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Peter Reinecke is principal of Reinecke Strategic Solutions, Inc., providing strategic advice and winning policy and communications solutions for a wide array of non-profit and corporate clients. Peter has long been recognized as a national expert and leader in health and nutrition policy having spent over 20 years working for the U.S. Congress in senior positions in these fields. As staff to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and Legislative Director and Chief of Staff to Senator Tom Harkin, he helped write many key pieces of health legislation, including DSHEA, 15 years of health appropriations bills, FDA Modernization, creation of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at NIH, the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements and the National Institute on Nursing Research. Peter’s Capitol Hill tenure also included membership of the White House Health Reform Task Force, staff leader of the Senate Rural Health Caucus and work on a range of other legislation including Medicare, child nutrition, FDA regulation of tobacco products, age discrimination, women’s health and proposals to reorient the health care system towards prevention and wellness.
Peter has also served on the staff of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences and as a Visiting Lecturer in health policy at Duke University.
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