HEALTH LAW and POLICY FORUMS

Director: Marc A. Rodwin

The Forum features lectures, meetings and other health law and policy activities.

Lectures are held at noon at the Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont Street, Boston, MA and include a complimentary lunch. All talks will be held in the 1st floor function room. Please RSVP to reserve your lunch by emailing Lisa Parker. For directions to Suffolk click here.

Bob Evans will speak on, "Financing Health Care: Why everyone is out of step except Uncle Sam."		October 6, 2009 - Bob Evans Robert G. Evans is an internationally esteemed health economist, who serves as an University Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia. He isan active professor, researcher and consultant with the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, of which he was a founding member, and the UBC Department of Economics. Dr. Evans' groundbreaking comparative studies of health care systems and funding strategies have shaped policy in Canada and provided insight to governments and health agencies worldwide. A prolific author, his canonical works, Strained Mercy: The Economics of Canadian Health Care, and Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of Health of Populations, are considered classics in the field. Dr. Evans is an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest honor for lifetime achievement; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; and an Institute Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, where he was director of the Population Health Program from 1987-1997. He is also an honorary life member of both the Canadian College of Health Services Executives and the Canadian Health Economics Research Association, and a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance in the U.S. In 2001, he became the first Canadian (and the second non-American) to win the Baxter International Foundation Prize for Health Services Research. Dr. Evans received his undergraduate degree in political economy from the University of Toronto and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
Trudy Lieberman will speak on, "The Press, the Public, and Health Reform."		October 28, 2009 - Trudy Lieberman Trudy Lieberman is the director of the health and medical reporting program at the Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New York. She is a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation, and has written a column about health and the marketplace for the Los Angeles Times. Ms. Lieberman was previously the director of the Center for Consumer Health Choices at Consumers Union. She has also held teaching positions at New York University, Columbia, Case Western Reserve and SUNY New Paltz. She began her career as a consumer writer for the Detroit Free Press. Her numerous honors and awards include: two National Magazine Awards; ten National Press Club Awards; five Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Awards; a Fulbright Fellowship; a John J. McCloy Fellowship; a Joan Shorenstein Fellowship from Harvard University; and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Nebraska. Ms. Lieberman is the author of five books, among which are Slanting the StoryBthe Forces That Shape the News and the Consumer Reports Guide to Health Services for Seniors, which was named one of the best consumer health books by Library Journal. She is currently working on another book about health care in America. Ms. Lieberman is president of the Association of Health Care Journalists, has served on the board of directors for the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the Medicare Rights Center, and is a member of the California Health Benefits Review Program. Trudy Lieberman Campaign Desk Archive
Suzanne Gordon will speak on, "Nursing: What's Left out of the Health Care Reform Debate and Why it Matters ."		November 16, 2009 - Suzanne Gordon Suzanne Gordon is a freelance journalist and author who writes about political culture, women’s issues, nursing, and health care. She is the author or editor of twelve books, including Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines (Little, Brown and Company 1997), and the award-winning Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost-Cutting, Media Stereotypes and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care (Cornell University Press 2005). Her latest book, Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care (Cornell University Press 2008), addresses staffing ratios in California and Victoria, Australia. Ms. Gordon has written over 350 articles for major national magazines and newspapers such as the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Toronto Globe and Mail, Harpers and Mother Jones. She has also been a radio columnist for CBS Radio News and a health care commentator for Public Radio International’s Marketplace, and served as a member of the National Advisory Committee on the Nursing Shortage for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Ms. Gordon holds a BA degree from Cornell University and did graduate work at Johns Hopkins University. For more information visit her website: www.suzannegordon.com

For information on the Health and Biomedical Law Concentration click here.

Speakers:  2009

• Wednesday February 25, 2009 - Tim Westmoreland, Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, will speak on Federal Budgets and Health Reform .

• Wednesday April 1, 2009 - Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D., Distinguished Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and Visiting Professor at Stanford University, will speak on The Current Landscape of Financial Conflicts of Interest.

• Wednesday April 15, 2009 - Ruth R. Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H., Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown Universityl, will speak on The Return of the Right to Health Care: The Moral Case for Health Reform in the United States.

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. 

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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. 

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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.

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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)

.  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.

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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.

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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.