Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues Couldn’t attend the event? Check out selected speakers’ slide presentations! 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…
Looking for more on this topic now that the election has been decided? Check out our 5th Annual Health Law Year in P/Review on January 23, 2017. At this full-day event, we will discuss major developments during 2016 and what to watch out for in 2017. The event will begin with a panel of leading…
What Works and Why In September 2016, the Federal Judicial Center hosted a workshop for federal judges and law enforcement officials on issues relating to pretrial diversionary courts, exploring the question of “What Works and Why?” with a focus on our increasing understanding of the neuroscience behind trauma, mental health, and addiction, as well as…
Why the Time is Right to Transform Advanced Care Couldn’t join us in person? Join the conversation on Twitter! @PetrieFlom and @CTACorg are live-tweeting using #POAC #advancedcare Description This conference was the inaugural event of the Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy, a collaboration between the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and the…
Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics Couldn’t join us in person? Check out the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom and #BigDataandHealthLaw! The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School 2016 annual conference focused on “Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics.” The conference was organized in collaboration with the Berkman Klein…
Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out more information, including related publications and our speakers’ slides, below! Description Approximately 2,000 youth sentenced to life without parole are now serving unconstitutional sentences in US prisons. What is the role for psychology and neuroscience in resentencing and parole after Miller and Montgomery? Two experts in forensic…
Couldn’t attend the event? Check out some of our speakers’ slide presentations! Panelists Topic: The National Security Implications of the Genetics Revolution Topic: Post-9/11 Uses of Public Health and Medicine by National Security Agencies Topic: National Security and Biology Learn More Select speakers’ slide presentations: This event was free and open to the public. Cosponsored…
The Petrie-Flom Center’s 10th Anniversary Conference Celebration The Petrie-Flom Center celebrated its first decade and kicked off the next by looking at the future of health law and policy! The Center brought together Petrie-Flom and other prominent Harvard Law School alumni to discuss major trends, developments, and open questions in the fields of health law…
A Lecture by Mary Anne Bobinski Couldn’t attend the event? Check out some of our speakers’ slide presentations! Description It is often said that health care has moved from paternalism, in the form of “doctor knows best,” to consumerism, in which patients expect to be able to obtain treatment consistent with their values and preferences….
People with Disabilities and Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis A lecture by Tom Shakespeare About the Speaker Tom Shakespeare is Senior Lecturer at Norwich Medical School, the University of East Anglia. From his website: My primary research interests are in disability studies, medical sociology, and in social and ethical aspects of genetics. I have had a long…
