Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 12:30pm to Friday, February 12, 2016 - 1:55pm
Location: 
Solarium (room FA2) Falconer Hall - 84 Queen's Park

PLEASE NOTE NEW TOPIC

HEALTH LAW, ETHICS & POLICY SEMINAR SERIES 
p
resents 

Frank Pasquale
Professor, Francis King Carey School of Law
University of Maryland 

Data Acquisition and Consent:
Best Practices for an Era of Learning Health Care Systems

Commentator: 

Michael Da Silva
 SJD Candidate, University of Toronto Faculty of Law and
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar 

12:30 – 2:00
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Solarium (room FA2) – Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park

 Professor Pasquale’s presentation will be by video-conferencing 

Frank Pasquale’s research addresses the challenges posed to information law by rapidly changing technology, particularly in the health care, internet, and finance industries. He is a member of the NSF-funded Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society, and an Affiliate Fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project.  He frequently presents on the ethical, legal, and social implications of information technology for attorneys, physicians, and other health professionals. His book The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information (Harvard University Press, 2015) develops a social theory of reputation, search, and finance.  Pasquale has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology, and a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and Cardozo Law School. He was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University. He has testified before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, appearing with the General Counsels of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. He has also presented before a Department of Health & Human Services/Federal Trade Commission Roundtable and panels of the National Academy of Sciences. He served on an American Academy of Arts and Sciences working group on the future of mobile health (mHealth) regulation.  He has received a commission from Triple Canopy to write and present on the political economy of automation.  Pasquale serves on the Advisory Boards of the Data Competition Institute, Patient Privacy Rights and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Legal Education and the Oxford Handbooks Online in Law. He has served on the executive board of the Health Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS), and has served as chair of the AALS section on Privacy and Defamation. He has been quoted in the Financial Times, New York Times, Economist, CNN, and many other media outlets. 

Joint seminar with the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy 

A light lunch will be served. 

 

 

For more information about this workshop, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.