Nola M. Ries
Research Associate
Nola M. Ries, B.A. (Hons.), J.D., M.P.A., LL.M.
Phone (250) 520-9251 (at the University of Victoria)
Email: nries@law.ualberta.ca
Nola M. Ries is a Research Associate with the HLI and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria where she teaches courses in health law with the Faculty of Law and School of Health Information Science. Since joining the HLI in 2003, Nola's work has focused on: public health law; health information and privacy; health system reform, resource allocation and access to health care; and legal issues in genetics and biotechnology. She has authored over 40 articles, book chapters and major reports on various topics in health law and policy and co-edited and contributed to the writing of the books, "Public Health Law and Policy in Canada" (Butterworths, 1st ed. 2005 & 2nd ed. 2008) and "Nutrition and Genomics: Issues of Ethics, Law, Regulation & Communication" (Elsevier, 2009). Nola has presented at events across Canada, as well as in the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. She consults to a range of health sector organizations and is a past editor of the Health Law Journal and Health Law Review. Nola was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1999 and has practiced in areas of constitutional, administrative and human rights law.
PUBLICATIONS
A. Books
Forthcoming
Nutrition and Genomics: Issues of Ethics, Law, Regulation & Communication, co-edited with David Castle, under contract with Elsevier (to be published in Autumn 2008).
Public Health Law and Policy in Canada, 2nd edition, co-edited with Tracey M. Bailey and Timothy Caulfield, under contract with LexisNexis Canada (to be published in Autumn 2008).
Published
Public Health Law and Policy in Canada, co-edited with Tracey M. Bailey and Timothy Caulfield (Scarborough, Ont.: LexisNexis Canada, 2005).
B. Chapters in Books and Encyclopedias
Forthcoming
Nola M. Ries, “Legal Issues in Health Information and Electronic Health Records” in The Human and Social Side of Health Information Systems, edited by Andre Kushniruk & Elizabeth Borycki (Hershey, PA: Idea Group Inc., 2008).
Conrad G. Brunk, Nola M. Ries & Leslie C. Rodgers, “Regulatory and Innovation Implications of Religious and Ethical Sensitivities Concerning GM Food” in Acceptable Genes: Religious Traditions and Genetically Modified Foods, edited by Conrad Brunk and Harold Coward (SUNY Press, 2008).
Published
Christen Rachul, Nola Ries & Timothy Caulfield, "Canadian newspaper coverage of the A/H1N1vaccine program" (2011) 102 Canadian Journal of Public Health 200.
Nola M. Ries, Christen Rachul & Timothy Caulfield, "Newspaper reporting on legislative and policy interventions to address obesity: United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom" (2011) 32 Journal of Public Health 73.
Timothy Caulfield, Nola Ries et al., "Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: good, bad or benign" (2009) Clinical Genetics, doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2009.01291.x.
Nola M. Ries, “Charter Challenges” in Canadian Health Law & Policy, 3rd ed., edited by Jocelyn Downie, Timothy Caulfield & Colleen M. Flood (Markham, Ont.: LexisNexis Canada, 2007) pp. 539-570.
Timothy Caulfield & Nola M. Ries, “Public Opinion, Consent and Population Genetic Biobanks” in Genomics and Public Health: Legal and Socio-Ethical Perspectives, edited by Bartha Maria Knoppers (Martinus Nijhoff, 2006).
Nola M. Ries “Quarantine: Lessons from Canada’s Experience with SARS”, book chapter in Ethics and Epidemics, vol. 9, Advances in Bioethics series (Elsevier Publications, 2006) pp. 43-67.
Timothy Caulfield and Nola M. Ries “Politics and Paradoxes: Chaoulli and the Alberta Reaction” The Legal Debate over Private Health Insurance in Canada, edited by Colleen M. Flood, Kent Roach, and Lorne Sossin (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) pp. 413-428.
Nola M. Ries “Medical Law in Canada – Update, 1999 to 2003” in International Encyclopedia of Laws (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004).
C. Articles
Forthcoming
Nola M. Ries, “Piling on the Laws, Shedding the Pounds? The Use of Legal Tools to Address Obesity” (2008) Health Law Journal.
Nola M. Ries, “Growing Up as a Research Subject: Ethical and Legal Issues in Birth Cohort Studies Involving Genetic Research” (2007) Health Law Journal.
Published
New Publication: Nola Ries, Jane LeGrander & Timothy Caulfield, "Handling ethical, legal and social issues in birth cohort studies involving genetic research: responses from studies in six countries" (2010) 11:4 BMC Medical Ethics.
Nola Ries & Barbara von Tigerstrom, "Roadblocks to Laws for Health Eating and Activity" (2010) 182 CMAJ 1.
Nola M. Ries, Robyn Hyde-Lay & Timothy Caulfield, "Willingness to Pay for Genetic Testing: A Study of Attitudes in a Canadian Population" (2009) Public Health Genomics (Published online: DOI:10.1159/000253120).
Jennifer Farrell, Nola M. Ries, Natasha Kachan and Heather Boon, "Foods and natural health products: Gaps and ambiguities in the Canadian regulatory regime" (2009) 34 Food Policy 388.
Jennifer Farrell, Nola M. Ries & Heather Boon, “Pharmacists and Natural Health Products:
A Systematic Analysis of Professional Responsibilities in Canada” (2008) 6:1 Pharmacy Practice 33-42.
Nola M. Ries, “Food, Fat and the Law: A Comment on Trans Fat Bans and Public Health” (2007) 23 Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues 17.
David Castle & Nola M. Ries, “Ethical, Legal & Social Issues in Nutrigenomics: The Challenges of Regulating Service Delivery and Building Health Professional Capacity” (2007) 622:1-2 Mutation Research 138.
Nola M. Ries, “Legal Issues in Disease Outbreaks: Judicial Review of Public Health Powers” (2007) 16:1 Health Law Review 11.
Nola M. Ries & Timothy Caulfield, “First Pharmacogenomics, Next Nutrigenomics: Genohype or Genohealthy?” (2006) 46 Jurimetrics 281.
Nola M. Ries “Patient Privacy in a Wired (and Wireless) World: Approaches to Consent in the Context of Electronic Health Records” (2006) 43:3 Alberta Law Review 681.
Nola M. Ries “Legal Rights, Constitutional Controversies, and Access to Health Care: Lessons from Canada” (2006) 25: 1 Medicine and Law.
Tracey M. Bailey and Nola M. Ries “Legal Issues in Patient Safety: The Example of Nosocomial Infection” (2005) 8 Healthcare Quarterly (Special Edition) 140.
Nola M. Ries “Quarantine and the Law: The 2003 SARS Experience in Canada (A New Disease Calls on Old Public Health Tools” (2005) 43 Alberta Law Review.
Nola M. Ries “Regulation of Human Stem Cell Research in Canada and Japan: A Comparative Analysis” (2005) 4 University of New Brunswick Law Journal 62.
Nola M. Ries and Timothy Caulfield “Legal Foundations of a National Public Health Agency in Canada” (2005) 96 Canadian Journal of Public Health 281.
Nola M. Ries and Geoff Moysa “Legal Protections of Electronic Health Records: Issues of Consent and Security” (2005) 14:1 Health Law Review 18.
Nola M. Ries “Public Health Law and Ethics: Lessons from SARS and Quarantine” (2004) 13 Health Law Review 3.
Timothy Caulfield and Nola M. Ries “Consent, Privacy and Confidentiality in Longitudinal, Population Health Research: The Canadian Legal Context” (2004) Health Law Journal Supplement 1-65.
Nola M. Ries “Human Dignity and Biotechnology” (2004) 5 Journal of the Centre for International Studies, Aichi Gakuin University 49.
Nola M. Ries “Public Health Care Services System and the Constitution of Canada” (2004) 5 Journal of the Centre for International Studies, Aichi Gakuin University 55.
Nola M. Ries “The Uncertain State of the Law Regarding Section 15 of the Charter and Access to Public Health Care” (2003) 11 Health Law Journal 217.
Nola M. Ries “A Section 7 Charter Right to Health Care? Don’t Hold Your Breath” (2003) 12 Health Law Review 29.
D. Major Reports
Published
"Analysis of Privacy Policies and Practices of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Companies: Private Sector Databanks and Privacy Protection Norms", Report Commissioned by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, March 2010.
David Hailey, Phil Jacobs, Nola M. Ries, Michael Gardam, Sarah Normadin & Julie Polisena, Reprocessing of Single-Use Medical Devices: Clinical, Economic and Health Services Impact (Ottawa, Ont.: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health, 2008). Online: http://cadth.ca/media/pdf/334B_Reprocessing-SUDs-Canada-Clinical-Economic_tr_e.pdf
Nola M. Ries & Jacob J. Shelley, eds., Food, Health and Biotechnology: Consumer and Social Issues in Canada’s New Food and Health Products Industries (Victoria, BC: Advanced Foods and Materials Network, 2007).
Gabriela Prada, Julia Swettenham, Nola M. Ries and Julia Martin, Liability Risks in Interdisciplinary Care: Thinking Outside the Box (Ottawa: Conference Board of Canada, April 2007).
Nola M. Ries and Timothy Caulfield, Mechanisms of Citizen Accountability in the Canadian Health Care System: A Discussion of Approaches based on Legal Entitlements (Ottawa: Canadian Policy Research Network, May 2004).
E. Commentary
Published
Nola M. Ries, “Current Issues in Regulation of Canadian Health Care Professionals” LawNow (December 2007).
Nola M. Ries, “Should Government Regulate Obesity?” The Lawyers Weekly (26 April 2007) vol. 26, no. 48.
Timothy Caulfield and Nola M. Ries “Research Databanks Pose a Dilemma of Consent” University of Alberta ExpressNews, July 23, 2004.
Timothy Caulfield and Nola M. Ries “What will cure the health system?” Edmonton Journal, July 7, 2004, A11.
Nola M. Ries “Human Stem Cell Research Regulation in Japan” (2004) 16 CELLlines 4.
Nola M. Ries “Health Care in the Courts: Waiting for Care, Waiting for Answers” University of Alberta ExpressNews, February 27, 2004.
Nola M. Ries and Stacey E. Grubb, “Special Report on Intellectual Property: Patents and Your Health” (2003) 28:3 LawNow 30.
Nola M. Ries “Life Support for Health Care in Canada” (Commentary on the Romanow and Kirby Reports) (2003) 27:5 LawNow 9.
F. Commissioned Papers
Nola M. Ries, The Scope, Tools and Aims of Public Health Law. Paper commissioned by the Public Health Agency of Canada, March 2007.
Nola M. Ries, Public Health Information & Surveillance. Course Module for Health Information Access and Privacy Course, commissioned by University of Alberta, Information Access and Privacy Program, 2006.
Nola M. Ries, Legal Liability Issues in Collaborative Health Care. Paper commissioned by the Conference Board of Canada, 2006.
Nola M. Ries, Electronic Health Records and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. Paper commissioned by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. [Bibliography]
Nola M. Ries, Legal Principles Applicable to Research Involving Stored Human Blood. Paper commissioned by the Canadian Blood Services, September 2004.
Nola M. Ries, Banking of Human Tissues and Current Controversies. Paper commissioned by the Canadian Blood Services, September 2004.
Nola M. Ries, Legal Interpretations of Disability, Discrimination and Privacy and their Application to Concerns regarding Use of Genetic Information. Paper commissioned by Government of Canada, Department of Justice, April 2003.
Nola M. Ries, Charter Challenges regarding Delays in Accessing Health Care Services due to Waiting Lists. Paper commissioned by the Canadian Orthopaedic Association in relation to their Supreme Court of Canada intervener application in Chaoulli v. Québec, October 2003.
G. Other Publications
Nola M. Ries “Legal Rights, Constitutional Controversies, and Access to Health Care: Lessons From Canada” (2004) Congress Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Medical Law (Sydney, Australia), World Association for Medical Law.
