Symposium 2018

Black Market Gold: Medical and Transplant Tourism

How Have the Scientific and Medical-Communitites Responded to Stringent Regulation and the Organ Shortage Crisis?

March 22, 2018 from 11:30 AM – 5:00 PM

1st Floor Function Room, Suffolk University Law School

The Journal of Health and Biomedical Law proudly held a Symposium on medical tourism, transplant tourism, and emerging ways to combat the organ shortage crisis.  Part I of the Symposium discussed how the organ shortage crisis and stringent medical regulations have fueled an underground movement toward medical and transplant tourism.  Part II discussed how to increase the supply by paving the way for scientific advances to address the organ shortage crisis.

Panelists

Joshua Gershlak
Ph.D. candidate and researcher in biomedical engineering, Worchester Polytechnical Institute

Joshua Gershlak is performing research on the use of spinach leaves as the foundation for new engineered heart tissue.

Alexandra K. Glazier
President and CEO, New England Organ Bank

Alexandra Glazier is also the Chair of the Legislative Committee for the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) and a consultant to Donate Life America.

Jed Adam Gross
Bioethicist, University Health Network, Toronto

Jed Adam Gross’s current scholarship examines the development of laws and other social controls governing transplant medicine in the United States.

Evelyn Tenenbaum
Professor of Law, Albany Law School

Evelyn Tenenbaum is also a Professor of Bioethics at Albany Medical College and a member fo the Ethics Review Committee at Albany Medical Center.

Moderator

Renée M. Landers, JD
Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School
Faculty Director, Health and Biomedical Law Concentration

The theme book on the topic will be published shortly.  This book features contributions by panelists and JHBL staffers.  

This issue will be available in our Publications Tab and through Westlaw and Lexis.  

For a physical copy of the issue, please contact the Editor-in-Chief at jhbl@suffolk.edu.