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On November 28, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy will hold a special event exploring the future of health care reform after the election, examining the Affordable Care Act, the Food and Drug Administration and other related topics.

On October 17, 2016, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School, the Yale Health Law and Policy Society, Outlaws, and Law Students for Reproductive Justice co-hosted a dinner discussion on assisted reproduction technologies (ART). The panel, entitled “The ‘ART’ of Family Formation: The Law and Ethics of Assisted Reproduction," featured Rich Vaughn, fertility law attorney and Chair of the ABA Family Law Section Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and Professor Doug NeJaime, Professor of Law at UCLA Law School, Director of the Williams Institute, and Visiting...

The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics announced that Aaron S. Kesselheim, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., will be the next Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, beginning on January 1, 2017. Kesselheim is a Visiting Associate Professor and Distinguished Visitor at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy. Read more.

Research at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy has produced a publication in the Health Affairs Blog concerning the politics of government negotiations and prescription drugs provided through Medicare.

Professor Abbe Gluck ’00 attended The Cancer Moonshot Summit on Wednesday, June 29, 2016 in Washington D.C., on behalf of the Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy at Yale Law School. The Cancer Moonshot Summit, an initiative led by Vice President Joseph Biden, is aimed at creating action and fostering collaborations around the goals of the Cancer Moonshot. The Summit is the first time that stakeholders representing all types of cancers have convened under one national charge. Attendees at summits across the nation included leaders representing the entire cancer community such as researchers...

The collaboration between between the Solomon Center and CASBI at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Rockefeller University has produced an article in the Hastings Center Bioethics Forum concerning issues of government accountability and transparency in the provision of health care to veterans with traumatic brain injuries (TBI).

Tamar Ezer will be the Executive Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy beginning July 1, 2016.

On May 11, 2016, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School and the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law co-hosted an alumni breakfast in New York City on innovation in the pharmaceutical industry.

Abbe R. Gluck ’00, Professor of Law, has been appointed to the New York State Department of Health Task Force on Life and the Law.

Kristen Underhill ’11 and Michael Ulrich, fellows working on health law in association with the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, have received academic appointments.