International Symposium: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine? Updated or Outdated?

11 July 2011

9h00 – Welcome adress: Prof. Dr. Guilherme de Oliveira

9h15-10h30

Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Guilherme de Oliveira

PRINCIPLES

· Lia NEVES – Health: a non static phenomenon

· Radmila HREVTSOVA – Ensuring equitable access to health care in East European countries: problems and prospects

· Luís VALE – Access to health care, between rationing and responsiveness: problem(s) and meaning

· Mafalda MATOS – ‘Off-Label’ – Off-Law?

Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Costa Andrade

11h00-13h00

INFORMED CONSENT

· Rafael REIS, Medical Research Using Biobanks: Do We Need To Boost Our Concept Of Informed Consent?

· Fabiana REGO/ Mara FREITAS – Previously expressed wishes

· Filipa SÁ – Advance Directives

· Eduardo DANTAS – Informed Consent and Informed Choice

· Washington FONSECA – Assisted suicide, euthanasia, orthotanasia: the inadmissibility of the right to kill terminally ill patients.

Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Helena Moniz

14h30-15h30

PRIVATE LIFE AND RIGHT TO INFORMATION

· Jean HERVEG – The Right to Private Life in the field of Biomedicine

· Lukáš PRUDIL – Privacy protection in the times of Facebook

Chairperson: Prof. Dr. João Loureiro

15h45-17h00

HUMAN GENOME

· Anne-Marie DUGUET – Genetic information

· Camilla FITTIPALDI – The Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention on Genetic Testing for Health Purposes: step forward against the direct-to-consumer genetic testing services?

· Elisabete FERREIRA – Intangibility of human genetic identity: Is this really a human right? Why?

12 July 2011

Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Sinde Monteiro

9h00-10h30

HUMAN GENOME/ ASSISTED REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES

· Allane MADANAMOOTHOO – The Oviedo Convention and Surrogacy

· Margarida SILVESTRE – Sex selection and assisted reproduction technologies.

Chairperson: Dr. Maria de Belém Roseira

11h00-13h00

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

· Annagrazia ALTAVILLA – Research with children: current trends and perspectives

· Vera RAPOSO – Juridical Status of Human Embryos and Foetus at the Oviedo Convention

· Maria MERUJE – Article 18 of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine – the case for embryonic stem cells

14h30-16h00

Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Faria Costa

ORGAN AND TISSUE REMOVAL FROM LIVING DONORS FOR TRANSPLANTATION PURPOSES

· Lydia NUNES – Brief observations about organ and tissue removal from living donors for transplantation in Brazilian law

PROHIBITION OF FINANTIAL GAIN AND DISPOSAL OF A PART OF THE HUMAN BODY

· Gonçalo BANDEIRA: Of course that we need an international convention that helps to avoid trafficking in organs – some old-new civil and criminal aspects

· Alexandre PEREIRA: Biotechnological Corporations and the prohibition of financial gain and disposal of a part of the human body

· Natalia LOJKO: Biotechnology and intellectual property – should patents be moral?

Chairperson: Prof. Anne-Marie Duguet

16h15-17h30

INFRINGEMENTS OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE CONVENTION

· Jana KOLÁČKOVÁ – Bioethics and biomedicine in the ECHR case-law

· Katerina CERNEVA – Patients´ Complaint Proceeding and the Oviedo Convention in the Czech Republic

· Marta VICENTE – Wrongful life actions

18h00 – “Happy Hour”

Executive Director:

André Pereira

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Organization:

Centro de Direito Biomédico

Centre for Biomedical Law

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Tel/ Fax: +351-239821043

Price:

· General: € 100

· Ex-Students of the Centre for Biomedical Law: €75

· Students from Portuguese Universities (and European Union): €50