Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, CONFERENCES: ABA Section of Antitrust Law to hold symposium in Chicago, (Jul 7, 2016)
Organizations Mentioned:Loyola University Chicago School of Law | University of Pennsylvania
The 2016 Symposium on Reconciling Competition and Consumer Protection in Health Care will be held at Loyola University Chicago School of Law on September 20, 2016. Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Beazley Institute for Health Law & Policy, and Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies are co-sponsoring the one-day program with the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law. The conference will bring together leaders in the study, practice, and regulation of law, economics, medicine, and health policy to examine how antitrust and consumer protection succeed and fail in the health care sector and how we can do better.
William MacLeod, ABA Antitrust Section chair elect, and Spencer Weber Waller, Director of Loyola's Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, will kick off the program with welcome remarks. The first morning panel will consider responding to market power in health care with Leigh Oliver (moderator), Thomas Greaney, and Barak Richman. A program on regulating competition in health care will follow with Monica Noether (moderator), David Hyman, former FTC Chairman William Kovacic, and William Sage. Dr. Ezekiel J. Emmanuel, Vice-Provost of the University of Pennsylvania is scheduled to provide luncheon remarks. In the afternoon, Roxane Busey and Spencer Weber Waller will serve as commentators on a panel, considering "How Much of Health Care Antitrust is Really Antitrust."
Details are available at: http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/events/antitrust_law/2016/09/agenda_symposium.authcheckdam.pdf.
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