In this webinar, experts in medicine, health care law, and bioethics will discuss potential COVID vaccination policies.
Dr. Lederman will begin by explaining what would make a COVID vaccine safe and highly effective and when one might be available, the nature and limits of herd immunity, and the health benefits from universal COVID vaccination.
Professor Mehlman will discuss legal considerations in fostering widespread vaccination, including the scope of the government’s authority to require vaccination, the steps that the private sector might take to foster widespread vaccination, and the extent to which the law is required to defer to individual choice.
Dr. Youngner will conclude by examining the ethical principles involved in universal vaccination, and what we can learn from responses to analogous challenges in the past.
Title:
The Elena and Miles Zaremski Law Medicine Forum
Webinar Date+Time:
Thursday, October 1, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Time
Speakers:
- Maxwell J. Mehlman is the Distinguished University Professor, Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, and Director of the Law-Medicine Center at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
- Dr. Michael Lederman is Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals/Case Medical Center where he is also Professor of Pathology, Microbiology/Molecular Biology and Biomedical Ethics.
- Stuart J. Youngner is a nationally- and internationally-recognized scholar in biomedical ethics and has published and spoken on topics, including: decisions to limit life-sustaining treatment; ethics committees; physician-assisted suicide; advance directives; definitions of death; clinical ethics; ethical issues in organ and tissue retrieval and transplantation.
By:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:
- Ohio: 1 hour of online CLE credit, pending approval
- Other Jurisdictions: You may be able to self-apply to your credit-granting authority
Cost:
Free and open to the public.
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