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HEALTH LAW & POLICY FORUM

     The Suffolk University Law School Health Law and Policy Forum is an annual program which features national and regional leaders in health law, health policy, medicine and ethics. The Forum promotes communication among practitioners and scholars across disciplines and builds on Suffolk University Law School's location and Health Law program.

     All Forum lectures are held from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the first floor Function Room of the Law School . The lectures are free of charge and a complimentary lunch is included.   All members of the Suffolk community and members of the legal, health policy and medical communities are welcome to attend any or all of the lectures.   To reserve your space, please call 617.305.8096, e mail pgalagh@suffolk.edu, or return the reservation card from the brochure.  

Forum Program Director: Professor Marc Rodwin

 

Speakers:  2008

  • Wednesday February 13, 2008 - Professor Keith Wailoo, Martin Luther King Professor of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,

    who will speak on The Cultural Politics of Pain Medicine in America.

 

  • Wednesday March 5, 2008 - Lawrence D. Brown, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, will speak on

    The Collapsing US Health Care System:  What is Taking So Long?

 

  • Wednesday April 2, 2008 - Lisa I. Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc., Professor of Medicine,

    Harvard Medical School, will speak on Health Care Quality and Access for People with Disabilities. 

Spring 2008 Health Law & Policy Forum Brochure (Requires Adobe Acrobat)

 

Speakers: 2007

 

  • Monday, February 26, 2007 - Michele Goodwin, Professor of Law, DePaul College of Law, will speak on Private Ordering and the Negotiation for Body Parts: Does Really Race Matter?

 

  • Monday, March, 19, 2007 –John Lantos, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics; Section Chief, General Pediatrics; Associate Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics; and  Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, at the University of Chicago, will speak on A Tiny Baby in a Court of Law.  To review Dr. Lantos' writing on this topic, click here.

 

  • Tuesday, April 3, 2007 - George Annas, Edward R. Utley Professor and Chair, Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health, will speka on Human Rights and Bioethics:  Lessons from the Geneva Conventions, the Guantanamo Hunger Strikes, and the Nuremberg Code.  To review Professor Annas' recent article on this topic, click here

 Spring 2007 Health Law & Policy Forum Brochure (Requires Adobe Acrobat)

 

Speakers: 2006

  •  Tuesday, March 28, 2006 – Michael Millenson, Mervin Shalowitz, M.D. Visiting Scholar, at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, spoke on Farewell to Hippocrates:  Medicine in the Information Age
  • Thursday, April 20, 2006 –Sidney Watson, Professor of Law, at Saint Louis University School of Law, spoke on From Risk to Ruin:  Shifting the Costs of Health Care to Patients.

 

Spring 2006 Health Law & Policy Forum Brochure (Requires Adobe Acrobat)

 

Speakers:  2005

•  Thursday, February 17, 2005 - Thomas L. Greaney, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University Law School, spoke on Challenges to Nonprofit Hospitals: Balancing Mission and Margin in Light of Sarbanes and Consumer Class Actions.

 

•  Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - Deborah Stone, Research Professor, Department of Government at Dartmouth College, spoke on From Scholar to Daughter: Reflections on End-Of-Life Care.  To view Professor Stone's related article, Hungry For Air, published in the Boston Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, February/March 2005, at pp. 24-26, click here.  To review Professor Stone's article, Shopping for End-of-Life Care, in the July/August 2004 edition of Health Affairs, click here.

•  Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - Bruce C. Vladeck, Ph.D., Principal and East Coast Director, Academic Medical Center Advisory Services Practice Group, Ernst & Young LLP, spoke on The Future of Medicare.  To view Dr. Vladeck's review of Daniel Shaviro's Who Should Pay for Medicare, in Health Affairs, click here.

Spring 2005 Health Law & Policy Forum Brochure (Requires Adobe Acrobat)

 

Speakers: 2004

Monday, February 23, 2004 - Edward N. Beiser, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Former Associate Dean of Medicine (Humanities and Social Sciences) at Brown University, spoke on The Economics and Ethics of Informed Consent - Time to Admit Our Mistakes and Move On.  A portion of Professor Beiser's lecture focused on his teaching video, "Peter Wegner is Alive and Well and Living in Providence," a documentary chronicling the treatment and rehabilitation of Brown Professor Peter Wegner following a tragic bus accident resulting in brain damage.  To view the documentary go to Peter Wegner Video.

Monday, March 22, 2004 - Lori Andrews, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Chicago-Kent College of Law Institute for Science, Law and Technology at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, spoke on The Body as Property - Gene Patents and Health Care Policy.  Click here to view Professor Andrews' article, Genes and patent policy: rethinking intellectual property rights.  Click here for a partial listing of Professor Andrews' Publications

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - Henry T. Greely, C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law at Stanford University, spoke on Advances in Neuro-Science & the Future of Litigation.    Click here to view Professor Greely's article, Prediction, Litigation, Privacy and Property: Some Possible Legal and Social Implications of Advances in Neuroscience.  Click here for an abstract of this article. Click here for a recording of Professor Greely's lecture.

 

Spring 2004 Health Law & Policy Forum Brochure (Requires Adobe Acrobat )

 

Speakers: 2003

  • February 12, 2003 - Sara Rosenbaum, Hirsh Professor of  Health Law and Policy and Director, Center for Health Services Research and Policy, George Washington University Medical Center, School of Public Health and Health Services, Ending Health Insurance As We Know It.
  • March 6, 2003 - Barry Furrow, Professor of Law and Director, Health Law Institute, Widener University School of Law, Health Care System Failures: New Trends in Liability.
  • April 9, 2003 - James Morone, Professor of Political Scienc, Brown University, Hellfire Nation: Sinners, Morals and Health Care Policy.

Spring 2003 Health Law & Policy Forum Brochure (Requires Adobe Acrobat )

Speakers: 2002

  • March 26, 2002 - Marcia Angell, M.D., Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Science in the Courtroom: The Breast Implant Case.
  • April 3, 2002 - David Rothman, Professor, Columbia University, Center for Study of Society and Medicine, American Health Care Entitlements: An International Comparison.
  • May 15, 2002 - Timothy Jost, Robert L. Willett Family Law Professor, Washington and Lee University, The Historian in Court: Radiation Experiments at Vanderbilt University.
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