Fenwick & West TESLaw Lecture to Examine ‘Personalized Medicine’
Personalized medicine--the use of new technologies to tailor treatment to the unique genetic and molecular characteristics of individual patients--is revolutionizing health care. The 2010 Fenwick & West TESLaw will bring an impressive line-up of industry professionals and legal experts to King Hall to discuss personalized medicine and its implications for the health care industry, consumers, and the law.
The day-long event, to be held in King Hall's new Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom on November 5, will begin with a welcome address from Dean Kevin R. Johnson and Fenwick & West Partner David Bell at 9:30 am.
All King Hall alumni are invited to attend! (Your RSVP is appreciated.)
Kathryn Lowell, California Deputy Secretary for Life Sciences and Health Systems will deliver the keynote address at noon. Appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency Secretary Dale E. Bonner to develop policy and strategic initiatives to advance the California-based health and life science market, Lowell is the state's point person for health care information and technology policy. Prior to her current position, she was Vice President for Strategic Growth at Lumetra, a health care consulting firm, and Vice President of Maximus, a national IT and government services consulting firm. Prior to her consulting work, Kathryn was Assistant Secretary for Health at the California Health and Human Services Agency.
The symposium will also feature the following panels:
"From the Lab to the Patient: Intellectual Property in Personalized Medicine"
Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom (Room 1001), 10:30 am- 11:45 am
Moderator: Peter Lee, Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
Panelists:
- Barbara Brenner, Executive Director, Breast Cancer Action
- Mark Capone, President, Myriad Genetic Laboratories
- Clinton Neagley, Associate Director, UC Davis InnovationAccess - Technology Transfer Services
- Michael Shuster, Partner, Fenwick & West
"Issues for Entrepreneurs in the Nascent Industry"
Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom, 1:45 pm- 3:00 pm
Moderator: Stephen Graham, Partner, Fenwick & West
Panelists:
- Rowan E. Chapman, Ph.D., Mohr Davidow Ventures
- Marc Hellerstein, M.D., Ph.D., co-founder of Kinemed
- Garrett Vygantas, M.D., Entrepreneur-In-Residence / Director, Venture Group, Burrill & Co.
"Consumers in the New Personalized Medicine Model"
Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom, 3:15 pm- 4:45 pm
Moderator: Lisa Ikemoto, Professor at Law, UC Davis School of Law
Panelists:
- Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Ph.D., Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford Medical School
- Beatrice O'Keefe, Laboratory Field Services, Department of Public Health
- Michael Wilkes, Vice Dean of the School of Medicine and Director of Global Health, UC Davis Health Systems
The TESLaw Lecture Series, generously sponsored by Fenwick & West, is a five-year program of annual symposia focused on providing practitioners, academics, and students with the knowledge base to successfully address the challenges that are inherent to the computing, digital communications, social media, "clean" technology, and life sciences and biotechnology markets of the 21st century.