Marquette’s annual Elder’s Advisor CLE is March 26
The Push to Institutionalize Prevention: We Win, We Lose
Friday, March 26, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
333 West Kilbourn Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Tel: (414) 276-1234
Fax: (414) 276-6338
Theconference fee is $40—this includes continental breakfast, lunch, andreception. Scholarships available if needed. Marquette professors andstudents are admitted at no charge, but registration is required.
Please reserve your spot by March 19, 2010.
REGISTER: https://law.marquette.edu/cgi-bin/site.pl?2216&deEvent_eventID=2919&date=03-26-2010&utm_source=Law+School&utm_campaign=72d7c3893c-2010_02_23Weekly&utm_medium=email
9:30–10:00 a.m. • Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:00–10:30 a.m. • Welcome
Joseph D. Kearney, Dean and Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School
Meghan C. O’Connor, Editor-in-Chief, Marquette Elder’s Advisor
10:30–11:15 a.m. • Session I
Prevention of Illness: Tidings of Comfort and Ambiguity
Paul Bernstein, J.D., M.D., Aurora Health Care
Alison Barnes, Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School
11:15–11:30 a.m. • Break
11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. • Session II
The Economic Faces of Prevention
John D. Blum, J.D., M.H.S., Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Adam Atherly, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Health Systems Management and Policy, University of Colorado at Denver School of Public Health
12:15 p.m. • Lunch
1:45–2:30 p.m. • Session III
Primary and Chronic Care for People with Disabilities and Advanced Age
John V. Jacobi, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University Law School
Freeman Farrow, J.D., M.D., Assistant Professor of Law, DePaul University Law School
2:30–2:45 p.m. • Break
2:45–3:30 p.m. • Session IV and Closing Remarks
The Unfinished Agenda: Alternatives, Revisions, a Future
Alison Barnes, Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School
Reception follows the conference
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please contact Erica Hayden, erica.hayden@marquette.edu,
or KristyAnne Thompson, kristyanne.thompson@marquette.edu.
Elder’s Advisor: (414) 288-1915
CLE credits anticipated
The Push to Institutionalize Prevention: We Win, We Lose
Changing our activities and our eating, taking pills and potions,trying to improve a condition or its symptoms—all this is as old ashumankind. But the benign face of prevention—often found in the doctorwho knows the patient as a person—has changed as health care hasevolved, becoming a growing business of recommendations for screens andtests. The trigger that sets this process in motion in an individualcase is often the patient’s chronological age or chemistry, the latterrevealed when some other condition warrants general screening. Theresult for many people can be overtreatment, opening a patient to thepotential for invasive, lifelong side effects. And even thoughanecdotes relate the risks avoided, mortality rates are unchanged bysome preventive measures.
This symposium sheds light on theexcellent, the misguided, and the mysterious aspects of preventivecare, with recognition of the roles that law, policy, and politics playthrough finance and quality assurance. For this discussion, we bringtogether scholars and experts in health and medicine—people who canassess both the public debate and the human and economic aspects ofprevention.
You should wish to attend this conference if you area practitioner or academic in law, public health, nursing, alliedhealth professions, or community medicine, or if you take part inhealth-related policymaking on a local, state, or federal level.