Networking
HLI staff, Research Fellows and students attend numerous health law related conferences each year in Canada and internationally, presenting the results of our research or delivering educational sessions.
Highlights for 2008
Tracey M. Bailey, Executive Director, presented on "Legal and Ethical Issues in a Major Assessment on Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Canadians" at the Oral Health Workshop, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in Toronto on September 22, 2008.
Timothy Caulfield, Research Director, presented on "Markets, Media and Public Representations of Genetics and Race" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in April, 2008.
Timothy Caulfield, Research Director, presented on "Hope, Hype and Quackery? A Study of the Current Market for Stem Cell Therapies" at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in June 2008.
Timothy Caulfield, Research Director, presented on "What are the Foundations of Governance for Biobanking?" at the 2008 Annual Conference on Governing Biobanks at Oxford University, Oxford, England in June 2008.
Timothy Caulfield, Research Director, presented on "Research Ethics for Whole Genome Research" at the International Symposium on Applied Genomics in Tokyo, Japan in December 2008.
Nola Ries, Research Associate, presented on "Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests: Regulatory Approaches and Public Health Concerns" at the American Public Health Association Annual Conference in San Diego, California in October 2008.
See all our conference attendances and educational presentations in 2008 here.
Visions National Health Law Conference
In 2007, the Health Law Institute hosted the very successful Visions National Health Law Conference in Banff, Alberta from November 8 - 10, 2007.
The conference was attended by approximately 120 academics, lawyers and health professionals from across the country. The conference opened with the Picard Lecture which was a panel discussion on health care reform. The panel was chaired by Tracey M. Bailey, Executive Director of the Health Law Institute, with presentations from Colleen Flood, Marie-Claude Prémont, and Robert Evans. Sessions were held over two days with leading scholars from across Canada speaking on emerging topics in health law including: research challenges; liability issues; technologies; paradigms; gaps; and health issues. The book launch for the third edition of Canadian Health Law and Policy edited by Jocelyn Downie, Timothy Caulfield and Colleen Flood was held at a reception which also featured poster presentations from students.
Madame Justice Ellen Picard of the Alberta Court of Appeal commented on the conference as follows: "The conference was the best that I have been to in many years. Congratulations to the organizers. It was a joy to realize the incredible achievements of the senior participants and to see the enthusiasm and exciting research of the junior. All are united in their committment to health law. That this would occur, was my dream of thirty years ago."
Papers from the conference have been published in a special edition of the Health Law Journal.
