RSS FeedDr. Sarita Verma at the Health Law Conference
First post in a series on the First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference.
Dr. Sarita Verma, Deputy Dean of Graduate Postgraduate education at UofT Medicine, is a family physician who originally trained as a lawyer at UofO.
She quickly polled the audience and found about half of the attendees were law students, half medical students, with some nursing, public health, and other graduate students.
The Tension Pentagon
Dr. Verma briefly discussed some of the many areas of health law where medicine and law interact. She noted that mental health was one of the growing areas of health law.
She then presented a new model she had developed to evaluate the context of health law issues. This tension pentagon was comprised of 5 different stakeholders, whose interests often conflicted and interacted with each other.
At the center of the pentagon was the public, which is important in creating a publicly-centered health system.
The 5 influencers were:
- ethics
- practitioners
- funders
- industry
- legal system
First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference
The First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference is being held this morning at UofT law. The session is being broadcasted live to viewers across the world.
Notes from the session can be found below.
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Dr. Sarita Verma at the Health Law Conference
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The Values and Ethics of Euthanasia
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The Harm Reduction Controversy & Injection Sites
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Law 101 for Health Care Professionals
