


Renée J. Gentry, Esq. is one of the leading experts on vaccine injury litigation in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) with over 20 years of experience in all phases of cases from entitlement to damages and appeals. She has chaired numerous conferences on Vaccine Injury Litigation and has been a featured speaker regarding the NVICP at Judicial Conferences, Vaccine Injury Litigation Boot Camps for New Practitioners and a Court of Federal Claims Brown Bag Series on the use of experts in the NVICP. In March 2024, Ms. Gentry testified before Congress in the House Committee on Government Oversight, Select SubCommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing on the need for modernization of the VICP.
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Ms. Gentry has advised numerous congressional members, staff, and committees on issues relevant to the NVICP, and she has also helped to draft and introduce critical legislation to improve the NVICP. She is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia and is admitted to the Federal Claims Court Bar where the Vaccine Court sits, as well as the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She is a founding member of the Vaccine Injured Petitioners Bar Association, a national bar representing the interests of claimants in the NVICP, where she serves as Senior Counsel to the Bar, and previously served as President for four years. She is a member of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar Association, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Bas Association. She is also a member of the American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA), and currently serves as co-chair of its Vaccine Litigation Group.
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In addition to her private practice, Ms. Gentry is the Director of the Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic at The George Washington University Law School where she is a Distinguished Professorial Lecturer in Law. In addition to the Clinic, Ms. Gentry previously taught Disability Rights Law and the health care component of the Systemic Racism Reading Group.
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Ms. Gentry has been featured in the The New York Times, Bloomberg Law, Politico, National Geographic, Reuters and Health Affairs, as well as NBC News (Washington DC).
