, government affairs, community affairs and
reimbursement in HCV, HIV, anemia, dermatology, oncology and mental
health;
o Pre-introduction and introduction of Pegasys and Fuzeon;
reimbursement, government affairs, community affairs, public policy
o Development of trade policy on enforcement of patents in the
developing world; and
o International and domestic HIV counsel on programs including
administration of the Treatment Access Expansion Project, Ryan
White Care Act appropriations/reauthorization, international access
to HIV care and patent reform.
. Pfizer/Pfizer Foundation:
o Public policy, government relations, communications and alliance
development for domestic programs including the Clear Health
Communications Initiative and the Rural HIV Testing Initiative;
o Communications, government relations, alliance development and
policy counsel on International HIV access projects including the
Diflucan Partnership Program, the Academic Alliance and the African
Infectious Disease Institute, PEPFAR, and patent reform; and
o Strategic counsel on domestic HIV access issues including ADAP, the
Ryan White Care Act, government relations counsel on both domestic
and international HIV issues, development and support for state
level ADAP working groups, and staffing of the President's Council
on HIV/AIDS.
. Bristol-Myers Squibb:
o Community affairs, government affairs and reimbursement on both
domestic and international HIV issues.
. Cooley's Anemia Foundation
o Public policy strategy and alliance development program for
organization representing patients with rare blood disorder.
. ADAP Working Group
o Coordination of communications, government relations and community
relations for coalition advocating increases in appropriations for
AIDS Drug Assistance Program.
VICE PRESIDENT, IssueSphere, New York, NY (5/97-9/2000)
Manager of public affairs agency's HIV, reimbursement, community relations
and regulatory practices. Clients and programs included:
. Roche:
o Strategic counsel on HIV, HCV, dermatology, diagnostics and
opportunistic infections; public policy and government affairs;
o Editor of "HIV 2000" and "HIV 2005", comprehensive analyses of HIV
treatment access, treatment research and policy;
o Creation and management of, communications and publications for the
Treatment Access Expansion Project, a pharmacoeconomic model
rationalizing expansion of Medicaid for HIV patients in the US;
o Coordination of corporate public policy positions for Roche global;
and
o Coordination of and publications from first national conference on
HIV/HCV coinfection.
. Bristol-Myers Squibb:
o Strategic direction, government affairs, alliance development and
communications for Secure the Future, a global HIV access to care
program; and
o Counsel on regulatory, reimbursement and community relations for
HIV franchise.
. Pfizer Foundation:
o Strategic counsel and alliance development for the Diflucan
Partnership Program; and
o Counsel on international HIV/AIDS policy and patent enforcement
strategy in the least developed world.
. National Alliance for the Mentally Ill: Strategic counsel,
communications, and advocacy relations for the Mental Health Parity
Project.
. Kaiser Family Foundation: General counsel for The ADAP Monitoring Report.
. APP: Guidance on reimbursement and community relations for specialty
HIV/AIDS pharmacy chain.
. Ortho-Biotech: Community education and reimbursement on HIV related
anemia; development of the first advocacy field force in HIV.
. DuPont Pharma: Strategic counsel on HIV antiretroviral regulatory,
reimbursement, communications and community relations programs for the
introduction of Sustiva.
Treatment and Research Director, AIDS Action Council, Washington, DC (5/95
to 5/97)
Advocacy in Congress, with the federal administration and with federal
agencies for largest HIV advocacy organization in Washington, DC.,
coordinating policy and advocacy affecting research into, and the
development of, regulation of and provision of treatments for HIV disease.
Management of communications issues concerning treatment, research and
access to treatments.
. Patients' Coalition for Responsible FDA Reform: Cofounder and
Administrator
. ADAP Working Group: Co-Founder, Coordinating Committee, Public Affairs
Chair
. National Organizations Responding to AIDS: Co-Chair
. USPHS Committee for the creation of the Guidelines for the Use of
Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents
Director OF Federal Affairs, National Association of People With AIDS,
Washington, DC (6/93-5/95)
Federal representative for national advocacy group representing the
interests of people living with or affected by HIV in Congress,
administration and the federal agencies.
. National Organizations Responding to AIDS (NORA), Co-Chair
. Prevention Action Group; Steering Committee
. National HIV Immigration Work Group, Steering Committee
NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT
Co-Founder, Coordinating Committee, HCV United! (1/07-present)
Creation and co-manager of first national grassroots coalition for HCV
patients and advocates.
Chair, Title II Community AIDS National Network, Washington, DC (6/97-11-
09), Executive committee (11/09-present)
Coordinate policy for national organization representing the needs of
service providers and clients dependant on programs funded under Title II
of the Ryan White CARE Act including the AIDS Drug Assistance Program.
Executive Committee, AIDS Treatment Data Network, New York, NY (9/97 -2/05)
Fiscal and development oversight for national treatment education
organization.
President, HIV Community Coalition, Washington, DC (1/95-10/97)
Fiscal, public policy, and development oversight for group representing the
needs of the HIV-infected in the Washington, DC EMA.
EDUCATION
CUNY Law School at Queens College, Flushing, NY (JD)
Areas of specialized study included AIDS law, Native American law,
immigration law and international relations. Editor-in-Chief, ILSA Journal
of International Law.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (MA)
Northeastern University, Boston, MA (BA)
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