Thursday, January 15, 2015 12:30 PM

Hauser Hall 102,1575 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

The recent outbreak of Ebola has called attention to the substantial difficulties associated with developing and testing new products for time-sensitive epidemics. What are the legal, ethical, and economic barriers to getting essential treatments and preventative measures from the lab into the hands of patients - and how can they be overcome?

Please join the Petrie-Flom Center for a discussion of these issues by Peter Barton Hutt, Partner at Covington & Burling, LLP, and Lecturer on Law at HLS. Rachel Sachs, Petrie-Flom Center Academic Fellow, will respond.

• "Information Blocking and Interoperability," Nicolas Terry
• "Medical Malpractice and the 'Continuous Act' Exceptions to the Statute of Repose," Alex Stein
• "Neuroimaging in the Courtroom: Promises and Pitfalls," Zachary Shapiro
• Book Review Review: Sunstein's 'Valuing Life,' Matthew Lawrence
• "Mental Health in Law School - Part II," Deborah Cho
• "Who Will Own Primary Care in 2016?," Nicholas Terry
• A Right to Die? The M.D. Case Before the Argentine Supreme Court, Martin Hevia
• Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy, Ameet Sarpatwari and Aaron S. Kesselheim
• A Physician Fights Surgery, Lauren Taylor

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.

Save the Date for More Upcoming Petrie-Flom Events!

• Gender (Re)assignment:Legal, Ethical, and Conceptual Issues, February 10, 2015
• Speaker on Law & Applied Neuroscience, February 11, 2015
• Speaker on Law & Applied Neuroscience, March 4, 2015
• Book Launch: Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach, March 11, 2015
• Families Matter: Ethically, Legally, and Clinically, March 18 - 21, 2015
• Speaker on Law & Applied Neuroscience, March 25, 2015
• Speaker on Law & Applied Neuroscience, April 8, 2015
• FDA's Impact on Pharmaceutical Innovation: A lecture by Neil Flanzraich, April 14, 2015
• 2015 Annual Conference: Law, Religion, and American Health Care, May 8 - 9, 2015