The Center for Medicine and Law is a partnership between the University of Baltimore
School of Law and the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
Join the Center for Medicine and Law for "Who Owns the Rights to Your DNA?," a panel discussion of AMP v. Myriad Genetics, on Friday, April 26 at noon in the University of Baltimore's M. Scot Kaufman Auditorium in the William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center (home of the Merrick School of Business), 11 W. Mt. Royal Ave. The discussion will focus on the AMP v. Myriad Genetics case, which was argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on April 15. The discussion is free and open to the public.
The event will include an introduction by Gregory Dolin, associate professor of law and co-director of the UB School of Law's Center for Medicine and the Law. The panel discussion will be moderated by William Hubbard, assistant professor of law.
The panelists are:
- Daniel Ravicher, executive director of the Public Patent Foundation
- Hans Sauer, associate general counsel for intellectual property for The Biotechnology Industry Organization.
Lunch will follow in the business school atrium.
This event is presented by the University of Baltimore School of Law, John Hopkins Medicine and the University of Baltimore's Intellectual Property Law Society.
For more information about this event, contact Gloria Joy
at 410.837.4631 or gpjoy@ubalt.edu.
In today's world, doctors and lawyers may only connect professionally when facing each other in the courtroom and often only as adversaries. The Center for Medicine and Law aims to shift this focus from the courtroom to the classroom by empowering health providers, attorneys and other stakeholders to work together in a collaborative setting on health law issues. Founded in July 2011, the center is the first of its kind in the nation to focus on collaboration between medicine and law and to serve as an objective and informative resource for health-related professions, policymakers, the media, the public, and other academic institutions with similar interests.
What We Do
The center sponsors conferences, research scholarship and educational programs on a variety of key topics at the intersection of medicine and law. Center faculty work together on a range of health law issues including tort reform, patient safety, intellectual property in the health care industry, access to health care, health insurance reimbursement, international health and bioethics.
Who We Are
The center's senior co-director is Frederick Levy, M.D., associate professor at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. The center is also co-directed by Gregory Dolin, M.D., associate professor in the School of Law and adjunct associate professor of emergency medicine at Hopkins.