Please join us for a talk by Professors Howard Kyongju Koh and Harold Hongju Koh regarding the battle for global tobacco control and what we as concerned global citizens should do. Howard Kyongju Koh MD, MPH is Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of…
Neurologists who treat epilepsy face substantial difficulty distinguishing “true” seizures caused by abnormal electrical discharges from seizures that are caused by psychological factors (psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, or PNES). The distinction is important, because the treatments for electrical seizures and PNES are very different–PNES can be provoked by a suggestion, whereas electrical seizures cannot. Can doctors…
Presentation Topic: “Reforming the Medical Liability System in New York: Outcomes of the New York State Medical Liability Reform and Patient Safety Demonstration Project.” This paper is not available for download. To request a copy, please contact Jennifer Minnich at jminnich@law.harvard.edu. About the Presenter Michelle M. Mello is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School…
The Fourth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium featured leading experts discussing major developments during 2015 and what to watch out for in 2016. The discussion at this day-long event covered hot topics in such areas as health insurance, health care systems, public health, innovation, and other issues facing clinicians and patients. Agenda 8:00…
The Petrie-Flom Center hosted a conversation with former FDA Commissioner (and former New York City Health Commissioner), Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, led by Peter Barton Hutt, former Chief Counsel to FDA and current Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP and Lecturer on Law at HLS. Topics discussed included FDA’s role and the changing scientific,…
Bringing medicines to patients to address unmet medical needs is the goal of most physicians in pharmaceutical research. However, few situations are more difficult for physicians in research than deciding how to help patients with life threatening conditions who seek “compassionate access” to investigational medicines outside of clinical trials. Many factors need to be taken…
Connecting the human brain to a computer is no longer science fiction. Patients unable to control their bodies will soon be able to control computers and external devices, like wheelchairs, using only mental processes, by means of a brain-computer interface. At this panel discussion, investigators at the cutting edge of brain-computer interface technology discussed the…
Presentation Download the Presentation: “And If Your Friends Jumped Off a Bridge, Would You Do It Too?”: How Developmental Neuroscience Can Inform Regimes Governing Adolescents (co-authored with Michael N. Tennison) About the Presenter Amanda C. Pustilnik is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law, where she teaches Criminal Law,…
Presentation Download the presentation: “Uncertainty and the Eighth Amendment” About the Presenter Seema Shah is a faculty member in the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Department of Bioethics and has a joint appointment at the Division of AIDS. Her research focuses on the ethics of international research, the ethics of research with children, and…
Many important advances in human health depend on the effective collection, storage, use, and sharing of biological specimens and their associated data. However, recent controversies involving specimen-based research have raised important questions about ownership, data-sharing, privacy considerations, group harms, and standards for responsible specimen stewardship. This symposium addressed key ethical and policy issues raised by…
