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David Cassak is Editor and Managing Director at Elsevier Business Intelligence and
has been involved with the health care industry for more than 20
years.
Mr. Cassak earned a BA from Drew University and did graduate work
at Columbia and Princeton, earning an MA, with honors from the former,
before joining, Cassak Publications Inc., a family-run business
that published trade journals for the hospital and alternate site
distribution industries. For much of the 1980s, he wrote and spoke
frequently about the medical/surgical and hospital supply industries,
before joining The Wilkerson Group, a health care consulting company,
in 1988, as an editor of IN VIVO: The Business & Medicine Report.
In 1989, Mr. Cassak, along with his partner Roger
Longman, led a buyout of the publications business of TheWilkerson
Group, forming Windhover Information Inc.
In addition to IN VIVO,
Elsevier Business Intelligence publishes other monthly reports, including START-UP:
The Review of Emerging Medical Ventures. Windhover also has an
extensive database of health care transactions which has been
turned into a Web-based electronic system, Strategic Transactions. Strategic Transactions allows users to search for transactions by
a variety of criteria, including deal structure, value, and therapeutic
and scientific categories. EBI also has a conference business
and is well-known for, among others, its Pharmaceutical Strategic
Alliances, Euro-Biotech, Bio-Windhover, and IN3 (Medical Device) meetings.
Mr. Cassak writes extensively about the medical
device and hospital supply industries for IN VIVO and START-UP
and is a frequent speaker before various companies and industry
trade groups.
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Stephen Levin joined Windhover Information in 1997, specializing
in medical devices, distribution and legal issues. Prior to joining
Windhover, Steve was senior counsel to the U.S. Senate Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations where he directed Senate investigations
into a wide variety of areas including health care fraud and abuse,
international organized crime and corruption in federal contracting
programs. Before joining the Subcommittee, Steve held various positions
in Washington including working for the Federal Election Commission
and the Department of Justice, and was an editor of Health Industry
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