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January 23, 2017, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

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The Fifth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium featured leading experts discussing major developments during 2016 and what to watch out for in 2017. The discussion at this day-long event covered hot topics in such areas as health policy under the new administration, regulatory issues in clinical research, law at the end-of-life, patient rights and advocacy, pharmaceutical policy, reproductive health, and public health law.

The Fifth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review was sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, Harvard Health Publications at Harvard Medical School, Health Affairs, the Hastings Center, the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, with support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund.

Agenda

8:30 - 9:00am, Registration

9:00 - 9:05am, Welcome Remarks

  • I. Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School

  • Holly Fernandez Lynch, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center and Faculty, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School

9:05 - 10:30am: The End of ObamaCare? Health Care Reform Under A New Administration

  • Joseph R. Antos, Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute

  • David Blumenthal, President, The Commonwealth Fund

  • Michael K. Gusmano, Research Scholar, The Hastings Center

  • John McDonough, Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Director of the Center for Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

  • Abigail R. Moncrieff, Associate Professor of Law and Peter Paul Career Development Professor, Boston University School of Law

  • Moderator: Einer Elhauge, Caroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Law and Founding Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School

10:30 - 10:45am, Break

10:45 - 11:10am, Precision Medicine Initiative/Cancer Moonshot

  • Jonathan Darrow, Faculty, Harvard Medical School and the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

11:10 - 11:35am, Common Rule Update

  • Holly Fernandez Lynch, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center and Faculty, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School

11:35am - 12:00pm, Clinical Trial Data Sharing

  • Barbara Bierer, Faculty Co-Director, the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials (MRCT) Center at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital and Program Director of the Regulatory Foundations, Law and Ethics Program of Harvard Catalyst | the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center

12:00 - 12:25pm, All-Payer Claims Databases

  • Gregory D. Curfman, Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Health Publications, Harvard Medical School

12:25 - 1:00pm, Lunch

1:00 - 1:25pm, Defining Death, Aid in Dying, and Family Rights

  • Paul Ford, Lecturer, Harvard Medical School, Winter 2017; Director, NeuroEthics Program, Cleveland Clinic; Director of Education, Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic; Associate Professor, CCF Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU

1:25 - 1:50pm, Patient Advocacy, FDA, and Right to Try

  • Jerry Avorn, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

1:50 - 2:15pm, Drug Pricing and Cost

  • Ameet Sarpatwari, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital

2:15 - 2:40pm, Health IP

2:40 - 2:55pm, Break

2:55 - 3:20pm, Women’s Health

  • Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law

3:20 - 3:45pm, Reproductive Technology and Regulatory Oversight

  • I. Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School

3:45 - 4:10pm, Legal Responses to Zika

  • George Annas, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health; Professor in the Boston University School of Medicine, and School of Law

4:10 - 4:35pm, Flint, Water Safety, and Public Health Infrastructure

  • Wendy Parmet, Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Health Policy and Law, and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Education and Research Support; Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

4:35 - 5:00pm, Concussion Litigation and Legislation in Sports

5:00pm, Adjourn

Learn More

How were our health law and policy predictions for 2016? Check out videos of all of the presentations at the 4th Annual Health Law Year in P/Review to find out!

Slide Presentations

HealthAffairs Blog Posts

Sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, Harvard Health Publications at Harvard Medical School, Health Affairs, the Hastings Center, the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, with support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund.


Videos

VIDEO: Welcome Remarks, I. Glenn Cohen and Holly Fernandez Lynch

VIDEO: Panel Discussion, The End of ObamaCare? Health Care Reform Under A New Administration

VIDEO: Precision Medicine Initiative/Cancer Moonshot, Jonathan Darrow

VIDEO: Common Rule Update, Holly Fernandez Lynch

VIDEO: Clinical Trial Data Sharing, Barbara Bierer

VIDEO: All-Payer Claims Databases, Gregory Curfman

VIDEO: Defining Death, Aid in Dying, and Family Rights, Paul Ford

VIDEO: Patient Advocacy, FDA, and Right to Try, Jerry Avorn

VIDEO: Drug Pricing and Cost, Ameet Sarpatwari

VIDEO: Health IP, Claire Laporte

VIDEO: Women’s Health, Aziza Ahmed

VIDEO: Reproductive Technology and Regulatory Oversight, I. Glenn Cohen

VIDEO: Legal Responses to Zika, George Annas

VIDEO: Flint, Water Safety, and Public Health Infrastructure, Wendy Parmet

VIDEO: Concussion Litigation and Legislation in Sports, Christopher Deubert

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