Policy and Medicine is a website dedicated to exploring policy issues for compliance professionals, medical educators, physicians and medical affairs departments.
Over the years Policy and Medicine has served as a resource on issues such as the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, Open Payments, MACRA, EFPIA Reporting, FDA, DOJ and Congressional oversight of the life sciences industry.
Policy and Medicine helps physicians, educators, pharmaceutical and device companies comply with evolving federal, state, and international laws
Policy and Medicine also covers a wide scope of additional healthcare initiatives and enforcement activities to provide the health industry a comprehensive tool to navigate the increasingly complex regulatory landscape.
Editor-In-Chief
Thomas Sullivan
Thomas Sullivan is Editor of the popular website Policy and Medicine (www.policymed.com). Started in 2008 as a newsletter for his clients, Policy and Medicine has become compliance officers’ go-to publication for important regulatory and compliance issues affecting the pharmaceutical and device industry.
For nine years Policy and Medicine has been ranked first by Google as an information source for the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Policy and Medicine has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ABC News and CNN.com.
Tom has presented at many national meetings discussing regulatory and compliance issues including talks on the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, FDA Regulations, Biosimilars, MARCRA, Affordable Care Act, legal cases and settlements, COVID-19 and prescription drug shortages.
As Editor of Policy and Medicine, Thomas survey’s the industry to find what is important to keep your companies in compliance with international, federal, and state laws and regulations.
In 1995,Tom started Rockpointe Corporation to provide continuing medical education to physicians around the world. Rockpointe, and its ACCME-accredited subsidiary, Potomac Center for Medical Education (PCME), are among the nation’s leading medical education companies. In 2022 Rockpointe joined Clinical Education Alliance, where Tom serves as senior vice president. He is also one of the co-founders of the CME Coalition, a lobbying organization for CME providers, which has successfully educated stakeholders in Washington on the value of accredited CME. In April 2020, Tom started the State Medical Society COVID-19 Collaborative to help keep medical societies up to date on all the developments related to COVID.
Prior to founding Rockpointe, Mr. Sullivan was an award-winning television producer and political consultant. He provided services for the National Republican Congressional Committee and campaigns for Congress, Governor and US Senate. He began his career working on Capitol Hill and in the Florida Legislature.