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Professor Julia Mahoney moderated a panel discussion on the constitutionality of the recent health care reform legislation featuring professors Elizabeth Magill and Frederick Schauer, as well as Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow of the Cato Institute.

Game-changing advancements in prenatal genetic testing will soon force society to confront a host of difficult ethical, practical and legal questions, a law and biomedicine expert said at the Law School last week.

Dr. Robert D. Powers, a UVA clinical associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, speaks to Professor Thomas Hafemeister's Medical Malpractice class.

In her new book, "If That Ever Happens to Me: Making Life and Death Decisions After Terri Schiavo," Lois Shepherd, UVA associate professor of biomedical ethics and professor of law, details why simple answers were not right for Schiavo or for end-of-life decisions in general.

As both a prominent health law scholar and a former patient once hospitalized and restrained against her will during a long struggle with schizophrenia, Elyn Saks has a unique perspective on how to reform the treatment of the mentally ill.

Sarah Lock, the vice president of the Office of Policy Integration for the AARP, spoke to the Law School during a Colloquium on Health Care Reform.

Botswana's health future remains fraught with challenges despite the nation's exemplary governance, a Law and Medical School professor told students Monday.

Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, discussed the Obama administration and prospects for health care reform.

Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., from the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, discussed guaranteed health care in America at the Law School Nov. 20 as part of the Sadie Lewis Webb Lecture Series. Emanuel is a breast oncologist, philosopher and author/editor of several books.

Partisan gridlock and interest groups threaten to stifle future health care reform despite a Democratic-majority government, health policy analyst Carolyn Engelhard told Law School students Thursday.

Differences in fundamental values are at the root of disagreements over the future of the U.S. health system, said Stuart Butler, a leading scholar at one of the nation's most influential think tanks.

The election system needs reform to keep residents of long-term care facilities safe from political disenfranchisement and voter fraud, a bioethicist said Friday at the Law School.

A leading figure of one of the nation’s biggest nonprofit health care providers addressed the obstacles to state-based health care reform at a Law School lecture Thursday.

Carolyn Engelhard, an associate professor in the UVA Public Health Sciences department and co-author of "Health Care Half Truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality," talks about health care reform and the 2008 presidential election.

Michael Rodemeyer, J.D., former executive director of the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology; and Larisa Rudenko, Ph.D., senior advisor for Biotechnology, Center for Veterinary Medicine, FDA discuss the FDA's recent decisions on food use of cloned animals.

Robert Temple, M.D., director for Medical Policy for the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research discusses drug safety.

Fran Hawthorne, author of "Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat," talks about the influence of PHARMA on drug trials.

Michael R. Taylor, a professor at George Washington University and former FDA deputy commissioner for Policy and administrator of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, spoke about food safety and the FDA.

William K Hubbard, former senior associate commissioner of the FDA and senior advisor to the Coalition for a Stronger FDA spoke about the implications of new legislation and issues surrounding the importation of food and drugs.

Law school students gathered on Oct. 4 to witness a debate between Scott Ballenger, counsel for Abigail Alliance, and Richard Cooper, former chief counsel for the FDA, on whether or not terminally ill patients have a constitutional right of access to developmental drugs.

The P. Browning Hoffman Memorial Lecture in Law and Psychiatry features Rebecca Dresser, Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.