Karin Hessler is the Chief Legal & Intellectual Property Officer for the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM). She serves as a critical advisor in all aspects of advocacy, policy and internal operations. She also leads the AAM team on tariffs and trade, litigation, intellectual property and internal governance work.
Before joining AAM in March 2019, Karin was a partner at Wiley Rein LLP, where she represented clients on intellectual property matters, with a special focus on patent litigation in the biotechnology and medical device industries. She has played a lead role in all phases of numerous Hatch-Waxman litigations, including expert discovery, fact discovery, claim construction, trials, regulatory analysis and settlement negotiations. Karin has significant experience in FDA regulatory issues as well as IPR process.
Karin received her J.D. from NYU School of Law, an M.A. in biochemistry from Duke and her B.S. in biochemistry from Lafayette College.
