Symposium 2016

Harvard Negotiation Law Review

2016 Symposium
Negotiating for Health: The Role of Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in Healthcare

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Agenda and Registration Information Below

~ Saturday, February 27th, 2016 ~

Austin Hall North, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

9:00 – 9:15 am Introduction and Welcome
Professor Robert Bordone, Director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program

9:15 – 9:30 am Remarks
Professor Martha Minow, Dean of Harvard Law School

9:30 – 10:30 am Balancing Incentives for Innovation with Affordable Drug Prices: Understanding Interests
Jamie Love, Director of Knowledge Ecology International and the U.S. co-chair of the Trans- Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Intellectual Property Policy Committee
Mark Wu, Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and former Director for Intellectual Property in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Moderated by: Elaine Lin Hering, Consultant at Triad Consulting Group

10:40 – 11:40 am Mergers & Acquisitions: Unique Challenges for Healthcare Institutions
Michele Garvin, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Boston Children’s Hospital
Brent Henry, Vice President and General Counsel of Partners HealthCare
Deborah Joelson, Senior Vice President of Strategic Services at Tufts Medical Center
Stephen M. Weiner, Member and Chair of the Health Law Practice Group at Mintz Levin

Moderated by: Jeff Weiss, Founding Partner and Leader of the Alliance Practice and Healthcare Group at Vantage Partners

11:50 am – 12:50 pm Negotiating Resource Allocation in Times of Crisis: The Ebola Case Study
Eric Goralnick, MD, MS, Medical Director of Emergency Preparedness at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Melvin Kohn, MD, Medical Director of Adult Vaccines at Merck
Eric J. McNulty, Director of Research and Professional Programs of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health

Moderated by: Robert Bordone, Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program

12:50 – 1:20 pm Lunch

1:20 – 2:20 pm Navigating Challenges through Collaboration in a Post- Affordable Care Act Environment
Wendy Mariner, Professor of Health Law at Boston University School of Public Health, Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, Professor at Boston University School of Medicine
W. Thomas McGough, Jr., Chief Legal Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Timothy Westmoreland, Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and Counsel to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 through 1995

Moderated by: Amy Lischko, DSc, MSPH, Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and formerly the Commissioner of Health Care Finance and Policy and the Director of Health Care Policy under Governor Mitt Romney

2:30 – 3:10 pm Keynote Address
Dr. Leonard J. Marcus, Director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

3:15 – 4:30 pm Closing Remarks and Reception

More information on panelists and moderators will be coming soon.