Speaker Bio
Elizabeth (Issie) Karan focuses her career on health care law and advocacy. She serves as General Counsel for the Hemophilia Alliance. She founded the Karan Legal Group PLLC in 2020 to serve nonprofit health care providers specializing in vulnerable and underserved patient populations. She founded Artemis Policy Group with Johanna Gray and Ellen Riker shortly thereafter to provide lobbying and other consulting services to organizations in the patient advocacy and provider communities. Her expertise is in legislative and administrative advocacy, provider compliance, and assistance with transactional arrangements, with a focus on the 340B drug pricing program, federal grants, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and reimbursement issues. She moved to Washington, D.C., in 2012 as a Winston Health Policy Fellow where she worked with the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, learning firsthand the process of drafting and developing federal legislation. She then spent six years working at the law firm of Feldesman LLP in Washington, D.C., finishing her time as a Senior Associate. She earned her J.D. and MPH from the University of Minnesota and her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She currently splits her time between Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. and is admitted to practice law in D.C. and Minnesota.