Health Law section members are invited.

Medical and Legal Issues Regarding the Constitutional Rights to Human Tissues. This will be a discussion of the medical and legal issues arising from Erik Woelber’s paper on “Constitutional Rights to Human Tissues” as well as a recent decision by the California Courts. Mr. Woelber is completing his Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at UAA and this paper was written for a recent Constitutional Law course.  Mr. Woelber graduated with a degree in History of Science/Medicine from Yale, where he was Executive Editor of the Yale Herald. He has done medical research at Yale and the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia and was formerly a Medical Editor at a communications company in Philadelphia, PA. He currently works for the RAM Group, an interdisciplinary lab at UAA.  Other guests include Barbra Nault, attorney with Bankston Gronning O'Hara, PC and co-chair of the Health Law Section; Brenda Stewart, R.N., Organ Donation Manager at Life Alaska Donor Services; and Bruce Zalneraitis, CEO of Life Alaska Donor Services. 1 Ethics Credit. 

For more section information, please contact co-Chairs Maribeth Conway at maribeth@theconwayfirm.com or 907-278-5291; or Steve Greer at steve@stephengreerlaw.com or 907-561-5520; or Tonja Woelber at twoelber@alaska.net or 907-272-0024.