Past Events
Speaker: Valerie Gutmann Koch, Co-Director and Assistant Professor, Health Law & Policy Institute, University of Houston Law Center; Director of Law and Ethics, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT
Location: Zoom Webinar
Please join us for this Virtual Grand Rounds, Reimagining Informed Consent featuring Valerie Gutmann Koch.
This presentation will introduce a new standard for the legal doctrine of informed consent based on patient comprehension and consent, rather than physician disclosure. A proposal which represents a dramatic transformation of the common law and medical practice, the latter of which has conformed to the disclosure-focused approach in doctor-patient interactions mandated by the law.
Presentation Slides
Registration:
This program will only be offered online. 1.0 hour Indiana CLE (Distance Education) credit will be available but you must register for the Zoom Webinar using the link below. Following registration, you will receive an email with a link to join the Webinar.
Ensure you are joining the webinar from the Zoom application (desktop or mobile) to enable participation in the polling throughout the webinar for CLE credit. Please note joining the webinar from a web browser is not compatible and doing so will result in not receiving CLE credit.
CEU Certificates for Indiana Behavioral Health & Human Services Providers available.
E-mail certificates will be provided certifying attendance for those wishing to apply for CLE credit outside of Indiana.
About the Speaker:
Valerie Gutmann Koch is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Health Law & Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. She also serves as the Director of Law & Ethics at the University of Chicago MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Previously, she was the Jaharis Faculty Fellow at DePaul University College of Law and a Visiting Assistant Professor at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
As a scholar of bioethics, public policy, and health law, Professor Koch concentrates on how medical and technological advances have informed and sometimes transformed various areas of law, identifying ways in which law and policy is – or is not – equipped to address changes in technology and practice.
Professor Koch was the Special Advisor and Senior Attorney to the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, the state’s bioethics commission, where she crafted policy and guidance related to pandemic preparedness and crisis standards of care, human subjects research, and surrogate decision-making.
She earned her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, with a focus in bioethics. Following law school, she practiced intellectual property litigation at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Professor Koch is committed to public service, including serving as the Chair of the ABA’s Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law and Co-Chair of the Law Affinity Group for the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities.
