[Yls-lawandhealth] YLS Law and Health Announcements - 6 events today!

[Barnett, Megan]

Yale Law School Law and Health Initiative


            If you have events or other announcements you would like to share, please send them to yls-lawandhealth at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:yls-lawandhealth at mailman.yale.edu>.


I.  Health-related events at YLS this week:

1) Wednesday - April 23

Professor Michael J. Sandel, Professor of Government, Harvard University
presenting his new book
The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
4:15-6:00 pm
Yale Law School, Room 127
Light refreshments will be served
Co-sponsored by The Yale Information Society Project and Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

2)  Thursday, April 24

Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley and author of  In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
"Reaping What We Sow: How Federal Food and Farm Policy Underwrites the Obesity Epidemic" - A Conversation
10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Yale Law School Faculty Lounge
Co-sponsored by Yale Law School Law and Health Initiative<http://www.law.yale.edu/academics/lawandhealth.htm>, the YLS Law and Media Program, and CitySeed<http://www.cityseed.org/>.

Please note that there is limited seating for this event, and priority will be given to Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health students.  To reserve your spot, or for more information, please contact shaan.chaturvedi at yale.edu<mailto:shaan.chaturvedi at yale.edu>.

(For additional Michael Pollan events on Wednesday, April 23, please see below)

II.  Health-related events around the University:

3) April 23 - Wednesday
Michael Pollan
Masters Tea
4:00, Jonathan Edwards College, 100 Tower Parkway

Reading and talk, "On The Plate and In the Garden: Nature Writing After Wilderness"
7:00 pm, Room 114, Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect St.

Pollan is regarded as one of America's leading writers on the interplay of nature and humanity. In his two most recent books, he has explored fundamental questions about the relations of humans to the food they consume. In The Omnivore's Dilemma Pollan introduced readers to such mechanisms of food production as industrial feedlots and "wet mill" processing plants. Largely to offer guidance to perplexed readers of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Pollan wrote In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, a book that has as its opening line: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

Pollan has been a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine since 1987 and, since 2003, the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

4) April 23 - Wednesday
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Auditorium, The Anlyan Center, 300 Cedar Street
Sponsors: Office of Cooperative Research / CURE
Topic: Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series Featuring Vidus Ocular Inc.
(Registration required: 203-785-6209 or biohaven at yale.edu<mailto:biohaven at yale.edu>.  For more information, visit www.yale.edu/ocr/news/biohaven.html<http://www.yale.edu/ocr/news/biohaven.html>)
5) April 23 - Wednesday
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Room 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street
Sponsor: Saybrook College
Speaker: Mark Bittman
Topic: Food Matters - A Look at Eating, Agriculture and Global Warming

6)  Wednesday, April 23
Shahram  Ahari, MPH
"Confessions of a Drug Rep"
Beaumont Room at the Sterling Hall of Medicine (333  Cedar Street)
6:00 pm - dinner, talk at 6:10pm to be followed by lively discussion

Shahram Ahari will speak with us about his years as a drug rep for Eli Lilly.

A quick bio:
Shahram Ahari is a former Eli Lilly Sales Representative for whom he sold Zyprexa and Prozac in New York City. Moral and ethical problems encountered in his job motivated Mr. Ahari to dedicate himself to public health and social justice issues. He has been a consultant to several private organizations, states governments and Congressional  committees regarding issues relating to health and pharmaceutical marketing. He has been interviewed by a variety of television, radio, internet and print news groups. Most recently, he has testified before the US Senate on how pharmaceutical marketing works (or fails) to educate doctors and interviewed by ABC World News. Mr. Ahari holds an  MPH from UC Berkeley with specialties in infectious diseases and international health.

-  aaron feinstein
yale school of medicine
medical student council president

7)  April 24 - Thursday
"China's Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic"

Zunyou Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Director
National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Beijing, China

LEPH Room 101, 60 College Street, New Haven
Thursday, April 24, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

RSVP: Nicole.whitcher at yale.edu<mailto:Nicole.whitcher at yale.edu>
For further information, email Nicole Whitcher at the above address or call 203-764-4337.

8)  April 25 - Friday
Genetically Modified Plant Symposium: "Alternative Paths to Agricultural Sustainability"
(sponsored by the Genetically Modified Plant Study Group)
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: 305 Bass Hall, 266 Whitney Avenue
Speakers: Michael Edgerton, Technical Lead for Corn Ethanol and Quality Traits, Monsanto Corporation; Nina Fedoroff, Evan Pugh Professor of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, and Science and Technology Advisor to the United States Secretary of State; Prabu Pingali, Director, Agricultural and Developmental Economics Division, FAO, and Gates Foundation
(Reception immediately following. For further information and reservations, contact <carol.pollard at yale.edu<mailto:carol.pollard at yale.edu>> or <nancy.kerk at yale.edu<mailto:nancy.kerk at yale.edu>>.)

Alternative Paths to Agricultural Sustainability

With global awareness of the pressing concerns for environmental sustainability resulting from human population growth and development, this symposium will   focus on agricultural themes related to: land and water use, soil remediation, renewable sources of fuels, environmental problems of weeds and pathogens that affect crop yields, and the part that genetically modified plants may play in solutions to these problems.

11:30 am
Nina Fedoroff
Evan Pugh Professor of Biology,  Pennsylvania State University, and Science and Technology Advisor to US Secretary of State
Biotechnology and Science Diplomacy

1:30 pm
Michael Edgerton
Technical Lead for Corn Ethanol and Quality Traits
Monsanto Corp
The Impact of improved genetics and traits on biofuel production

2:30 pm
Prabu Pingali
Director, Agricultural and Developmental Economics Divn., FAO and Gates Foundation
Will the Gene Revolution Reach the Poor?  Lessons from the Green Revolution

Reception to Follow Presentations


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