[Ip-health] WCL event: Legal Strategies to Promote Access to Medicines

[Mike Palmedo]

LEGAL STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE ACCESS TO MEDICINES

February 4, 2008
Noon - 3:00 pm

Sponsored by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual
Property (PIJIP), the Health Law Project, LL.M. Program on Law and
Government and Prescription Policy Choices

American University, Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Room 603, Washington, DC

A public roundtable of leading patient advocates, policy professionals
and academics will exchange ideas and information on legal developments
and effective strategies for using law to promote broader access to safe
and affordable medicines. Topics will include: innovative state
legislation being considered around the country; federal appellate
litigation by the pharmaceutical industry asserting a First Amendment
right to access prescription records for marketing purposes; evolving
law on whether liability claims are preempted by FDA approval; FDA=81fs
consideration of new drug safety regulations; and litigation regarding
deceptive marketing practices.

- Paul Brown, U.S. PIRG Consumer Health Care Advocate
- David Catania, Chair, Health Committee, D.C. Council (invited)
- Sean Flynn, Prog. on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, WCL
- Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, M.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health
- Corrine Parver, Health Law Project, WCL
- Alex Sugerman, Prescription Access Litigation Project, Community Catalyst
- Sharon Treat, National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug Price=
s
- Bruce Vignery, AARP Foundation Litigation
- Allison M. Zieve, Public Citizen Litigation Group

General Registration - no charge.
To register, please go to www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm

For further information, please contact: Office of Special Events &
Continuing Legal Education, American University Washington College of Law

Phone: 202.274.4075; Fax: 202.274.4079; or secle@wcl.american.edu or
please go to www.pijip.org

American University
Washington College of Law

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Mike Palmedo
Research Coordinator
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
American University, Washington College of Law
4910 Massachutsetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016
T - 202-274-4442 | F 202-274-0659
mpalmedo@wcl.american.edu