MEDIA ADVISORY
For Immediate Release
May 1, 2006
Members of the Media are invited to the launch of two highly influential books on health law and policy in Canada based on conferences held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto and edited by faculty members Colleen Flood and Trudo Lemmens. On Wednesday May 3 at 5:00 p.m., a "Meet the Authors and Editors" book launch will be held in the Faculty's Rowell Room and will feature Professors Flood and Lemmens. Many of the authors will also be present to discuss the issues raised in their contributions. Copies of the books will be available for purchase and attendees will be treated to a live performance by star jazz pianist, Robi Botos. For more information on these exciting two new books, please visit: http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/
Just Medicare: What's In, What's Out, How We Decide, edited by Professor Colleen M. Flood.
The most important issue facing Canadian health care today is access to services. But who decides what services will be publicly funded, and how? The essays in Just Medicare explore the diverse means by which law influences what should and should not be covered by publicly-funded Medicare. Colleen Flood brings together a broad range of authors who examine the various issues concerning access to and allocation of health care services in Canada.
Law and Ethics in Biomedical Research: Regulation, Conflict of Interest and Liability, edited by Professor Trudo Lemmens and Duff Waring.
In this volume, Canadian and U.S. scholars analyze a host of regulatory and legal challenges raised by new developments in biomedical research, particularly in the context of the growing commercialization of research. The book demonstrates why existing models of research review and human subject protection are in need of improvement, and how more stringent regulatory and legal means can be used to strengthen the protection of research subjects and the integrity of research.
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Who: Professors Colleen Flood and Trudo Lemmens
What: Dual Book Launch on Health Law and Policy
Where: Flavelle Building (Rowell Room)
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
78 Queens Park
When: Wednesday May 3, 2006, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Jane Kidner, Assistant Dean, External Relations, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
(416) 978-6702 or j.kidner@utoronto.c.a
Ana Manao, Communications Officer, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
(416) 946-8188 or ana.manao@utoronto.ca
Colleen Flood
Colleen Flood is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, and part of the Health Law Group. She was recently appointed Scientific Director of the Institute for Health Services Policy Research, part of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Professor Flood obtained her B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She practiced law for three years prior to beginning her graduate work. She completed her LL.M. (1994) and her S.J.D. (1998) at the University of Toronto. From 1997 to 1999, she was the Associate Director of the Health Law Institute, Dalhousie Law School. Her primary area of scholarship is in comparative health care policy, public/private financing of health care systems, health care reform, and accountability and governance issues more broadly. She was the 1999 Labelle Lecturer in Health Services Research and is the author of numerous health law articles and book chapters as well as the author of International Health Care Reform: A Legal, Economic and Political Analysis (London: Routledge, 2000), and co-editor of Canadian Health Law and Policy (2nd ed.) (Toronto: Butterworths, 2002). Professor Food has been consulted on comparative health policy and governance issues by both the Senate Social Affairs Committee studying health care in Canada and by the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (the Romanow Commission). She is also a member of the Health Care, Technology and Place program. Professor Flood is the coordinator of the Health Law and Policy workshop and seminar series at the Faculty of Law.
Trudo Lemmens
Trudo Lemmens is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, with cross-appointments (status-only) in the Faculty of Medicine (Medical Genetics and Microbiology, and Psychiatry). He is associated with the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy and with the Joint Centre for Bioethics. He holds law degrees from the K.U. Leuven in Belgium (Cand. Jur., Lic. Jur.) and from McGill University (LL.M. specialization bioethics; Doctorate in Civil Law). Prior to his appointments in Toronto, Professor Lemmens was a researcher at McGill University and at the UniversitÈ de MontrÈal. He also worked at the Department of International and Comparative Law of the K.U. Leuven and at the Cabinet of the Belgian Vice-Premier and Minister of Institutional Reforms. More recently, Professor Lemmens spent the academic year 2003-2004 as a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton (School of Social Science). His research currently focuses on health law and policy and bioethics, in particular on regulatory and ethical issues of medical research and on legal and ethical issues raised in the context of biotechnological innovations. He has chaired and been a member of various advisory and ethics committees and has been regularly involved in drafting reports for provincial and federal governments and governmental agencies in his areas of expertise. He teaches courses on Research and Drug regulation; Privacy, Property and the Human Body; Research Ethics; and Legal Ethics and Professionalism.
