Before joining ACS, Praveen Fernandes counseled clients at Patton Boggs LLP on regulatory, legislative, and public policy matters with a focus on health care and Food and Drug Administration issues.
Prior to his time at Patton Boggs, Praveen served as a lobbyist and legislative lawyer for the Human Rights Campaign, where he worked on judicial nominations, relationship recognition, appropriations, and HIV/AIDS issues. He also practiced food and drug law in the Washington office of Ropes & Gray LLP.
Praveen's additional policy experience includes stints on the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (a White House bioethics committee) and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (since renamed the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee) under Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA).
Praveen graduated with honors from Brown University in 1994. He earned his law degree from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) School of Law in 1998 and his Master of Public Health degree from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) School of Public Health in 1999.