Ethical and Legal Considerations in Mitigating Pandemic Disease
 

PAHO Headquarters – Conference Room A
525 23^rd Street, NW
Washington, D.C.
September 19-20, 2006
AGENDATuesday, September 19, 2006

8:30:  Continental Breakfast

9:00:  Welcome and Opening Remarks - Stanley M. Lemon, M.D., Chair, Forum on Microbial Threats

9:15 – 10:00:  KEYNOTE ADDRESS:  Dr. David Heymann (WHO) "Past as Prologue?"

10:00 – 10:15:  Discussion

Session I: Understanding the Challenges of the Future by Examining the Past:  Influenza/Smallpox/SARS

Moderator: Ruth Berkelman, M.D., Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

10:15 – 11:00:  Contemplating Pandemics: The Role of Historical Inquiry in Developing Pandemic Mitigation Strategies for the 21st Century - Howard Markel, M.D., University of Michigan

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11:00- 11:45:  The Smallpox Eradication Campaign - D.A. Henderson, M.D. Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

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11:45 – 12:30:  Lessons from SARS – David Heymann, M.D., World Health Organization

12:30 – 1:00:  Session I Q&A

1:00 – 1:45:  LUNCH

Session II: Domestic, Regional and International Preparedness Planning

Moderator:  P. Frederick Sparling, M.D., Vice Chair, Forum on Microbial Threats

1:45 – 2:30:  US Government Preparedness Plans - Bruce Gellin, M.D., Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services       

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2:30 – 3:15:  Regional Planning Efforts – Oscar Mujica, M.D., MPH, PHE, Epidemiologist, Health Surveillance and Disease Management, Communicable Diseases Unit, Pan American Health Organization

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3:15 – 3:45:  Q & A

3:45 – 4:00    BREAK

4:00 – 4:45:  Ethical Considerations in International Preparedness Planning Efforts – Alexander Capron, University of Southern California  

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4:45 – 5:15:  Open Discussion of Session II

5:15– 6:00:  Open Discussion of Day 1

6:00 p.m.:  ADJOURN

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20^th, 2006

8:00:  Continental Breakfast

8:30:  Opening Remarks / Summary of Day 1:  Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., Vice Chair, Forum on Microbial Threats

Session III: Disease Mitigation Strategies –Quarantine, Containment & Modeling

Moderator: Gary Roselle, M.D., Program Director for Infectious Diseases, Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office

8:45 – 9:30:  Martin Cetron, M.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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9:30 – 10:15:  Lawrence Gostin, J.D., Georgetown University School of Law   

10:15 – 10:30:  Discussion

10:30 – 11:15:  The role of Modeling in Infectious Disease Mitigation and Containment, Joshua Epstein, Ph.D., The Brookings Institution

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11:15 – 11:45:  Discussion Panel:

Timothy C. Germann, Ph.D., Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jim LeDuc, M.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention                                            
Victoria Sutton, J.D., Ph.D., Texas Tech University School of Law  See presentation slides

11:45 – 12:30:  LUNCH

12:30 – 1:30:  Harvey Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D., President, Institute of Medicine -- luncheon remarks

                             Session IV: Ethical Issues in Pandemic Planning and Response

Moderator: Stanley M. Lemon, M.D.  Chair, Forum on Microbial Threats

1:30 – 2:15:  Bernard Lo, M.D., University of California San Francisco

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2:15 – 3:00:  Ruth Faden, Ph.D., Berman Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University

3:00 – 3:45:  Discussion Panel:

Steven Bice, Battelle, Atlanta, Georgia
DA Henderson, M.D., Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Shelley Hearne, DrPH, Johns Hopkins University  See presentation slides

3:45 – 4:30:  Open Discussion4:30 – 4:45:  Closing Remarks/Adjourn