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

Description

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

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

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

11:05-11:20am, Break

11:20-11:45am, Health IP

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

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

12:35-1:20pm, Lunch

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

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

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

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

3:00-3:15pm, Break

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

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

4:40-5:00pm, Concluding Remarks

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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.