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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: NOVEMBER 18 - THIS MONDAY
Petrie-Flom Center Academic Fellowships, 2014-2016
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PURPOSE: The Academic Fellowship is a postdoctoral program specifically designed to identify, cultivate, and promote promising scholars early in their careers. Fellows are selected from among recent graduates, young academics, and mid-career practitioners who are committed to spending two years at the Center pursuing publishable research that is likely to make a significant contribution to the field of health law policy, medical innovation policy, or bioethics. For more information about current and past fellows, please visit the Academic Fellowship section of our website.
ELIGIBILITY: By the start of the fellowship term, applicants must hold an advanced degree in a discipline that they intend to apply to issues falling under the Center's umbrella. The Center particularly encourages applications from those who intend to pursue careers as tenure-track law professors, but will consider any applicant who demonstrates an interest and ability to produce outstanding scholarship at the intersection of law and health policy, bioethics, or biotechnology during the term of the fellowship. Applicants will be evaluated by the quality and probable significance of their research proposals, and by their record of academic and professional achievement.
APPLICATION: Applications will be accepted from September 16, 2013 through November 18, 2013. Applications will be reviewed after November 18. For more information, see the full call for applications here or contact Administrative Director Cristine Hutchison-Jones at chutchisonjones@law.harvard.edu.
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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: DECEMBER 2
Petrie-Flom Center 2014 Annual Conference Call for Abstracts
Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy
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Building on the success of the behavioral economics movement, the 2014 annual conference will further develop the scholarly discussion by focusing on key issues in health law policy, bioethics, and biotechnology. We welcome submissions on both broad conceptual questions and more specific policy applications.
In an effort to encourage interdisciplinary and international dialogue, we welcome submissions from legal scholars and lawyers, of course, but also from bioethicists and political philosophers critiquing and defending the ethics of the sorts of manipulations called for by behavioral economists; health economists, doctors, psychologists, and other experimentalists discussing new avenues to overcome bounded rationality; international scholars and regulators discussing how their systems have used choice architecture to improve health and health care; and others who have a meaningful contribution to make in this field as related to health law, bioethics, and biotechnology policy.
If you are interested in participating in the conference as a presenter, please send a 1-page abstract of your paper to petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu as soon as possible, but not later than Monday, December 2, 2013. Conference papers need not be law review style or length.
For additional information on the conference, including registration links, please see the full announcement/call for proposals on our website.
Please contact Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Administrative Director, Petrie-Flom Center, with any questions: chutchisonjones@law.harvard.edu, 617-495-2316.
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Announcing the New Journal of Law and the Biosciences
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 The Petrie-Flom Center and Harvard Law School are delighted to announce our partnership with Duke University, Stanford University, and Oxford University Press to launch a new peer-reviewed, open access, online journal in 2014: Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JLB).
JLB will become the preeminent outlet to publish cutting-edge scholarship wherever law and the biosciences intersect. The journal will take a broad and interdisciplinary view of these areas, publishing articles on topics generally considered part of bioethics or neuroethics, such as the ethical, legal, and social implications of reproductive technologies, genetics, stem cell research, neuroscience, or human biological enhancement. At the same time, JLB will be a home for work that speaks directly to legal issues where the biosciences can be involved, such as food and drug regulation, biosciences patent law, scientific evidence, and criminal responsibility.
For more information, including article submission guidelines, please visit our website.
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Scholarship & Commentary from Petrie-Flom Affiliates
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 Video Now Available:
Honoring the work of Petrie-Flom Center Founding Director Einer Elhauge
Video of the full symposium is now available online.
November 11, 2013
On Monday, November 11, Einer Elhauge led a faculty workshop at the Marquette University Law School on his book Obamacare on Trial (2012), which explores the Supreme Court's 2012 decision upholding the Affordable Care Act.
Emily Matchar, Outside Magazine, December 2013
"Most people who travel abroad for medical care are uninsured or underinsured, with high-copay or high-deductible insurance, says Glenn Cohen, a professor at Harvard Law School who studies medical tourism."
Alvin Powell, The Harvard Gazette, November 14, 2013
"Cohen - who filed an amicus brief to the court on behalf of Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT - agreed with the decision but said it provides scant reasoning for lower courts to build on. It might be best for Congress to revisit the issue and devise better legal guidelines, he said."
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From the Blog
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Since our last newsletter, our bloggers have discussed the federal circuit courts' applications of the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act ( here); the contraception mandate decision ( here); Gregg Fields on the failure of public-private partnerships in Obamacare ( here); "A Case to Watch: Heimeshoff v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co." ( here); passage of a bill by both the House and the Senate that would permit HIV+ people to donate organs ( here); the FDA's suspension of the leukemia drug Ponatinib ( here); possible trade concerns related to the Food Safety Modernization Act ( here); developments in the Indian regulation of drug patents and generic drugs ( here); health insurance and patient responsibility ( here); societal limitations of personal responsibility in health care decisions ( here); limits on physicians as "good Samaritans" (here); the difference between a mistake and negligence in malpractice litigation (here); teamwork as malpractice (here); a potentially disenfranchising effect of the recognition of health as a human right (here); the George Project on fair and effective use of health law in session at the American Public Health Association conference ( here and here); reviews of several sessions at the recent PRIM&R conference, including discussion of Paul Appelbaum's concept of "therapeutic misconception" ( here), the complicated issues surrounding research on human tissues, including informed consent, ownership, and privacy ( here), and the particular issues related to informed consent in stem cell research ( here); the persistent knowledge gap when it comes to stillbirths ( here); and contributor Dov Fox's recent commentary on "the forgotten holding of Roe v. Wade" ( here).
If you'd like to join us as a guest blogger or if you have something you'd like us to post, please contact Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Petrie-Flom Center Administrative Director, at chutchisonjones@law.harvard.edu.
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Reproductive Rights Around the Globe: A Panel Discussion
November 7, 2013
A discussion of selected topics in the field of international reproductive rights moderated by Elizabeth Bartholet, Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School. Our expert panelists addressed a range of issues:
- International trends in gamete donor identifiability v. anonymity - I. Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Faculty co-Director, Petrie-Flom Center
- The politics of evidence and expertise in domestic and international abortion litigation - Aziza Ahmed, Associate Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law; Visiting Scholar, Petrie-Flom Center (Spring 2014)
- Use of international fora, including courts and treaty bodies, to advance reproductive rights - Mindy Jane Roseman, Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School; Academic Director, Human Rights Program
You can watch the full panel online here.
Cosponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center, the Human Rights Program, and the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School, and the Harvard Global Health Institute.
Ethics and Animals: Where Are We Now?
A lecture by Peter Singer
November 8, 2013
In this lecture by Professor Peter Singer, he argued that we owe animals equal consideration of interests. He elaborated on what that means and what changes would be required to implement such consideration, and discussed the progress that has been made towards that goal over the past 40 years.
You can watch the full lecture online here.
A summary of the event is available here.
Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the Princeton University Center for Human Values and Laureate Professor at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. His book, Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals (Random House, 1975), has been described as the definitive classic of the animal movement, alongside his more recent book, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005).
Co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center and Harvard High-Impact Philanthropy, with support from the Oswald
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December 2: Christopher Robertson, The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law; Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard Law School
February 10: I. Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School, Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Co-Director
March 24: Hank Greely, Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford Law School
All meetings will run from 5:00 to 7:00pm in Hauser 105 at the Law School. For questions and drafts of the papers being presented, contact Kaitlin Burroughs at kburroughs@law.harvard.edu.
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TODAY: Health Law Opportunities at Harvard Law School
Friday, November 15, 2013, 12:00pm
Wasserstein 3019, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.
1Ls and 2Ls will have the opportunity to learn more about different classes and extracurricular activities available at Harvard Law School that relate to health law. Opportunities range from classes on FDA regulation, healthcare access, and food policy, to internships and research assistance. Panelists will include:
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Robert Greenwald, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Health Law and Policy Clinic of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, WilmerHale Legal Services Center at Harvard Law School
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Emily Broad Leib, Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law, Director of the Food Law and Policy Clinic, and Associate Director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School
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I. Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
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Mark Barnes, Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP
This event is free. Lunch will be served.
Cosponsored by the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School and the Petrie-Flom Center.
Responsibility and Integrity in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Please join the Petrie-Flom Center for a lecture by Neil Flanzraich on responsible pricing strategy, access to care, clinical trial design, outsourcing, and other topics that raise thorny but crucial issues for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. There will be substantial time for Q&A.
Mr. Flanzraich graduated from HLS in 1968, and was appointed by Dean Martha Minow as an Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) in fall 2012. He is the Executive Chairman of Kirax Corporation and the Executive Chairman of ParinGenix, Inc., both of which are privately owned biotech companies. He previously served as the Vice Chairman and President of Ivax Corporation, an international pharmaceutical company, which was sold to Teva in 2006 for an enterprise value of $10 billion.
November 22, 2013, 8:30am to 6:00pm
Dan Brock is currently the Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. In a career spanning more than four decades, he has served as Senior Scientist and a member of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health; Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. University Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Biomedical Ethics, and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Brown University; Staff Philosopher on the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine (1981-82); and a member of the Ethics Working Group of the Clinton Task Force on National Health Reform (1993). He has been a consultant in biomedical ethics and health policy to numerous national and international bodies, including the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, the Institute of Medicine, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and the World Health Organization. He is a Fellow and former member of the Board of Directors of the Hastings Center, and was a Fellow in the Ethics and Professions' Program and in the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard University in 1991-92. He was President of the American Association of Bioethics in 1995-96, and was a founding Board Member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He is the author of over 150 articles in bioethics and in moral and political philosophy.
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Alexander M. Capron, LLB, USC Gould School of Law, on "Four Decades of Changing Taboos in Death and Dying"
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Johann Frick, Princeton University, on "Treatment vs. Prevention of HIV/AIDS and the Question of Identified vs. Statistical Lives"
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Daniel M. Hausman, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, on "How can we ration healthcare justly and humanely?"
Norman Fost, MD, MPH, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Public Health, on "Forget About Death: Revising Organ Retrieval Policy"
Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics, the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Petrie-Flom Center, with support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund.
2nd Annual Health Law Year in P/Review
Friday, January 31, 2014, 9:00am to 5:00pm
Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C (2036) , Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.
Please join the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, alongside the New England Journal of Medicine, for our second annual Health Law Year in P/Review event. This year we will welcome experts discussing major developments over the past year and what to watch out for in areas including the Affordable Care Act, medical malpractice, FDA regulatory policy, abortion, contraception, intellectual property in the life sciences industry, public health policy, and human subjects research. A full schedule of speakers is available on the Petrie-Flom website.
Please RSVP here. Contact petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu with questions. Attendance is free and open to the public.
This event is supported by the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund.
Bioethics and Law Research Workshops
February 3-4, 2014, 12:00pm
Are you interested in doing research at the intersection of law, bioethics, and health policy, but need a few pointers? The Petrie-Flom Center will be teaming up with the HLS library to provide two sessions aimed at making your research more productive and efficient:
Monday, February 3, 2014: Bioethics and health policy research for law students, lawyers, and law professors
Tuesday, February 4, 2014: Law, bioethics, and health policy research for non-lawyers
At the moment, we'd just like to gauge interest. If you'd like to attend either session (or both!), please RSVP to Petrie-Flom Administrative Director Crissy Hutchison-Jones (chutchisonjones@law.harvard.edu) to reserve your slot and we'll be in touch with further details. Please provide your name, affiliation, and any particular areas of research you're interested in learning more about. Depending on the response, we may offer multiple sessions.
SAVE THE DATE:
Conference:
New Directions for Food Safety: The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond
February 21, 2014, Harvard Law School
specific location and agenda TBD
Cosponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center; the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Food Law and Policy Division; and the Food Law Lab. With support from the Top University Strategic Alliance at Harvard University.
Questions? Contact petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu or 617-496-4662.
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Other Harvard Events
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Implementation of the Affordable Care Act: Ethics and Policy
TODAY: November 15, 2013
"Expanding Coverage: The Three-Legged Stool"
Jonathan Gruber, PhD, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
Director, Health Care Program, National Bureau of Economic Research
Please RSVP for the November 15 lecture here.
December 13, 2013
"Fools' Gold: Paying for Value in Medical Care"
David Himmelstein, MD, and Stephanie Woolhandler, MD, MPH
Professors, CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and Visiting Professors of Medicine, HMS
January 17, 2014
"The ACA and Overtreatment"
February 21, 2014
"Consequences of the Supreme Court Decisions on the ACA"
Michelle M. Mello, JD, PhD, Professor of Law and Public Health, and Director, Program in Law and Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
For the full 2013-2014 Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar schedule, click here.
November 21, 2013, 12:30 to 2:00pm
Andrew McGee, PhD, Lecturer, Health Law Research Centre, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Some of the enducring controversies in bioethics are whether there are relevant ethical distinctions between acts and omissions, the withholding versus the withdrawing of treatments, and killing versus allow-to-die. Professor Dan Brock has famously argued that the withdrawal of life sustaining treatments (like ventilators, dialysis, and tube feedings) should be understood as constituting ethically justified acts of killing, rather than the more typical -- and psychologically comfortable -- framing of these as instances of "letting die."
Andrew McGee has argued in several papers against Professor Brock, claiming that in some cases it is coherent to view the withdrawal of treatment as "letting die." Professor McGee will be visiting the Division of Medical Ethics on Thursday, November 21, when he will present his paper "Acting to let someone die," currently in press in the journal Bioethics. Dan Brock will respond and kick off the discussion.
November 26, 2013, 11:00am
Stuart McLennan, Visiting Scholar, Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland
There has been an important shift towards openness regarding medical errors and their communication to patients and recent research suggests that saying sorry is a key element of successful disclosure practice. There is often reluctance to apologize for errors in medicine due to the fear that it will be used in lawsuits as evidence of negligence. Legislation has been widely enacted in the United States, Australia and Canada to prevent apologies given after an 'incident' from being used in various legal processes. Similar legislation has recently been proposed in Scotland. While the promotion of error disclosure is a very worthy goal, apology laws are a misguided strategy to achieve this.
NOTE: The Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School often has public programs likely to be of interest. More information is available here. The Healthcare Initiative at Harvard Business School also hosts a number of relevant events. For details, see here.
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Deadline TODAY: November 15, 2013
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics encourages teaching and research about ethical issues in the professions and public life. Its graduate fellowships support outstanding Harvard graduate and professional students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics, especially ethical issues in areas such as architecture, business, education, government, law, medicine, public health, public policy, and religion.
Deadline: January 1, 2014
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University invites scholars, practitioners, innovators and others committed to understanding and remedying institutional corruption to submit proposals to join our community. In 2014-15, the Edmond J. Safra Research Lab will enter the fifth and final year of a project on institutional corruption. We are concerned with widespread or systematic practices that undermine the integrity of an institution, or public trust in an institution. Unlike more frequently studied examples of individual corruption (such as bribery), institutional corruption tends to involve practices that are legal, but nonetheless detrimental to an institution's purposes. We accept a broad definition of "institutions," which can encompass public and private organizations and professions, including medicine, government, academia, law, regulatory agencies, and business.
A broad range of researchers, scholars, and professionals are invited to submit proposals to the Lab, either to become Fellows, or to propose joint or collaborative research projects. The Lab accepts a number of Fellows every year who are engaged in research and practice addressing institutional corruption. Research applicants may be from the fields of law, medicine, economics, psychology, sociology, business, and public policy, although those from other disciplinary homes will also be considered. Practice applicants may come from industry, government, or the nonprofit sector.
Faculty and postdoctoral applicants are invited to apply. We encourage proposals from professionals seeking sabbatical time to pursue research directly relevant to the project as well. We are also particularly interested in receiving proposals from professionals in media, industry, and government, or data-driven fields such as design, programming, and statistics.
More information: http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/opportunities
Call for Applications: Non-Stipendiary Fellowships
Deadline: January 31, 2014
The Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School welcomes applications to its non-stipendiary pre- and postdoctoral fellowship program for AY 2014-2015. Predoctoral fellowships are most appropriate for Ph.D. students in STS or related fields who have completed their qualifying exams and have embarked on dissertation research and writing. Postdoctoral fellowships are most appropriate for recent Ph.D.'s pursuing research that would benefit from systematic exposure to STS theories and methods.The Program offers a unique collegial environment in which fellows become an integral part of the Cambridge-based STS community. Fellows meet weekly as a group to discuss each other's research, attend weekly STS Circle seminars, have the opportunity to audit Harvard graduate courses, and participate in the Program's major events. Each year's cohort includes students from varied backgrounds, cultures, and countries. We have hosted students from the US, Canada, South Korea, and several European countries (e.g., France, Germany, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom).
Non-stipendiary fellows are expected to participate in the Program for one academic year (September-May), but shorter stays of at least one semester (about three months) are also possible with appropriate justification. Fellows may stay for a maximum of two years with appropriate external support. Applicants for non-stipendiary fellowships should contact the STS Program Administrator, Shana Rabinowich, at
- description of research interests and reasons for seeking affiliation with the STS Program;
- supporting letter from an academic adviser evaluating the applicant's performance and standing;
- brief curriculum vitae.
For more information on the STS Program, visit http://sts.hks.harvard.edu.
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Jeulsgaard Intellectual Property & Innovation Clinic
Mills Legal Clinic, Stanford Law School
Seeking a start date as early as December 2013
The Mills Legal Clinic of Stanford Law School is seeking applicants for the position of Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law for its newly launched Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic. We are particularly interested in applicants with strong life sciences/biotech qualifications.
The Supervising Attorney will oversee students in the Clinic as they work to develop and advocate for sound innovation policies, focusing on the relationship between innovation and patent, copyright and trademark law and other law and regulation including antitrust, privacy and security, in areas ranging from biotechnology to information technology, pharmaceuticals, clean technology, and the creation and distribution of information. Students will prepare and submit amicus briefs; comments or testimony in rulemaking and regulatory proceedings before entities like the PTO, FTC, Copyright Office, FDA, OSTP, state or local regulatory bodies, etc.; comments or testimony on proposed legislation; and reports, whitepapers or other "best practices" documents to encourage sensible and balanced legal approaches to innovation and creativity. Clients will include a variety of non-profit organizations and, in certain cases, groups or associations of innovators, entrepreneurs, small enterprises, technology users or consumers, economists, technologists, legal academics, and the like, and occasionally individual inventors, start-ups, journalists, researchers, artists, or other innovators.
A complete job description and application information are available online.
Kermit Gitenstein Distinguished Visiting Chair in Health Law and Policy
Deadline: Earliest possible date
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center invites applications from experienced health law teachers and scholars for the Kermit Gitenstein Distinguished Visiting Chair in Health Law and Policy. Touro is seeking a nationally-known professor in the field of health law and policy to fill the chair for the spring semester in 2015. The Gitenstein visiting professor will teach at least one course at the law school, deliver public lectures, and participate fully in faculty and student life. Touro Law Center is part of Touro College, which includes New York Medical College-one of the largest private health sciences universities in the nation. The visiting chair will have the opportunity to develop collaborative initiatives with the medical profession in general and New York Medical College in particular. Women, members of minority groups and others whose background will contribute to the diversity of the faculty are encouraged to apply.Touro Law Center is a dynamic institution that is at the forefront of legal education in this country, dedicated to producing practice-ready graduates. Touro's students have the unique opportunity to take advantage of the first-ever law campus in the United States-a law school adjacent to and working with both a federal courthouse and a state courthouse. The law school is located in Suffolk County, Long Island, approximately an hour outside of New York City. Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume at the earliest possible date for full consideration. Contact: Samuel Levine, Appointments Committee Chair and Director of the Jewish Law Institute, atslevine@tourolaw.edu . Touro College is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity. Our practices and employment decisions regarding employment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment are not to be based on an employee's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, ancestry, military discharge status, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic predisposition, housing status, or any other protected status, in accordance with applicable law. Our policies are in conformance with Title IX, 1972 Education Amendments.
MAYO CLINIC IN ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA SEEKS OUTSTANDING BIOMEDICAL ETHICS STAFF MEMBERS AT THE ASSOCIATE OR FULL PROFESSOR LEVEL
JOB DESCRIPTION: Candidate will actively contribute to the scholarship and clinical practice of a vibrant, multidisciplinary Program in Biomedical Ethics devoted to the full range of bioethics needs of our academic medical center with an emphasis on individualized medicine. The Biomedical Ethics Program currently includes a newly recruited Director, 2 core faculty, 3-6 additional clinicians and 8 staff engaged in ethics research. The position includes a competitive start-up package, benefits, and operating support.
QUALIFICATIONS: Clinician-Investigator in Bioethics with a MD or MD/PhD degree. The candidate in this position is expected to focus his/her research on bioethical issues related to individualized medicine. This might include bioethical issues in genetic research, DNA biobanking, emerging information technologies, clinical genomics, or related topics of interest within the context of the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine and Biomedical Ethics Program. Candidates will also be expected to maintain a clinical practice that advances the mission of the Mayo Clinic. The successful candidate should have a track record of NIH or equivalent peer-reviewed grant funding or provide evidence that he or she will be able to secure such funding in the future. Credentials of successful applicants will include national/international recognition in bioethics and a track record of outstanding scholarly contributions.
Early-stage investigators with exceptional accomplishments and rigorous training in these areas will also be considered.
MAYO CLINIC is a premier academic medical center with over 3,800 staff physicians and scientists in a unified multi-campus system. This unique environment brings together the best in patient care, groundbreaking research and innovative medical and graduate education. Mayo Clinic offers a highly competitive compensation package with sustained intramural funding, outstanding laboratory facilities, capital equipment funding, technical and computational resources, and exceptional benefits.
To apply and learn more, please visit www.mayoclinic.org/scientist-jobs/ and reference job posting number 24764BR. A CV, selected publications, and a statement of research interests should be sent to Dr. Richard R. Sharp, PhD.
Please apply online at or send all materials to:
Brent Helgren
Physician/Scientist Recruiter
Mayo Clinic
Email: Helgren.Brent@mayo.edu
Email: bioethics@mayo.edu
Mayo Clinic is an affirmative action / equal opportunity educator and employer.
Call for Abstracts: Global Cancer Care: Challenges and Opportunities Symposium
Students for GO! and the Global Oncology (GO!) Initiative, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Deadline TODAY: November 15, 2013
Students for GO! and the Global Oncology (GO!) Initiative invites you to participate in the first Global Cancer Care: Challenges and Opportunities Symposium held on February 8th, 2014 at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. We are looking for projects on the treatment of cancer in low resource settings, cancer care delivery, or financial, legal and other strategies for improving global access to cancer care.
The submitted abstracts will be judged by a panel of faculty and students from Students for GO! and the GO! Initiative. From the submitted abstracts, 2 students will be invited to present an oral presentation and 20-30 others will be invited to present in the poster session.
For more information about abstract guidelines and submission, please visit our website. The deadline for submission is November 15, 2013.
Call for Papers: Intersections in Reproduction: Perspectives on Abortion,
Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and Judicial Review
Deadline MONDAY: November 18, 2013
Abortion and reproductive technologies have historically occupied separate realms in law, policy, and academia. In spite of some obvious and natural overlap, scholarship exploring the relationship between abortion and assisted reproduction is sparse. In 2014, Judith Daar (Whittier Law School) and Kimberly Mutcherson (Rutgers Law-Camden) will co-guest edit an issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics devoted to articles reflecting on this relationship. JLME is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
The guest editors are open to a wide range of scholarship from authors steeped in various aspects of reproductive justice, reproductive rights and reproductive technologies who can explore the future of assisted reproduction and abortion as matters of scholarly concern and legal regulation, especially when viewed as part of a larger movement for reproductive rights and reproductive justice. The term reproductive technologies should be interpreted broadly in this context to go beyond IVF and include a range of techniques used in conjunction with assisted methods of conception.
Questions papers might choose to tackle include, but are in no way limited to:
- What is the relationship between the right to create a pregnancy through assisted reproduction and the right to terminate a pregnancy? Papers could explore constitutional groundings for the rights, similarities and differences in how the rights have or should evolve, and how these potentially evolving rights can or should impact each other.
- What common ground and common cause can be found between those who advocate on behalf of people who use assisted reproductive technology and women who want to terminate pregnancies?
- What is the role of stigma in controlling women's reproductive choices in these two areas and how does stigma in one area impact another? For example, how does stigma directed at women working as surrogates relate to stigma directed towards women who terminate a pregnancy?
- What is the relationship between paternalist justifications for the regulation of assisted reproductive technology and paternalist justifications for the regulation of decision making about terminating pregnancies?
- How has technology influenced women's choices and autonomy in reproductive decision-making, either in creating or ending embryonic life, and how does it impact judicial review of these decisions?
Special consideration will be given to writing that explores connections, disconnections, and contradictions in how law, public policy, and ethics understand abortion and how those arenas understand assisted reproduction. Final papers should be ten-twenty pages, including endnotes. On April 17-18, 2014, as a prelude to the special issue, the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School will host a workshop to discuss papers that have been preliminarily selected for publication in the special issue of JLME, and potentially additional papers that explore these themes.
Post-workshop, authors will have time to revise their papers for purposes of publication in the special issue or for potential placement elsewhere.
To be considered for inclusion in this special issue and the workshop in April, please send an abstract of no more 500 words to Judith Daar (jdaar@law.whittier.edu) and Kim Mutcherson (mutchers@camden.rutgers.edu) by November 18, 2013. Authors who are selected for inclusion in the volume and/or the workshop will be notified no later than December 13, 2013. Drafts of papers for the workshop will be due by March 10, 2014. Final papers will be due to the editors by May 23, 2014.
If you have any questions about this CFP, please feel free to contact Judith Daar at jdaar@law.whittier.edu or Kimberly Mutcherson at mutchers@camden.rutgers.edu..
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for Fall 2014:
These innovative, intensive courses of study are open to highly qualified candidates in public and private sectors with an LL.B., J.D. or other first law degree and strong interest or background in global health law and policy. Georgetown Law offers graduate students a unique opportunity to advance their knowledge and skills through focused studies in courses on global health, public health, international trade and health, health and human rights, bioethics, food and drug law, biotechnology, and intellectual property. The O'Neill Institute, housed at Georgetown, supports world-class research and scholarship that is applied to urgent health problems, using a complex, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and transnational approach to extend beyond a narrow vision of health law that focuses solely on health care as an industry or as a scientific endeavor.
The Global Health Law and International Institutions LL.M. program brings together two institutions at the cutting edge of global health law and diplomacy. At the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland, students in the jointly offered program will take courses in global health law and diplomacy, international law, humanitarian law, international trade law, international environmental law, international affairs, and international development studies. IHEID is widely regarded as one of the best international law and relations institutes in Europe and through its Global Health Programme, the Graduate Institute plays an important role in shaping the emerging field of interface between foreign policy, economics, development and health. For more information about the Global Health Law program, please visit here. For more information about the Global Health Law and International Institutions program, please visit here. Information about the Global Health Law Scholarship for full or partial tuition waivers can be found here. The online application for both programs can be found here.
Please feel free to contact Georgetown's Global Health Law LL.M. Program Director, Tanya Baytor at teb39@law.georgetown.edu with any questions.
Onestart Idea Competition
sponsored by the Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable
Deadline: December 15, 2013
The Onestart Idea Competition is calling all aspiring life science entrepreneurs.
Onestart is the largest life science idea competition in the world, with the winning idea awarded $150,000 cash plus free lab space at QB3. The competition is open to anyone under 36 living in the US. Entrants will have the opportunity to form teams across multiple institutions and backgrounds, from academia to business schools.
Teams will get to network with leading pharmaceutical companies, venture capitalists, advisory firms and each other; develop key skills in workshops; and be assigned mentors. The winner will be selected by a judging panel of experts.
The deadline for round 1 submissions is December 15, 2013. You can learn more online at oxbridgebiotech.com/onestart.
Jointly organized by SR One, the venture capital arm of GlaxoSmithKline, and Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable, the competition is looking for compelling and innovative ideas for medical technology that will meaningfully impact patient lives. Applications are open to anyone under the age of 36 working or studying in the US.
Deadline: December 15, 2013
Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics invites applications for a one-year fellowship in Pediatric Ethics and Genomics.
Children's Mercy Hospital is one of four centers that were recently funded by NICHD and NHGRI to study whole genome sequencing in newborns. As part of the grant, we will study ethical, legal and psychoanalytical issues (ELSI) in genomic testing for newborns.
We invite applications for a one-year fellowship to participate in this important project. Our fellowship in Pediatric Ethics and Genomics will allow time to participate in all of the clinical, educational, and research activities of our ethics and genomics programs and to conduct independent research on ethical issues in pediatric genomics.
Fellows can participate in our Certificate in Pediatric Ethics.
Applicants should have a terminal degree (MD, JD, PhD etc.) in medicine, philosophy, nursing, social work, religious studies, law, or another field related to bioethics or genetics. Priority will be given to applicants who have published on topics in bioethics or genomics.
There is an annual stipend of $65,000 plus a small budget to support research.
Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States. The fellowship begins July 1, 2014. Applications must be received by December 15, 2013. Applications will be considered as they are received.
To apply, please submit the following by December 15 to Mary Ellen Hudson at mhudson@cmh.edu.
- A one-page cover letter explaining your interest in this fellowship
- A current curriculum vita
- Three letters of reference
- One published paper or another example of your writing
Applications will not be considered until all materials are received.
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics is one of the country's premiere free-standing independent pediatric medical centers. We are consistently ranked among the leading children's hospitals in the nation, and we were the first hospital in Missouri or Kansas to receive Magnet recognition for excellence in nursing services from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. In addition to the clinical expertise provided by our faculty of more than 400 pediatric subspecialists, Children's Mercy is also a leader in providing pediatric medical education to the next generation of physicians and nurses and in conducting cutting-edge pediatric medical research to discover the treatments and cures of tomorrow. We've also been at the forefront of pediatric psychosocial care, and we're nationally recognized for our innovation in creating a family-centered environment that is focused on the unique needs of hospitalized children and their families.
Online information about the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center, including application guidelines, are available at www.cmh.edu/cmbc. Information about the Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine is available at
http://www.childrensmercy.org/Health_Care_Professionals/Research/Pediatric_Genomic_Medicine.
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Call for Proposals: 37th Annual Health Law Professors Conference, June 2014
Deadline: January 14, 2014
The University of California, Hastings College of the Law and the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (ASLME) look forward to hosting the 37th Annual Health Law Professors Conference from June 5-7th, 2014 in San Francisco.
As we begin to prepare the conference agenda, we request your ideas and proposals for the conference program. You may submit two different types of proposals - a panel proposal or an presentation proposal. Both types of proposals may be submitted through one online form (link provided below).
- Panel Proposal - select this option if you would like to propose organizing an entire concurrent session at the conference, including proposing the topic, selecting presenters, and moderating the session;
- Presentation Proposal - select this option if you would like to propose presenting on a specific topic or paper as part of a concurrent session. If chosen, speakers will be allotted approximately 15-20 minutes to present on the topic as part of a larger session. Please also indicate if you are interested in moderating your concurrent session.
You may submit more than one proposal, but please indicate your order of priority so that as many of our colleagues as possible can be included in the program.
To ensure full consideration, please submit your proposal[s] by no later than Monday, January 14, 2014. We will finalize the preliminary schedule for all sessions in mid-February.
You can submit your proposals online at https://uchastings.webconnex.com/aslme2014. If you have any technical issues with the form, please contact Roxy Bischoff at bischofr@uchastings.edu.
Finally, please note that this website is provided solely for proposal submission, not conference registration. ASLME will provide and circulate an online conference registration process through its website in the near future. Questions related to conference planning, registration, and logistics may be directed to ASLME's Katie Kenney Johnson [kjohnson@aslme.org].
We look forward to receiving and reviewing your proposals. If you have any suggestions for topics that you would especially like to see covered or questions about the substantive conference programming, please contact Jaime S. King, Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law, at kingja@uchastings.edu.
SUMR @ Penn: Summer Undergraduate Minority Research Program
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), University of Pennsylvania
Deadline: February 1, 2014
The University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) offers paid summer internships for underrepresented minority undergraduates, or any other undergrads interested in exploring the field of health services research.
LDI is one of the country's largest health services research centers coordinating the work of more than 200 senior fellows investigating the medical, economic, and social issues that influence how health care is organized, financed, managed, and delivered across the U.S.
The LDI Summer Undergraduate Minority Research (SUMR) program pairs students with senior fellows to work on real research projects throughout the three-month duration of the course. Those mentors are also faculty members at Penn Medicine, the Wharton School, Penn Nursing, Penn Dental, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Designed to provide an immersive reality experience with the disciplines and culture of the academic health services research community, the program particularly encourages candidates from minority groups that are underrepresented in this field (African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander) to apply.
A committee of Penn faculty selects each year's SUMR scholars from the highly competitive applicant pool.
Eligibility
Program participants should have an interest in health care and strong quantitative skills. Prospective participants do not have to make a commitment in advance to attend graduate school in order to be accepted into the program, but an academic or research career should be something they might consider.
What Do SUMR Scholars Do?
- Work with Penn faculty mentors on one or two health services research projects of the student's choice
- Gain practical advice about graduate school opportunities and assistance with the graduate school application process, including a GRE prep program
- Attend weekly lunch meetings with program staff and Penn faculty to discuss their projects and learn more about the broad range of health services research in which Penn faculty are engaged
- Present a final presentation on mentored health services research project at the SUMR Research Symposium
- Attend two health services research related academic conferences as a group, all expenses paid
- Take part in various extracurricular activities/social functions sponsored by the SUMR program
To Apply
For More Information
Additional opportunities:
- Assistant or Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, NYU Abu Dhabi, Deadline: December 1, 2013
- Faculty Fellowships at the Center for Law, Health, & Society at the Georgia State College of Law, Deadline for applications: December 13, 2013; Deadline for letters of reference: December 6, 2013
- Penn Fellowship in Advanced Biomedical Ethics, Deadline: January 2, 2014
- Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE), Deadline: January 6, 2014
- Summer Institute in Bioethics at Yale University's Center for Bioethics, Deadline: January 15, 2014
- Healthcare Compliance Certification Program 2014 Health Law Student Scholarships, Seton Hall University School of Law Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Deadline: February 7, 2014
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