Invoice of Well being is celebrating the twentieth Anniversary of the Petrie-Flom Heart. Watch this house for key moments in our historical past. Right here, we revisit Harvard Regulation At the moment‘s protection of the middle’s tenth anniversary with this reposted article from 2015. The photograph above reveals Harvard Regulation College Professor I. Glenn Cohen ’03 and Holly Fernandez Lynch, school director and government director of the Petrie-Flom Heart. (Photograph credit score: Martha Stewart.)
Authentic put up date: April 14, 2016
By Carolyn Kelley, Harvard Regulation At the moment
Celebrating the way forward for well being regulation and coverage
On March 29, the Petrie-Flom Heart for Well being Regulation Coverage, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Regulation College celebrated its first decade and kicked off the following with a convention that targeted on the way forward for well being regulation and coverage.
The day-long celebration featured a sequence of panel discussions on main traits, developments, and open questions within the fields of well being regulation coverage, biotechnology, and bioethics.
The occasion was directed by Harvard Regulation College Professor I. Glenn Cohen ’03 and Holly Fernandez Lynch, school director and government director of the Petrie-Flom Heart. Alan Weil ’89, Editor-in-Chief of Well being Affairs, delivered the keynote handle. Convention panelists included many well being regulation consultants who’re outstanding alumni of the Petrie-Flom fellowship program.
Since its founding ten years in the past, the Heart has grown from a small suppose tank designed to answer the necessity for authorized scholarship on the intersection of medication, science, and regulation, to a number one analysis program that boasts a extremely regarded post-doctoral fellowship program and a wide range of sponsored analysis initiatives addressing analysis regulation and ethics, the well being {of professional} soccer gamers, and extra. The Heart additionally hosts a prodigious quantity of conferences, workshops, and lectures, and a variety of impartial scholarship, together with an tutorial journal on bioethics, a sequence of books on well being regulation coverage, and a outstanding “Invoice of Well being” weblog.
Harvard Regulation College Professor Einer Elhauge ’86 served because the Heart’s founding school director from 2005 to 2008.
In his opening remarks, Harvard Regulation College Professor Einer Elhauge ’86, who served because the Heart’s founding school director from 2005 to 2008, stated one of many preliminary goals of the Heart was to create extra school eager about well being regulation coverage and bioethics. “Well being regulation has a big entry barrier. There’s an enormous quantity of technical data you want,” he stated. “After we started there was a relative scarcity, not simply at Harvard however elsewhere. The thought was that if we may jumpstart it by tutorial fellowships, we couldn’t solely get some good well being regulation students right here at Harvard, however seed the remainder of the authorized academy.”
Ninety-seven tutorial, pupil, and senior fellows have participated in this system since its founding. At the moment, Einer famous, former Petrie-Flom fellows are educating at high colleges across the nation and internationally, together with MIT, UCLA, and the College of Cambridge. Each Cohen and Lynch, the Heart’s present management staff, had been a part of the Petrie-Flom Heart’s inaugural fellowship class of 2006.
The late Joseph H. Flom, a profitable company legal professional and a founding accomplice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, based the Heart in 2005, with the Carroll and Milton Petrie Basis. Judi Sorenson Flom, philanthropist and widow of the late benefactor, attended the anniversary celebration and shared her late husband’s imaginative and prescient for the Heart. “All philanthropy is private,” she stated. “Joe’s need to make issues higher was a product of three issues: Love of the regulation, extraordinary expertise and his private story.” She stated Flom wished to discovered a middle that positioned Harvard Regulation College on the forefront of tackling the advanced points dealing with well being regulation coverage and ethics. “Joe was an outsider and on this society, the regulation is the one instrument that may alter the established order.”
Dean Martha Minow mirrored on Flom’s imaginative and prescient and the Heart’s 10 years of labor in well being regulation. She praised the bridges the Heart has constructed inside Harvard, and with coverage and medical communities.
Panel 1: Well being Care Protection, Prices, and Fragmentation
Boston College Regulation Affiliate Professor Abigail Moncrieff and Harvard Regulation College Medical Professor Robert Greenwald focus on well being care prices and fragmentation.
Well being care protection, prices and fragmentation was the main focus of dialog for the primary panel, which featured Harvard Regulation College Professor Einer Elhauge, founding director of the Petrie-Flom Heart; Harvard Regulation College Medical Professor Robert Greenwald, director of HLS’s Heart for Well being Regulation and Coverage Innovation; Allison Hoffman, a professor of regulation at UCLA and an instructional fellow on the Petrie-Flom Heart from 2008 to 2010; and Abigail Moncrieff, an affiliate professor of regulation at Boston College and an tutorial fellow on the Petrie-Flom Heart from 2007 to 2009. The panel was moderated by Andrew Klaber MBA ’09 JD ’10, president and founding father of Even Floor, a global nonprofit that yearly supplies assist for kids who’ve been orphaned or made weak by HIV/AIDS.
[L-R] Andrew Klaber, president and founding father of Even Floor; Allison Hoffman, a professor of regulation at UCLA; Harvard Regulation College Professor Einer Elhauge; and Harvard Regulation College Medical Professor Robert Greenwald.
Panel 2: Bioethics and Regulation
A panel on Bioethics and Regulation featured Harvard Regulation College Professor and present Petrie-Flom Heart College Director I. Glenn Cohen; Holly Fernandez Lynch, government director of the Petrie-Flom Heart; Michelle N. Meyer 06, assistant professor of Bioethics at Clarkson College and Director of Bioethics Coverage within the Clarkson–Icahn College of Medication at Mount Sinai Bioethics Program and an instructional fellow at Petrie-Flom from 2010 to 2013; Candice Participant ’09, assistant professor of regulation at Northwestern College; Amanda C. Pustilnik, professor of regulation at College of Maryland and a senior fellow in regulation and utilized neuroscience on the Petrie-Flom Heart from 2014 to 2015; and Jeffrey Skopek, a lecturer in medical regulation, ethics and coverage on the College of Cambridge and an tutorial fellow on the Petrie-Flom Heart from 2011 to 2014. The panel was moderated by John McGoldrick LL.B ’66, Worldwide AIDS Vaccine Initiative and Zimmer Biomet Holdings.
Keynote: Closing the Hole Between Well being Regulation and Well being Coverage
Alan Weil MPP/JD ’89, editor-in-chief of Well being Affairs, delivered the convention’s keynote handle. He mentioned “Closing the hole between well being regulation and well being coverage.” He beforehand served as the chief director of the Nationwide Academy for State Well being Coverage, an impartial, non-partisan, non-profit analysis and coverage group.
Panel 3: Well being Innovation Coverage and Regulating Novel Expertise
This dialogue featured Timo Minssen, an affiliate regulation professor on the College of Copenhagen’s Centre for Data and Innovation Regulation and a 2014 Petrie-Flom visiting scholar; W. Nicholson Value II, an assistant professor of regulation College of New Hampshire College and a Petrie-Flom tutorial fellow from 2012 to 2014; Assistant professor at MIT Sloan College of Administration Benjamin N. Roin ’05, a Petrie-Flom tutorial fellow from 2006 to 2008, and a former Petrie-Flom school co-director; Rachel E. Sachs ’13, a present tutorial fellow at Petrie- Flom,2014-2016, and a pupil fellow in 2012-2013; and Melissa Wasserman, a professor on the College of Illinois School of Lawand a Petrie-Flom tutorial fellow from 2009 to 2011.Neil Flanzraich ’68, Cantex Prescribed drugs, moderated.
Panel 4: Empirical Well being Regulation
The ultimate panel of the day featured Michael Frakes ’05, an affiliate professor at Northwestern College College of Regulation and a Petrie-Flom fellow from2009 to 2011; Rebecca Haffajee MPH/JD ’06, a fellow in pharmaceutical coverage analysis at Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, and a Petrie-Flom fellow from2010 to 2011; Christopher T. Robertson ’07, a professor of regulation on the College of Arizona James E. Rogers School of Regulation who was a pupil fellow at Petrie-Flom from 2006-2007 and an instructional fellow from2008 to 2010;Kathryn Zeiler, a professor at Boston College College of Regulation and a 2010 Petrie-Flom senior fellow. Dennis Langer ’83, Georgetown College College of Medication, moderated.
Be part of us Sept. 11, 2025, 5–8 p.m. to have fun 20 years of the Petrie-Flom Heart for Well being Regulation Coverage, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Extra data is right here.
