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Expanding the Duty to Follow to Include the Duty to Recontact?

March 18, 2019 - 12:00 pm

Professor Bartha Maria Knoppers, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine

The duty to follow one’s patient is part of the traditional duties of physicians (to inform; to treat; and, to hold confidential). Increasing reliance on genome sequencing will reshape the contours of this duty. Will reliance on, or recourse to, genetic variant databases within a comprehensive personalized medicine ecosystem change the limits of this duty?

Seminar on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetics

Monday, March 18, 2019 12:00-1:00pm

Rm. Rm. 10-405A&B, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, 10th Floor, Presbyterian Hospital (PH) Building, 622 W. 168th Street