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Symposium Presentations

A symposium was held in St. John's on April 22 and 23, 2008. Mr. Timothy Caulfield, Director of Research for the Commission, facilitated the symposium where those preparing papers and other experts made presentations before Justice Cameron and the Commission.

Those presentations are listed below.

Presentation of Bernard M. Dickens on Legal and Ethical Obligations of Public Health Authorities and Government

Presentation of Sherry Espin on Examining Disclosure Options: Procedures for Disclosing Adverse Events: A Literature Review

Presentation of Thomas H. Gallagher on Disclosing Unanticipated Outcomes to Patients: International Trends and Norms

Presentation of Gerald B. Robertson on The Legal Duty of Physicians to Disclose Medical Errors

Presentation of Philip Hébert on Disclosure: Ethical and Policy Considerations

Presentation of Joan M. Gilmour on Duty of Care; Standard of Care

Presentation of Peter G. Norton on The Patient Safety Movement: A Personal View

Presentation of Edward Etchells on Making Patients Safer

Presentation of Stephen Ward on Journalism and the Public Health