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Bill of Health is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Petrie-Flom Center. Watch this space for key moments in our history. Here, we revisit Harvard Law Today\u2018s coverage<\/a> of the center\u2019s 10th anniversary with this reposted article from 2015. The photo above shows Harvard Law School Professor I. Glenn Cohen \u201903 and Holly Fernandez Lynch, faculty director and executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center. (Photo credit: Martha Stewart.)<\/p>\n

Original post date: April 14, 2016<\/p>\n

By Carolyn Kelley, Harvard Law Today<\/p>\n

Celebrating the future of health law and policy<\/p>\n

On March 29, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics<\/a> at Harvard Law School celebrated\u00a0its first decade and kicked\u00a0off the next with a conference that focused on\u00a0the future of health law and policy.<\/p>\n

The day-long celebration featured\u00a0a series of panel discussions on major trends, developments, and open questions in the fields of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics.<\/p>\n

The event was directed by Harvard Law School Professor I. Glenn Cohen \u201903<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Holly Fernandez Lynch<\/a>, faculty director and executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center.\u00a0Alan Weil<\/a>\u00a0\u201989,\u00a0Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs, delivered the keynote address. Conference panelists included\u00a0many health law experts who are\u00a0prominent alumni of the Petrie-Flom fellowship program.<\/p>\n

Since its founding ten years ago, the\u00a0Center has grown from a small think tank designed to respond to the need for legal scholarship at the intersection of medicine, science, and law, to a leading research program that\u00a0boasts a highly regarded post-doctoral fellowship program and a variety of sponsored research projects addressing research regulation and ethics<\/a>, the health of professional football players<\/a>,\u00a0and more. The Center also hosts a prodigious number\u00a0of conferences, workshops, and lectures, and a range of\u00a0independent scholarship, including\u00a0an academic journal on bioethics<\/a>, a series of books on health law policy, and\u00a0a prominent \u201cBill of Health\u201d<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n

\"HarvardCredit: Martha Stewart
Harvard Law School Professor Einer Elhauge \u201986 served as the Center\u2019s founding faculty director from 2005 to 2008.<\/p>\n

In his opening remarks, Harvard Law School Professor Einer Elhauge \u201986<\/a>, who served as the Center\u2019s\u00a0founding faculty director from 2005 to 2008, said one of the initial aims of the Center was to create\u00a0more faculty interested in health law policy and bioethics. \u00a0\u201cHealth law has a large entry barrier. There\u2019s a huge amount of technical knowledge you need,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen we began there was a relative shortage, not just at Harvard but elsewhere. The idea was that if we could jumpstart it by academic fellowships, we could not only get some good health law scholars here at Harvard, but seed the rest of the legal academy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ninety-seven academic, student, and senior fellows have participated in the program since its founding. Today, Einer noted, former Petrie-Flom fellows\u00a0are teaching at top schools around the country and internationally, including MIT, UCLA, and the University of Cambridge.\u00a0Both Cohen and Lynch, the Center\u2019s current leadership team, were part of the Petrie-Flom Center\u2019s inaugural fellowship class of 2006.<\/p>\n

The late Joseph H. Flom, a\u00a0successful corporate attorney and a founding partner\u00a0at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, founded the Center in 2005, with\u00a0the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation. Judi Sorenson Flom, philanthropist and widow of the late benefactor, attended the anniversary celebration and shared her late husband\u2019s vision\u00a0for the Center. \u201cAll philanthropy is personal,\u201d she said. \u201cJoe\u2019s desire to make things better was a product of three things: Love of the law, extraordinary talent and his personal story.\u201d She said Flom wanted to found a\u00a0center that positioned Harvard Law School at the forefront of tackling the complex issues facing health law policy and ethics. \u201cJoe was an outsider and in this society, the law is the one instrument that can alter the status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DeanCredit: Martha Stewart
Dean Martha Minow<\/a>\u00a0reflected on Flom\u2019s vision and the Center\u2019s 10 years of work in health law. She praised the bridges the Center has built within Harvard, and with policy and medical communities.<\/p>\n

Panel 1: Health Care Coverage, Costs, and Fragmentation<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ProfessorCredit: Martha Stewart
Boston University Law Associate Professor Abigail Moncrieff and Harvard Law School Clinical Professor Robert Greenwald discuss health care costs and fragmentation.<\/p>\n

Health care coverage, costs and fragmentation was the focus of conversation for the first panel, which featured Harvard Law School Professor\u00a0Einer Elhauge, founding director of the Petrie-Flom Center; Harvard Law School Clinical Professor\u00a0Robert Greenwald<\/a>, director of HLS\u2019s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation<\/a>;\u00a0Allison Hoffman<\/a>, a professor of law at UCLA\u00a0and an academic fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center from 2008 to 2010; and\u00a0Abigail Moncrieff<\/a>, an associate professor of law at Boston University and an\u00a0academic fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center from 2007 to 2009. The panel was moderated by\u00a0Andrew Klaber MBA \u201909 JD \u201910<\/a>, president and founder of Even Ground<\/a>, an international nonprofit that annually provides support for children who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n

\"AndrewCredit: Martha Stewart
[L-R] Andrew Klaber, president and founder of Even Ground; Allison Hoffman, a professor of law at UCLA; Harvard Law School Professor Einer Elhauge; and Harvard Law School Clinical Professor Robert Greenwald.<\/p>\n

Panel 2: Bioethics and Law<\/a><\/p>\n

A panel on Bioethics and Law featured Harvard Law \u00a0School Professor and current Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Director\u00a0I. Glenn Cohen;\u00a0Holly Fernandez Lynch, executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center;\u00a0Michelle N. Meyer\u00a006,<\/a>\u00a0assistant professor of Bioethics at Clarkson University and\u00a0Director of Bioethics Policy<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Clarkson\u2013Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Bioethics Program<\/a> and an academic fellow at Petrie-Flom from 2010 to 2013;\u00a0Candice Player\u00a0\u201909<\/a>, assistant professor of law at Northwestern University;\u00a0Amanda C. Pustilnik<\/a>, professor of law at University of Maryland and a senior fellow in law and applied neuroscience at the Petrie-Flom Center from 2014 to 2015; and\u00a0Jeffrey Skopek<\/a>,\u00a0a lecturer in medical law, ethics and policy at the\u00a0University of Cambridge and an\u00a0academic fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center from 2011 to 2014. The panel was moderated by\u00a0John McGoldrick\u00a0LL.B \u201966, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and Zimmer Biomet Holdings.<\/p>\n

Keynote:\u00a0Closing the Gap Between Health Law and Health Policy<\/a><\/p>\n

Alan Weil MPP\/JD \u201989<\/a>, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, delivered the conference\u2019s keynote address. He discussed \u201cClosing the gap between health law and health policy.\u201d He\u00a0previously served as the executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research and policy organization.<\/p>\n

Panel 3: Health Innovation Policy and Regulating Novel Technology<\/a><\/p>\n

This discussion featured\u00a0Timo Minssen<\/a>, an associate law professor at the University of Copenhagen\u2019s Centre for Information and Innovation Law and a 2014 Petrie-Flom visiting scholar;\u00a0W. Nicholson Price II<\/a>, an assistant professor of law University of New Hampshire School and a Petrie-Flom academic fellow from 2012 to 2014; Assistant professor at MIT Sloan School of Management\u00a0Benjamin N. Roin\u00a0\u201905<\/a>, a Petrie-Flom academic fellow from 2006 to 2008, and a former Petrie-Flom faculty co-director;\u00a0Rachel E. Sachs \u201913<\/a>,\u00a0a current academic fellow at Petrie- Flom,2014-2016, and a student fellow in 2012-2013; and\u00a0Melissa Wasserman<\/a>, a professor at the University of Illinois College of Lawand a Petrie-Flom\u00a0academic fellow from 2009 to 2011.Neil Flanzraich\u00a0\u201968, Cantex Pharmaceuticals, moderated.<\/p>\n

Panel 4: Empirical Health Law<\/a><\/p>\n

The final panel of the day featured\u00a0Michael Frakes\u00a0\u201905<\/a>, an associate professor at Northwestern University School of Law\u00a0and a Petrie-Flom fellow from2009 to 2011;\u00a0Rebecca Haffajee\u00a0MPH\/JD \u201906<\/a>, a fellow in pharmaceutical policy research at\u00a0Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute,\u00a0and\u00a0a Petrie-Flom fellow from2010 to 2011;\u00a0Christopher T. Robertson\u00a0\u201907<\/a>, a professor of law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law who was a student fellow at Petrie-Flom from 2006-2007 and an academic fellow from2008 to 2010;Kathryn Zeiler<\/a>, a professor at Boston University School of Law\u00a0and a 2010 Petrie-Flom senior fellow.\u00a0Dennis Langer\u00a0\u201983, Georgetown University School of Medicine, moderated.<\/p>\n

Join us Sept. 11, 2025, 5\u20138 p.m. to celebrate two decades of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. More info is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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