Conference - Health Law 2004 - Schedule

National Health Law Conference 2004: Speakers and Presentations

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Thursday 22 January 2004
4.15pm	Public Lecture by Professor Lawrence O. Gostin (Georgetown University) in Honour of the Career of Professor Bernard Dickens Sponsored by Borden Ladner Gervais: The Legal and Ethical Aspects of SARS See Prof. Gostin's article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Gostin L, Bayer R, and Fairchild A, "Ethical and Legal Challenges Posed by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Implications for the Control of Severe Infectious Disease Threats" JAMA 2003; 290:3229-3237.
Friday 23 January 2004 Queen Victoria Ballroom, Sutton Place Hotel, 955 Bay Street
9.00	Charter and Administrative Challenges to Governmental Restraints on Publicly-Funded Health Care Chair: Bill Lahey Speakers Donna Greschner: Judicial Involvement with Health Care Policies: First, Do No Harm Martha Jackman: Section 7 Constraints on Health Care Decision Making Colleen Flood: How Decisions are Made About What is In and Out of Medicare
10.45	Access to Emergency Contraception and Abortion Services Chair: Shelley Gavigan Speakers Rebecca Cook: Womens Access to Health Services: The Case of Emergency Contraception (See article: RJ Cook and BM Dickens, "Access to Emergency Contraception", Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Canada 25(11): 914-6 (2003).") Robert Kouri: Access to Emergency Contraception and Abortion Services in the Province of Quebec Sanda Rodgers: Abortion Denied: Bearing the Limits of Law
12.15	Lunch Wellesley Room, Sutton Place Hotel Professor Bernard Dickens will make a short speech at the luncheon "The Evolution of Medical Law: In from the Cold, to the Centre of the Heat"
1.30	Control at the Scientific Gate: Conflicts of Interest in Medical Research -- Sponsored by the Ontario Genomics Institute (Genome Canada) Chaired by Mary-Anne Bobinski Speakers Trudo Lemmens: From Ethics Review to Regulation: Why Medical Research Needs A Tighter Regulatory Structure Jocelyn Downie: Competing Interests and Obligations in the Governance of Health Research Kathleen Glass: Providing Care in the Context of Research: Facing the Conflicts of Interest
3.15	Paper Presentations by Students (Winners of National Paper Competition) Sponsored by Weir Foulds Chaired by Kate Dewhirst Speakers Ruby Philip-Katyal: Telemedicine and Beyond: An Analysis of Tort Liability, Privacy and Globalisation in Canada and the U.S. Janesca Kydd: Attempting to Address the Rural Aboriginal Health Gap: An Examination of Romanows Recommendations Lorian Hardcastle: Governmental and Institutional Liability for Health Care in Canada
Saturday 24 January 2004 Queen Victoria Ballroom, Sutton Place Hotel, 955 Bay Street
9.00am	Health Care Providers Control of Access: Conflicts of Interest Chair: Fiona Bergin Speakers Sujit Choudhry: Unregulated Markets for Private Health Care in Canada? The Legality of Kickbacks to Physicians and Physician Self-Referral Joan Gilmour: Health Care Providers: The Many Faces of Conflict of Interest Richard Saver: Gain-sharing and the Continuing Dilemma of Physician Financial Incentives
10.45	Accessing Health Care in the Developing World and by Vulnerable Populations in Canada Chair: Alison Harvison Young Speakers Lisa Forman: Claiming Equity and Justice in Health: Enforcing the South African Right to Health to Ensure Access to Antiretroviral Medicines Sheila Wildeman: Access to Psychiatric Treatment: Enabling Treatment or Enabling Choice? Constance McIntosh:
12.15	Lunch Wellesley Room, Sutton Place Hotel Luncheon speaker: Michael Decter "Canada's Dysfunctional Health Family: Bringing Up the Baby Health Council"
1.30	International Trade Agreements and Access to Health Care Chaired by Moe Litman Speakers Tracey Epps: Merchants in the Temple? The Implications of the GATS on Canada's Health Care System Richard Gold: Access to Health Care: International Constraints Roxanne Mykitiuk: Public Investment/Private Profit: Trade, Benefit Sharing and Access to Health in the Genomic Age Andre den Exter: The European Court of Justice and access to (cross-border) health care in the European Union
3.15	Manipulating Access, Selling Disease: The Effect of Marketing on Access Chair: Elaine Gibson Speakers Tim Caulfield: The Media, Marketing and Genetic Services Patricia Peppin: Manipulating Access, Selling Disease: The Effect of Marketing on Access Erin Nelson: Informed Consent in the (Mis)Information Age
5.00	Concluding remarks and close of conference

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