Health Law, Ethics & Policy Seminar Series: Matthew Herder

HEALTH LAW, ETHICS & POLICY SEMINAR SERIES 

presents 

Matthew Herder
Associate Professor
Faculties of Medicine and Law, Dalhousie University 

In Dialogue: Transparency and Fraud in
Pharmaceutical Regulation 

Commentator: Trudo Lemmens
Professor and Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy, University of Toronto

12:30 – 2:00
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Solarium (room FA2) – Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park 

Making pharmaceutical research and regulation more transparent is a major contemporary policy focus. But transparency has a long history in Canadian drug regulation. This presentation will detail that history and the dynamic relation between the Canadian drug regulator's commitment to transparency and approach to policing fraud in the pharmaceutical industry. 

Professor Herder teaches primarily in the Faculty of Medicine, across the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculums, on a variety of health law topics, including informed consent, patient-physician confidentiality, and regulation of the medical profession. Prior to arriving at Dalhousie, he taught in the areas of bioethics and intellectual property law at Loyola University Chicago’s School of Law.  Professor Herder’s research interests cluster around biomedical innovation policy, with particular focus on intellectual property law and practices connected to the commercialization of scientific research. As part of a three-year research project funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Professor Herder (Principal Investigator) and a team of interdisciplinary researchers are currently collecting empirical evidence about the inter-relationships between commercialization laws, policies, and practices and emerging health researchers. The team will use the collected empirical evidence to explore a series of normative questions about the ongoing commercialization of academic science.

A light lunch will be served. 

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