波士顿大学法学院主办第39届卫生法教授会议
与会者讨论了《平价医疗法案》、食品和药品法、检疫和患者隐私等动态话题。
Health law scholars from across the country and around the world traveled to 波士顿大学法学院 this June for the 第39届卫生法学教授会议. 该会议是全国最大的卫生法活动，吸引了在法律、医学、公共卫生、卫生保健管理、药学、护理和牙科等学校教授法律或生物伦理学的专业人士。 这是迄今为止规模最大的卫生法教授会议，参会人数破纪录。 It was co-sponsored by the 美国法律、医学和伦理学会 (ASLME), Harvard Law School, and the Northeastern University 法学院.
The conference was founded in 1978 by 乔治•亚那, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, professor of law, and director of the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at BU’s School of Public Health. Originally conceived as a workshop, the sessions attended by its original 47 participants—entitled “Is Health Law a Discipline?” and “Contents of a Health Law Course”—spoke to the newness of the field of health law. 随着会议的发展，ASLME发挥了更大的作用，全国各地的法学院开始主办会议。
整个周末，合作和合作一直是主题。 In his welcoming remarks, N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health and Disability Law and Professor of Law 凯文Outterson noted the many opportunities for collaboration among scholars of health law in Boston, from the many biotechnology companies in the area to the health law policy discussed at universities and hospitals. “Boston is a great health law city,” he said. “We’re proud of the fact that we have a lot of different law schools working together for this event.” Recalling the first time he attended the conference, he noted: “Many of the people I talked to at that first meeting have become great friends. This is my favorite meeting of the year, and it’s because of the people who come back.”
Donald Berwick, former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, kicked off the event with a lecture at Harvard Law School entitled “Radical Redesign of Health Care and its Implications for Policy.” Sidney Wolfe, founder of the Health 新濠影汇线上赌场研究 Group of Public Citizen, addressed the corrupting influence of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 1992 on the Food & Drug Administration’s drug approval process. 在整个周末举行了多场同时举行的会议，重点讨论与公共卫生和卫生法有关的广泛主题。 演讲者和小组成员考虑了食品和药品法、医疗保健法、患者隐私、知情同意的法律原则等许多方面。
Bernstein, Shur， Sawyer & Nelson律师事务所的大卫·索利（David Soley）发表了主旨演讲。 他谈到了他为无国界医生组织（Doctors without Borders）护士凯西·希考克斯（Kaci Hickox）所做的辩护。希考克斯在塞拉利昂治疗埃博拉患者后回国，被两名州长逮捕并强制隔离，尽管她没有表现出埃博拉的任何症状。 Soley argued persuasively in a Maine court that Hickox’s detention was unconstitutional—a reaction to panic by the Governor rather than based on good medicine or public health practice.
The 2016 杰伊·希利教学奖 was presented to Wendy Parmet, Northeastern University 法学院’s Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and director of the Program on Health Policy and Law. The award honors a teacher of health law who embodies the passion and dedication to teaching of its namesake, Jay Healey, one of the founders of the Health Law Professor Conference who tragically died in 1993 from pancreatic cancer.
In a Saturday panel, BU Law’s Nancy Barton 新濠影汇线上赌场研究 Scholar and Professor of Law 凯瑟琳Zeiler presented “沟通和解决方案：数字不加起来,” which considered potential costs and benefits of a new approach to lowering the cost of medical malpractice litigation.
“We invited 50 people to the first conference and almost everyone came,” says 乔治•亚那. “It has been a pleasure to watch the conference grow ever since, and to welcome new and returning participants back to BU Law to celebrate our 39th meeting. It was also fitting to have the conference reception at Boston’s Tea Party Museum, which commemorates a critical event in our nation’s legal history—as well as providing a venue for the conference’s first “open mic” for participants.”
