Mary Devlin Capizzi is a partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath and based in Washington, DC. She advises individual corporations and consortia clients on complex regulatory compliance, legislative, scientific and policy issues and engages with key regulatory agencies on their behalf. Mary is highly valued for her facilitation of cross-industry and industry-wide initiatives focused on best practices, collaborative technology development, and data sharing. A long-time firm leader, Mary has served as an executive partner, a firm board member for 15 years, and recently finished a six-year term as co-leader of the firm’s health & life sciences industry group.

For more than 25 years, Mary has worked with global life sciences industry leaders to establish and operate numerous consortia to advance science, data protection, research and development, patient safety and clinical trials. She leads the consensus-building processes and assists in devising and executing initiatives that inject efficiencies and reap collective benefits for consortia members.