Seventh Annual Health Law Year in P/Review
Description
At the Seventh Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium, leading experts discussed major developments during 2018 and what to watch out for in 2019. Speakers covered hot topics including health policy under the current administration, pharmaceutical policy, and public health law. Featured panels explored “Challenges Facing Health Care General Counsels” and “AI in Health Care.”
The conference also featured a special Fireside Chat with Stacy Cline Amin:
Stacy Cline Amin, JD ’04, serves as Chief Counsel of the Food and Drug Administration and Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services. Stacy previously served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Associate Counsel to the President, serving as the senior legal advisor on matters relating to the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to joining the White House, Stacy served as the Chief Counsel of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and as a Counsel for the House Energy & Commerce Committee. Earlier in her career, she served as an Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and as a law clerk to the Hon. John R. Gibson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and summa cum laude from The George Washington University.
This event was free and open to the public.
Agenda
8:55 – 9:00am, Welcome Remarks
9:00 – 9:30am, Genetics in Criminal Law
9:30 – 10:45, Panel Discussion: Challenges Facing Health Care General Counsels
10:45 – 11:30am, The Current Status of the Ebola Epidemic
11:30am – 12:00pm, Developments in Fraud and Abuse
- Michael Loucks, Partner, Health Care and Life Sciences, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
12:00 – 1:00pm, The FDA in 2019: A Fireside Chat
1:00 – 1:45pm, Lunch
1:45 – 2:45pm, Panel Discussion: AI in Health Care
2:45 – 3:00pm, Break
3:00 – 3:45pm, The Role of Providers in the Opioid Epidemic
3:45 – 4:15pm, Current ACA Litigation
- Joel McElvain, Senior Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Scholar, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School
4:15 – 4:45pm, Orphan Drug Act
- Amitabh Chandra, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy and Director of Health Policy Research, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; and Chair Editor, Review of Economics and Statistics
4:45 – 5:15pm, Climate Change and Health
5:15pm, Closing Remarks
Past P/Reviews
How were our health law and policy predictions for 2018? Check out videos of all of the presentations at the 6th Annual Health Law Year in P/Review or the blog symposium hosted by Health Affairs!
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Blog Posts
- Aziza Ahmed, “Ethical Concerns of DNA Databases used for Crime Control”
- Joel McElvain, “Administration’s Guidance on State Innovation Waivers under the ACA Violates the Act’s Statutory Guardrails”
- Renee N. Salas, “Climate Change is Harming Health and the Treatment is Medicine, Law, and Bioethics”
- Alicia Ely Yamin, “Ebola… again: What have we learned?”
- Stephen Wood, “The Emergency Department is The “New” Frontier of Public Health”
The Seventh Annual Health Law Year in P/Review is sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, with support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.