HEALTH AND BIOMEDICAL
LAW CONCENTRATION:
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
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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.
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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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