The Center for Health and the Social Sciences is honored to host a special workshop series in tribute to Regis J. Fallon. The Regis J. Fallon Lecture Series on Health and Law will focus attention on the leading issues at the interface of health and the law, bringing together students and experts from campus and beyond to fuel productive discussion across these disciplines and helping the University to become an increasingly important contributor to innovative research and training at this important interface. Workshops will be held twice each academic year. For more information, contact Elmer Abbo at eabbo@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.
May 14, 2012
12-1pm
University of Chicago Medical Center
Room
P-117
"Non-Consensual Access to Data for Research and Public Health"
Featuring Barbara Evans, JD, Phd
Professor of Law, University of Houston
Co-Director, Health Law & Policy Institute
Director, Center on Biotechnology & Law
Recent legislation envisions heavy use of studies that "repurpose" data from patients' actual encounters with the healthcare system to generate evidence to support regulatory, policy, and clinical decision-making. Observational methodologies are poised to play an important role in 21st-century biomedical research and public health, but only if the United States comes to terms with a difficult truth: Drawing valid inferences requires access to high-quality, inclusive, longitudinally linked data resources, and creating these resources often requires at least some nonconsensual access to identifiable health information. Existing federal regulations actually allow such access but do so in a way that angers data users and privacy advocates alike. This lecture explores alternatives for strengthening and rationalizing the federal regulatory framework for managing nonconsensual access to identifiable health information.
February 27, 2012
"Legal Solutions for Ensuring Decision Aid Quality"
Assistant Professor of Law, Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
May 9, 2011
"The Histories of American Health Insurance: Three Narratives and the Affordable Care Act"
Robert L. Willet Family Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law
February 28, 2011
"The Impact of Health Reform on Physicians and Hospitals"
Director, Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy, Loyola University Chicago
May 26, 2010
"How Not to Do Medical Malpractice Reform"
David A. Hyman, BA, JD, MD
Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor, University of Illinois College of Law
2009
"From Evidence to Practice: Can Coverage and Payment Policy Change Physician Behavior?"
Susan Foote
Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
January 22, 2009
"Discussing End-of-Life Options: Are Statues the Solution?"
Alan Meisel
Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote Professor of Bioethics, and Professor of Law and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
April 24, 2008
"Fairness in Health Care: Who Pays? Who Benefits?"
Clark Havighurst
William Neal Reynolds Professor Emeritus of Law
January 17, 2008
"The Abortion Wars and the Gonzales vs. Carhart Decision"
Bruce Patsner, MD, JD
Professor at the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center
April 19, 2007
"The Food and Drug Administration: How Safe? How Effective?"
David Kessler, MD, JD
Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine and vice chancellor for Medical Affairs
Richard Epstein, LLD, HC
James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago
January 25, 2007
"The Law and Ethics of Medical Fees: A Brief Historical View"
Mark A. Hall, JD
Fred D. and Elizabeth L. Turnage Professor of Law at Wake Forest University
May 2, 2006
"Clinical Trials, Drug Marketing, Off-Label Prescribing, and the Law"
Sandra H. Johnson, JD, LLM
Tenet Endowed Chair in Health Law and Ethics in the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University School of Law