Prior to joining Arent Fox, Joanne was a student attorney for the Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center and a legal intern at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). She also spent a summer as a National Institutes of Health Fellow working with the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. Before attending law school, Joanne was an editor and reporter for a science policy and biomedical research trade newsletter; and before becoming a reporter, she conducted fundamental research on the regulation of gene expression, with a focus on cancer genetics.

Joanne serves on the Food and Drug Law Institute’s Monograph Editorial Advisory Board, which advises on the content and substance of the organization’s Monograph publications.

In March 2012, Joanne participated in the Distribution Management Conference and Technology Expo, co-hosted by the Healthcare Distribution Management Association and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers. She presented an update on state pedigree and licensing laws to an audience of executives representing manufacturers, distributors, and other members of the health care supply chain.

Joanne regularly writes for various Food and Drug Law Institute publications and in April 2011, she co-edited an FDLI book titled “Personalized Medicine: Prescriptions and Prospects.”

• “A Long Time Coming: Dietary Supplement GMPs No Longer Discretionary,” FDLI Update magazine (September/October 2010, Issue 5)
• “Are Federal Regulations in a Funk Over Functional Foods?,” FDLI Update magazine (September/October 2009, Issue 5) (co-written with Brian Waldman);
• “Drug Pedigree Rules In Effect, Yet Remain in Flux,” FDLI Update magazine (November/December 2008, Issue 6).
• “Non-Medical Application of Reproductive Genetic Technologies Highlight the Pressing Need for Government Oversight: Sex Control by Prospective Parents Raises Concerns about Discrimination,” Biotech Briefing/Newsletter of the Biotechnology Committee, ABA Section of Science and Technology Law,Vol. 3, No. 2, spring 2007.

Joanne spends her free time with her husband, Thatcher, and together they enjoy cooking (and eating), hiking, and biking. They also enjoy traveling and are fortunate to have family members in many countries, so they always have a good excuse to visit somewhere new.