Anniversary Symposium
30th Anniversary: Three Decades of Civil Discourse on Difficult Issues
On November 25, 2015, the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law commemorated its 30th anniversary with a symposium and Celebratory Dinner. The event was possible through the generous support of the New York City Bar Associations Bioethical Issues Committee.
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Opening Remarks
- Howard Zucker, M.D., J.D., LL.M Commissioner, New York State Department of Health Chair, Task Force on Life and the Law
- Stuart Sherman, J.D., M.P.H., Executive Director of the Task Force on Life and the Law
Gov. Cuomo and Others Remembered
- Tracy Miller, J.D., Health Care Practice, Bond, Schoeneck & King, Former Task Force Executive Director
In Remembrance of
- Governor Mario Cuomo
- Commissioner David Axelrod
- Commissioner Richard Daines
- Adrienne Asch
- John Arras
- Richard Concannon
- Barry Gold
- Saul Farber
- Georgia McMurray
- John Regan
- Barbara Shack
- Robert Smith
- Elizabeth Stack
- Charles Tobin, Jr.
Bioethics: The Shape of the Field Today
- Bruce Jennings, Director of Bioethics, Center for Humans and Nature, Senior Advisor, The Hastings Center
- Mary Beth Morrissey, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.H Chair, Bioethical Issues Committee, NYCBA, Research Fellow and Director of Health Care Management Certificate Program, Global Healthcare Innovation Management Center, Fordham University
Keynote Address: "Bioethics at the Cutting Edge"
- Arthur Caplan, Ph. D., Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty, Chair Director, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU Langone Medical Center
Three Decades of Civil Discourse on Difficult Issues
- Carl Coleman, J.D., A.M., Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School, Former Task Force Executive Director
- Francis H. Geer, M. Div., Rector of St. Philip's Church in the Highlands in Garrison, N.Y., current Task Force member
- Samuel Gorovitz, Ph. D., Professor of Philosophy; The College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse, University, current Task Force member
- Tracy Miller, J.D., Health Care Practice, Bond, Schoeneck & King, former Task Force Executive Director
- Tia Powell, M.D., Director, Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics, former Task Force Executive Director
- Robert N. Swidler, J.D., V.P. Legal Services for St. Peter's Health Partners, current Task Force member, former Task Force Counsel
- Moderator: Stuart Sherman, J.D., M.P.H., Executive Director, Task Force on Life and the Law
- Panelists introduced by Susie Han, M.A., M.A., Deputy Director, Task Force on Life and the Law
20th Anniversary: Bioethics and Public Policy Initiatives: Celebrating the Past and Building the Future
On March 3, 2005, the New York State Task Force on Life & the Law commemorated its 20th Anniversary with a Symposium and Celebratory Luncheon. The event was funded by a generous grant from the Greenwall Foundation.
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Opening Remarks
- Donald P. Berens, Jr., J.D., General Counsel, New York State Department of Health
- Alan Fleischman, M.D., Senior Advisor, The New York Academy of Medicine, and Ethics Advisor, National Children's Study, National Institutes of Health
Panel Discussion Participants
- John D. Arras, Ph.D., Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia
- Carl H. Coleman, J.D., Associate Professor of Law and Director, Health Law & Policy Program, Seton Hall University School of Law
- Nancy Neveloff Dubler, LL.B., Director, Division of Bioethics, Montefiore Medical Center
- Tracy E. Miller, J.D., General Counsel, Senior Vice President, Catholic Health Care System
- Tia Powell, M.D., Executive Director, New York State Task Force on Life & the Law
Keynote Address: "What Bioethics Can Learn from AIDS Relief in Africa"
Mark Barnes, JD, LLM
Partner, Ropes & Gray
Luncheon Speaker
- Samuel Gorovitz, Ph.D., Founding Director, Renée Crown University Honors Program, Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University and Bioethicist in Residence, Yale University