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In 1977, Professor Ellen Picard (now Justice Picard of the Alberta Court of Appeal) launched the Faculty of Law’s Health Law Institute (HLI) and in so doing established the very first research institute in Canada in the health law field.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Health Law Journal and Review
Caulfield team member of the Canada National Transplant Research Program, a $24.9 million dollar research initiative that will look at ways to increase donations, preserve organs better and improve success rates. For more info check out here, here and here.
Ubaka Ogbogu appointed to joint stream position as Assistant Professor in Health Law and Pharmacy effective July 1, 2013. More info
Cafe Scientifique:
Transforming Health Through Organ Transplantation: A Second Chance at Life
Panel Members: Dr. Lori West, Dr. Atul Humar, Sharon Marcus
April 29, 2013, Edmonton, Alberta More info
HLI Seminar Series:
Medical Tourism, The Realities, The Challenges
Panel Members: Timothy Caulfield, University of Alberta, Glenn Cohen, Harvard University, Y.Y. Chen, University of Toronto
February 12th, 2013
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Compliance with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: What Influences a State to Step Up to the Plate?
Steven Hoffman, McMaster University
January 24, 2013
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Workshops/Conferences:
Privacy Challenges in Cell Therapy Research: Policy Development Workshop
March 6 - 8, 2013, Banff AB Workshop Program
Perceptions of Promise: Biotechnology, Society and Art
November 8, 2012 - February 2, 2013 Enterprise Square Gallery
Check out our public panel event: Saturday, November 24, 2:00-3:30 PM
U of A Museums at Enterprise Square
Check out the video of the New York Show