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# Susan Winckler
**Chief Risk Management Officer**

As President of Leavitt Partners Consulting, a national health care consulting firm, and Chief Risk Management Officer for the Leavitt Partners family of businesses, Ms. Winckler advises corporate executives on policy and business matters, such as Medicare/Medicaid, FDA practices and alternative payment models. As CEO of the Food & Drug Law Institute from 2009 - 2014, she provided attorneys, regulators, industry leaders and consumers with journals, meetings and a neutral forum for
addressing domestic and global issues.

As FDA Chief of Staff from 2007-2009, Ms. Winckler managed the Commissioner’s office; served as his/her senior staff adviser; analyzed policies; and represented FDA before myriad government and external stakeholders. She simultaneously led FDA’s Offices of Legislation, External Relations, Public Affairs and Executive Secretariat.

As APhA Vice President Policy/Communications and Staff Counsel, Ms. Winckler served as the association’s lead
spokesperson and senior liaison to Congress, the executive branch, state associations and allied groups. Over the prior 9 years, she held several policy and practice-related jobs. Ms. Winckler earned a B.S. from the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy and her J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. She is an APhA Fellow.

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
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