Sonali GunawardhanaÌý(Chair)
LL.M. 2003
Assistant General Counsel, Regulatory Law, Becton Dickinson
Sonali Gunawardhana is Assistant General Counsel at Becton Dickinson, a large medical device company. She is also an adjunct professor at Â鶹ÊÓƵWCL and The Catholic University of America. Previously, she served as Assistant General Counsel-Regulatory Law at Cardinal Health and previously as Chief Counsel FDA and Regulatory Law at McKesson. She has also served as outside counsel to a myriad of pharmaceutical and medical device companies while in private practice at Wiley Rein LLP and Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP. Prior to her tenure in private practice, she served as Regulatory Counsel at the FDA for nearly ten years. There she assisted on a variety of legal and policy issues in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health; the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; and the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. Sonali also serves on the Board of Directors for the Food & Drug Law Institute.