There has been considerable hype surrounding personalized and precision medicine in the past few years-including President Obama’s 2015 announcement of $215 million for the Precision Medicine Initiative. While some policymakers hail this movement as a pending revolution in healthcare, other commentators are skeptical, arguing that the same funding directed toward the social and behavioral determinants…
In November 2016, Johns Hopkins University Press published Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics, co-edited by Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen, Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Christopher T. Robertson, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, James E. Rogers College of Law, the University of Arizona. This edited…
Youth convicted of murder ordinarily serve decades in prison before they complete a sentence or are paroled. At the time of release, many of them have spent at least half of their entire life and all of their adulthood incarcerated with adults in prisons. What are the outcomes for these youth when released in adulthood?…
Presentation Topic: “While Canada Ventures into Legalized Medical Assistance in Dying, What Can It Learn from the Belgian Euthanasia Experience?” This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please contact Jennifer Minnich at jminnich@law.harvard.edu. About the Presenter Trudo Lemmens is Professor and Scholl Chair in Health Law…
For over 35 years, the “14-Day Rule,” prohibiting in vitro experimentation on embryos beyond 14 days, stood as an ethical line in the sand for embryo research around the world. Throughout the arc of the rule’s existence it had not been questioned, as scientists had been unable to grow embryos in vitro either up to,…
Care for advanced illness is moving beyond the hospital and physician office and into the home and community. Addressing the needs of the individual with advanced illness increasingly requires an interdisciplinary team of providers, with significant policy implications. This panel discussion featured voices across specialties and professions addressing clinical and policy solutions. Speakers This event…
Concurrent, or overlapping, surgeries involve the simultaneous scheduling of substantial portions of two or more surgeries under the supervision of a single surgeon, requiring delegation of responsibility to trainees and assistants if necessary. The practice is not uncommon, especially at teaching hospitals, but patients often have no idea that their doctor may also be operating…
As we approached the 2016 presidential election and change of administration, there were many questions about the future of health policy that the 45th President and Congress will have to address starting in 2017. This event brought together health care experts from both sides of the aisle to discuss what health care will – and…
Presentation Topic: “Social Norms, Legal Foundations, and Noncommunicable Disease Prevention” This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please contact Jennifer Minnich at jminnich@law.harvard.edu. About the Presenter Lindsay Wiley is Associate Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law at American University. She teaches torts, health law, and…
Presentation Topic: “Regulating Black-Box Medicine” This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please contact Jennifer Minnich at jminnich@law.harvard.edu. About the Presenter Nicholson Price is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Law, where he teaches Patents, Health Law, and first-year Property, among other courses. He…
