Medical Tourism Meets Health Law: US-EU Dialogue

Date:  March 7, 2008 Time:  8:30 AM - 5:45 PM Location:  Room 1335, Health Sciences Learning Center Email:  WILJSymposium@gmail.com Web Address:  http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wilj/symposium/2008/index.html Sponsor:  Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), Wisconsin International Law Journal, Global Legal Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence, Center for European Studies, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Health Law Section-Wisconsin State Bar, Global Studies, East Asian Legal Studies Center, Academy Health-Student Chapter Cost:  Free, Registration required

Medical Tourism Meets Health Law: US-EU Dialogue
Wisconsin International Law Journal 2008 Symposium

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SCHEDULE:
8:00-8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:45 Introduction and Welcome

8:45-10:30 Panel One [video/audio]
**International Accreditation and Efforts to Improve International Health Care
**The Converging International Standards in Health Care: How the Convergence of Standards is Facilitating Cross-Border Health Care
**The Global Market for Health Care Economics and Regulation

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:30 Panel Two [video/audio]
**A Comparison Between Public Health Insurance Programs and the Regulation of Private Health Insurance in the US, Mexico and Canada: Could the European Union Serve as a Model for Integration?
**Medical Tourism in Lesser Developed Countries: Diverting Doctors or Increasing Investment?
**Pandemic Planning: The Impact on Business and the Impact on the Delivery of Health Care

12:30-1:45 Break for Lunch

1:45-3:30 Panel Three [video/audio]
**The Impact of Recent Developments in EU law on the National Health Care Systems of the Member States of the  EU
**How Will We Know When We Have an EU Health Policy?
**Cross-border Health Care Rights, The European Court of Justice and Social Citizenship- The Accidental Death of a Concept?

3:30-3:45 Coffee Break

3:45-5:30 Panel Four [video/audio]
**The Creation of EU Biological Citizens or Euro-Biocitizens through Medical Tourism Within the EU
**Financing National Health Care in a Trans-national Environment - the Impact of the EC Internal Market
**The Construction of Healthier Europe: Lessons and Questions for EU Governance from the Fight Against Cancer

5:30-5:45 Closing Remarks

SPEAKERS:
- Harold J. Bressler, General Legal Counsel, Joint Commission International
- Nathan Cortez, Assistant Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
- Dr. Mark L. Flear, Lecturer in Law and Library Officer, Queen's University Belfast
- Scott L. Greer, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health
- Vassilis Hatzopoulos, Assistant Professor at the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges (Belgium)
- Eleanor D. Kinney, JD, MPH, Co-Director, William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health at Indiana University School of Law –Indianapolis
- Thomas R. McLean, MD, MS, JD, FACS, Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, the UMKC School of Medicine; Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery University of Kansas
- Christopher Newdick, Professor of Health Law, University of Reading (England)
- Frank Pasquale, Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School
- Diane J. Romza-Kutz, member of Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C.
- Johan Van De Gronden, Faculty of Law at Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
- Louise G. Trubek, Clinical Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School

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