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December 12, 2017, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

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Couldn't join us? Check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #healthlawpreview2018 and some of our speakers' slide presentations below!

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The Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium featured leading experts discussing major developments during 2017 and what to watch out for in 2018. 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.

This event was free and open to the public.

Health Affairs hosted a blog symposium based on this event. Check out our speakers' posts below!

The Sixth 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, Health Affairs, the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, Harvard Health Publications at Harvard Medical School, 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 at Harvard University.

Agenda

8:30-9:00am, Registration

9:00-9:05am, Welcome Remarks

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

  • Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, the Petrie-Flom Center and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School

9:05-10:05am, Health Care Reform: Private Markets

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

  • Audrey Morse Gasteier, Chief of Policy & Strategy, Massachusetts Health Connector

  • Wendy K. Mariner, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law; Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Boston University School of Public Health; and Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

10:05-11:05am, Health Care Reform: Medicaid

  • Benjamin Sommers, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

  • Robert Greenwald, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and Health Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School

  • Judith Solomon, Vice President for Health Policy, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

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

11:05-11:20am, Break

11:20-11:45am, Health IP

11:45am-12:10pm, Drug Pricing

  • Aaron S. Kesselheim, Director, Program on Regulation, Therapeutics and Law, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

12:10-12:35pm, Law and Dementia

  • Francis X. Shen, Senior Fellow in Law and Neuroscience, the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Petrie-Flom Center

12:35-1:20pm, Lunch

1:20-1:45pm, Response to the Opioid Epidemic

  • Gregory Curfman, Editor in Chief, Harvard Health Publications and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

1:45-2:10pm, Discrimination in Health Care: Sexual Orientation and Disability Issues

  • Kevin Costello, Litigation Director, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School

2:10-2:35pm, Charlie Gard and Right to Try Laws

  • Robert D. Truog, Director, Center for Bioethics and Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine, Professor of Anaesthesia (Pediatrics), Harvard Medical School

2:35-3:00pm, Immigration and Health

  • Wendy Parmet, Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Health Policy and Law, Northeastern University School of Law; Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

3:00-3:15pm, Break

3:15-4:15pm, Law & Ethics of Breakthrough Reproductive Technologies: From Gene Editing to In Vitro Gametogenesis

  • Eli Adashi, Professor of Medical Science, the Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University

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

  • George Church, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School and Director, PersonalGenomes.org

  • George Q. Daley, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

4:15-4:40pm, Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law Updates

4:40-5:00pm, Concluding Remarks

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

  • Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, the Petrie-Flom Center and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School

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Slide Presentations

Health Affairs Blog Symposium

Past P/Reviews

How were our health law and policy predictions for 2016? Check out videos of all of the presentations at the 5th Annual Health Law Year in P/Review to find out!

The Sixth 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, Health Affairs, the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, Harvard Health Publications at Harvard Medical School, 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 at Harvard University.


Videos

VIDEO: Welcome

VIDEO: Introduction to Health Care Reform: Private Markets

VIDEO: Joseph Antos, Health Care Reform: Private Markets

VIDEO: Audrey Morse Gasteier, Health Care Reform: Private Markets

VIDEO: Wendy Mariner, Health Care Reform: Private Markets

VIDEO: Audience Q&A on Health Care Reform: Private Markets

VIDEO: Introduction to Health Care Reform: Medicaid

VIDEO: Benjamin Sommers, Health Care Reform: Medicaid

VIDEO: Robert Greenwald, Health Care Reform: Medicaid

VIDEO: Judith Solomon, Health Care Reform: Medicaid

VIDEO: John McDonough, Health Care Reform: Medicaid

VIDEO: Audience Q&A on Health Care Reform: Medicaid

VIDEO: Claire Laporte, Health IP

VIDEO: Aaron Kesselheim, Drug Pricing

VIDEO: Francis Shen, Law and Dementia

VIDEO: Gregory Curfman, Response to the Opioid Epidemic

VIDEO: Kevin Costello, Discrimination in Health Care: Sexual Orientation and Disability Issues

VIDEO: Robert D. Truog, Charlie Gard and Right to Try Laws

VIDEO: Wendy Parmet, Immigration and Health

VIDEO: Introduction to Law & Ethics of Breakthrough Reproductive Technologies: From Gene Editing to In Vitro Gametogenesis

VIDEO: George Church, Law & Ethics of Breakthrough Reproductive Technologies: Gene Editing Technologies

VIDEO: George Daley, Law & Ethics of Breakthrough Reproductive Technologies: The Role of Professional Societies in Regulating New Technologies

VIDEO: Eli Adashi, Law & Ethics of Breakthrough Reproductive Technologies: The US Moratorium on Heritable Genetic Modification

VIDEO: Glenn Cohen, Law & Ethics of Breakthrough Reproductive Technologies: New Reproductive Technologies

VIDEO: Audience Q&A on Law & Ethics of Breakthrough Reproductive Technologies: From Gene Editing to In Vitro Gametogenesis

VIDEO: Michael B. Lampert, Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law Updates

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