Charm City Colloquium on Law and Bioethics

Agenda

Thursday, May 2

4:30 – 5:30PM: RECEPTION, University of Maryland Carey School of Law

5:30 – 7:00: Evening Program

Welcome Remarks

Diane Hoffmann, University of Maryland Carey School of Law
Jeffrey Kahn, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

PANEL 1: Abortion: Right Here, Wrong There
Moderator: Leslie Meltzer Henry

Yvette Lindgren - NextGen Abortion Dystopia
Molly J. Walker Wilson - Pregnant Patients’ Bill of Rights & Abortion Care Following Dobbs (Co-authored with Michael Sinha)
Carolyn Sufrin - Punished with Pregnancy: Do Post-Dobbs Abortion Bans Violate Incarcerated Individuals’ Constitutional Right to Health Care?
Lori Freedman - Not here or there: How Catholic hospital abortion bans interact with state bans

7:00 – 8:30: Dinner

Friday, May 3

8:00 – 8:30AM: Breakfast

8:30 – 8:40: Welcome and Format for the Day

8:40 – 9:55: PANEL 2: Health Care: Getting from Here to There
Moderator: Karen Rothenberg

Sonia M. Suter - Reproductive Care — “Right” Here and “Wrong” There
Sharon Bassan - Human Rights Regulation for Cross-Border Surrogacy
Leslie Francis - Justifying Within-Nation Travel for Ethically Controversial Health Care (Co-Authored with John Francis)

9:55 – 10:10: BREAK

10:10 – 11:25: PANEL 3: Regulating New Medical Practices: What’s Right and What’s Wrong?
Moderator: Joseph Ali

Amelia Hood - Decentralized Biobanking: Reevaluating the Biobank Policy Landscape at the Intersection of Hospital Medicine and University Research (Co-Authored with Marielle Gross)
Rebecca Feinberg - Legal and Ethical Quandaries in Embryo Classification
Liza Vertinsky - The Double Misalignment Problem in AI Driven Healthcare

11:25AM – 12:25PM: Panel 4: Public Health: Getting it Right
Moderator: Kathleen Hoke

Josh Sharfstein - Who’s in Charge During a Public Health Emergency
Safura Abdool Karim - When extra-territorial obligations are not enough: rethinking obligations under the right to health during global health emergencies

12:25 – 1:20: LUNCH

1:20 – 2:35 Panel 5: Research: Is it Right or Wrong?
Moderator: Megan Singleton

Callie Terris - High Hopes: Legal and Ethical Issues with Post-Trial Access to Psychedelic Drugs (Co-Authored with Emma Tumilty)
Miranda R. Waggoner - New Vulnerabilities: The Impact of Roe on Research Regulations and Why It Matters in the Post-Dobbs Era
Heather Pierce - The Chilling Effect on Research as a Result of State Law Variation

2:35 – 2:50 BREAK

2:50 – 4:05 Panel 6: Research: Doing it Right
Moderator: Debra Mathews

Seema K Shah - Ethical Guidance and Frameworks for CHI Models and Studies
Leslie E. Wolf - Equal rights and protections in human subjects research – a call to action
Scott Burris - The Quality Crisis in Health Policy Research: Can Ethics Help? (Co-Authored with Rosalie Liccardo Pacula & Alexander C. Wagenaar)

4:05 – 4:15: Closing comments

This event is co-hosted by:

The University of Maryland Carey School of Law’s Law & Health Care Program, with special thanks to the Dr. Richard H. Heller Fund and the Judge Martin Greenfeld Bioethics Fund

The Johns Hopkins’ Berman Institute of Bioethics

The Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, which is funded in part by grant UL1 TR003098 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Research (NCATS)

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