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Dr Stuart Hogarth, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social
Science, Health and Medicine at King's College London
Stuart Hogarth is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Science,
Health and Medicine at King's College London. His research focuses on the
political economy of diagnostic innovation. His work combines empirical research
on the development, assessment and adoption of diagnostic technologies, with
normative analysis of public policy and commercial strategy. He has produced
reports on intellectual property rights and regulatory frameworks in personalized
medicine for the European Commission, Health Canada and the Human Genetics
Commission.
Dr Yann Joly, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of
Human Genetics, McGill University; Research Director, Centre of
Genomics and Policy
Yann Joly, Ph.D. (DCL), Ad.E. is a Lawyer Emeritus from the Quebec Bar and
the Research Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policies(CGP). He is a
research fellow from the Fonds de recherche du Québec- Santé (FRQS) and an
associate researcher at the Centre de recherche en droit public (Université de
Montréal). He also works as an ethics and legal consultant in the private sector
and serves as the Data Access Officer of the International Cancer Genome
Consortium (ICGC). His research activities lie at the interface of the fields of
intellectual property, health law (biotechnology and other emerging health
technologies) and bioethics. He has served as a legal advisor on several ethics
committees in the public and private sectors. Prof. Joly is a member of the
Scientific Committee of the legal journal Lex Elextronica and an Advisory Board
member of the Current Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine Journal.
He recently received the Quebec Bar Award of Merit (Innovation) for his work
on the right to privacy in the biomedical field.
Mr Terry Kaan, Associate Professor of Law, The University of Hong
Kong; Co-Director, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
Terry Kaan’s research interests span from tort law to medical ethics and law. He
has published articles and book chapters with regard to the issues of traditional,
contemporary and alternative medicine, and genetic privacy. His current research
is on how genetic testing impacts doctor-patient relationship.
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