In This Issue
Friday, May 29, 2015

NEW EVENT:
Reception at ASLME 38th Annual Health Law Professors Conference

June 4, 2015, 7:30 - 9:30 PM 

Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark
1 South Broadway, St. Louis, MO

 

Come learn more about the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School at this jointly-hosted dessert reception at the 2015 annual ASLME Health Law Professors Conference.

 

We hope to see you there!

 

Cosponsored by the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. For more information, contact Brooke Tempesta. 
AGENDA NOW AVAILABLE:
Visible Solutions: How Neuroimaging Helps Law Re-envision Pain

June 30, 2015, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A

Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
 

Can brain imaging be a "pain-o-meter" that tells courts when a person is in pain?  Can fMRI help us discern whether intractable chronic pain is "all in your head" or all in the brain - or will it require us to reconsider that distinction? Leading neuroscientists, legal scholars, and bioethicists will debate standards and limits on how the law can use brain science to get smarter about a subject that touches everyone.


For a full agenda and to register for this event, visit our website!
Scholarship from Petrie-Flom Associates
Ensuring the Safe and Effective FDA Regulation of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

Rachel Sachs (Academic Fellow) and Carolyn Edelstein

Journal of Law & the Biosciences (peer reviewed), forthcoming 2015

News from Petrie-Flom Associates
New Blood-Donor Policy, Same Gay Stigma 
I. Glenn Cohen and Eli Y. Adashi
New York Times, May 21, 2015 
Petrie-Flom Student Fellow Lauren Taylor is "Ready to change the world"
Colleen Walsh,quoting Lauren A. Taylor (Student Fellow)
Harvard Gazette, May 28, 2015 
Congress seeks to quash patent trolls

Heidi Ledford, quoting W. Nicholson Price II (Academic Fellow Alumnus)

Nature News, May 20, 2015
From the Blog
Blog Recent posts from Bill of Health! 

 

Health insurance, health care reform/finance:

Bioethics:
Petrie-Flom Events

Check out our website for a more complete listing of events scheduled for 2015. Remember, you can find materials from many of our events, including slide presentations and full event videos, online in our events archive. 

 

The academic year is coming to a close, check back soon for news on these and other fall 2015 events.

NEW EVENT!

Petrie-Flom / Center for Bioethics Reception at ASLME 38th Annual Health Law Professors Conference

June 4, 2015, 7:30 - 9:30 PM

Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark
1 South Broadway, St. Louis, MO

 

Cosponsored by the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. For more information, contact Brooke Tempesta.

Visible Solutions: How Neuroimaging Helps Law Re-envision Pain

June 30, 2015, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A
Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA

 

For a full agenda and to register, please visit our website.

NEW EVENT!

From Troubled Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law

September 28, 2015, 4:00 PM

Location: TBD
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 

Law and Moral Enhancement: A lecture by Julian Savulescu

October 20, 2015, 12:00 PM

Location: TBD
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 

REGISTER NOW!

Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications

November 16, 2015, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 

Location: TBD
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
New Event Videos
Petrie-Flom Center, May 22, 2015

Health Law Policy & Bioethics Workshops
The 2014-2015  Health Law Policy and Bioethics Workshops  have concluded. Workshops will resume in fall 2015, and we will post the schedule of presenters here and on our website when it becomes available in late summer.
Outside Events
Rethinking the "Therapeutic Misconception" in Clinical Research

June 8, 2015

Smith Family Room, Dana 1620, 450 Brookline Ave.. Boston, MA 02115

 

Stakeholder Perspectives on Noninvasive Prenatal Genetic Screening

July 16, 2015
Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square, 801 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Opportunities at Harvard
Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School
Application Deadline: August 7, 2015

Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School
Application Deadline: Open until filled.

Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
Application Deadline: Open until filled.

Project Coordinator
The Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard University
Applicants admitted on a rolling basis.

New Master of Bioethics Program
Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School
Applicants admitted on a rolling basis.
Other Opportunities
All opportunities are posted once in our newsletter. For the full posting and for other available positions, please visit our website.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Application Deadlines: June 24, 2015; July 1, 2015
 
Yale University
Application Deadline: August 1, 2015

The Rutgers Journal of Bioethics
Application Deadline: August 30, 2015

Yale University
Application Deadline: Open until filled.

Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Application Deadline: Open until filled.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Application Deadlines: Not Applicable.