Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Speaker at “Reference re. Assisted Human Reproduction Act – Implications of the Supreme Court’s Decision” at University of Toronto Law School. November 4-5, 2011
Speaker on “Courts as a Cost-Driver” at the CIHR Best Brains Exchange for Deputy Ministers in the Atlantic Provinces on the topic, “Health System Renewal in Atlantic Canada”. November 2, 2011, Fall River, Nova Scotia.
Presented “Is Canada Odd? European and Canadian Approaches to Choice and Regulation of the Public/Private Divide” at Victoria University, Wellington NZ. September 1, 2011.
Speaker at the “Health Care Rationing Conference” at Erasmus Observatory on Health Law (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) an international conference discussing health care rationing from a wide range of perspectives. December 9-10, 2010, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Presented “Canadian Medical Malpractice Law in 2011: Missing the Mark on Patient Safety Medical Malpractice Law in Canada” in Vienna at a conference entitled “Medical Malpractice Liability and Compensation from a Global Perspective”. December 2, 2010, Vienna, Austria.
Presenter at the NHMRC Scientific Symposium and Workshop “Evidence into primary care – research translation and improved outcomes for patients”. This workshop consisted of short presentations from leading researchers followed by a workshop with invited government and non-government leaders in policy and practice. The goal of this workshop was to help NHMRC develop ideas as to how we can embed research and evidence into the provision of healthcare. November 10, 2010, Canberra, Australia
Presented opening remarks at the symposium on “Drug Promotion, Quality and Patient Safety”. The aim of the symposium was to provide researchers and policy-makers an opportunity to explore drug promotion regulation in terms of quality of information and impacts on patient safety. It also included discussion of the results of a comparative study examining the quality of information provided to primary care physicians by pharmaceutical sales representatives in the United States, France and Canada. November...
Invited to Washington and Lee University to present a paper entitled “Charter Rights & Health Care Funding: A Typology of Canadian Health Rights Litigation”. October 4, 2010, Lexington, Virginia.
Keynote speaker at Knowledge Utilization Colloquium on Public Policymaking Environments. June 10, 2010, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Speaker at an invitation-only workshop on prescription drug financing and sustainability. The objective of this workshop was to stimulate candid and informed discussions about prescription drug financing options that may be viable alternatives to the status quo in Canada. May 10, 2010, Toronto, Ontario.
