People In Brief
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
AdvaMed names new lobbying chief: Brett Loper joins AdvaMed as senior executive VP and director of government affairs May 5, moving on from his post as minority staff director for the House Ways and Means Committee and chief of staff for the committee's ranking member, Jim McCrery, R-La. The appointment of Loper, who also previously served as deputy chief of staff for House majority leader Tom Delay, R-Texas, fills a Republican slot in AdvaMed's bipartisan lobbying team that was vacated in February when former Bush White House aide Amy Jensen Cunniffe left the association to join GE Healthcare. Senior Executive VP David Nexon, former health policy advisor to Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., also plays a major role in AdvaMed's lobbying effort