Tenth Annual SIH/SIU Health Policy Institute
The Dangerous Patient: Medical, Legal and Public Policy Procedures
May 16, 2008

Risks to the public’s health abound in everyday life. Frequently, these risks to the population are connected to the behaviors of individuals. Situations presented, for example, by mentally ill persons who engage in violent conduct at public places resulting in death or serious injury to themselves and others and potentially infectious individuals who knowingly place a large number of other people at risk of contagion by their conduct engender significant medical, legal, and public policy considerations.

The medical, legal, and public policy challenges created by these and other threats to the public’s health directly confront many health care professionals, attorneys, public officials and educators. This program will identify and begin to address these important public policy challenges, especially in the context of shifting attention exclusively from attempting to predict and control the behavior of individual patients to a broader population-based intervention perspective.

For more information, visit the Health Policy Institute’s website.

Program Date: May 16, 2008

Program Times:

• 8:30 am - Registration
• 9:00 am - Introduction
• 9:15 am -
  • “The Dangerous Infected Patient: An Approach to Characterizing the Risks Posed by and Duties of Persons Infected with Communicable Disease Pathogens” Richard Goodman, MD, JD, Public Health Law Program, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta
• 10:15 am - Break
• 10:30 am -
  • “Dangerous People, Irrational Fears: Developing a Rational Jurisprudence for Non-Criminal Dangerousness” Edward Richards, Director, Program in Law, Science and Public Health, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University
• 11:30 am - Lunch
• 12:00 pm -
  • “The Dangerous Patient: The Legal Challenges to containing the Dangerous Patient during a Disease Outbreak or Bioterrorism Event” Marilyn Thomas, Chief Counsel, Illinois Department of Public Health
• 1:00 pm - Break
• 1:15 pm -
  • “Dangerous Perspectives: The Perils of Individualizing Public Health Concerns” Wendy Parmet, George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law, Program Director of the J.D./M.P.H. program with Tufts University School of Medicine
• 2:15 pm -
  • “The Imperfections of Protection Through Detection and Intervention: Lessons from Three Decades of Research on the Psychiatric Assessment of Violence Risk” Douglass Mossman, Professor and Director of the Division of Forensic Psychiatry at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, and Administrative Director of the Glenn W. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati College of Law
• 3:15 pm - Evaluation and Adjournment

Program Location: Lesar Law Building Southern Illinois University Carbondale Carbondale, IL

Fees:

• Registration (no CLE, CME, CNE needed): $50.00
• Registration with CLE, CME & CNE: $100.00
• SIU School of Law Alumni Registration with CLE, CME & CNE: $75.00
• Public Interest Attorneys Registration with CLE, CME & CNE: $75.00
• ISBA Healthcare Council: $75.00

All registrations include materials, refreshments and lunch. Parking Pass will be available for Lot 59 and 63/63A and will be distributed during registration.

A block of rooms is being held at the Hampton Inn, 2175 Reed Station Parkway Carbondale, IL. Please call 618-549-6900 and reference the School of Law and a confirmation number (81476765 or 81741373)

Registration Options:

If you would like to be billed, please complete the Invoice Information section on the last page of the registration. A PO is not necessary to submit an invoice. Register on-line for this course or call the Division of Continuing Education @ 618-536-7751

Last updated: April 28 2008.