Spring 2009
Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics Workshop
5-7 pm, Wednesdays
Pound Hall, Room 107
Most papers will be linked approximately one week before their presentation.
Feb 11 - Joseph Doyle, Associate Professor of Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management, Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams
Feb 18 - Ben Roin, Hieken Assistant Professor of Patent Law, Harvard Law School, The Perverse Incentives Created by the Patent Term for Drugs
Feb 25 - Ted Marmor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management & Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Yale School of Management, Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care
Mar 4 - Anup Malani, Roscoe Pound Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Do advertisements affect the physiological efficacy of branded drugs?
Mar 11 - Adriana Lleras-Muney, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UCLA, Understanding the Relationship between Education and Health
Mar 18 - Michael Chernew, Professor, Harvard Medical School,The Financial Effects of a Value Based Insurance Design Program
Apr 1 - Arti Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Duke University, The Promise (and Limits) of Facially Neutral Patent Standards
Apr 8 - Kate Baicker, Professor of Health Economics, Harvard School of Public Health, Expanding Public Health Insurance
Apr 15 - Allison Hoffman & Christopher Robertson, Petrie-Flom Center Academic Fellows, Harvard Law School; Hoffman: Oil and Water: The Trouble with Individual Mandates, Fragmented Markets, and Health Reform; Robertson: The Blind Expert: A Litigant-Driven Solution to Bias and Error
Apr 22 - Alexander Capron, University Professor, Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics, and Professor of Law and Medicine, University of Southern California, The Circulatory-Respiratory Determination of Death in Organ Donation
Apr 29 - Alison Galvani, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Public Health, Long-standing influenza vaccination policy is in accord with individual self-interest but not with the utilitarian optimum
Spending two years at the Center pursuing publishable research that is likely to make a significant contribution to the field of health law policy.
