| 8:00 - 8:35
| Registration
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8:35 - 8:50
| Opening Address
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8:50 - 10:35
| Panel One
- International Accreditation and Efforts to Improve International Health Care
- Harold J. Bressler, General Legal Counsel, Joint Commission International
- International Health Care Convergence: The Benefits & Burdens of Market-Driven Standardization
- Nathan Cortez, Assistant Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
- The Global Market for Health Care Economics and Regulation
- Thomas R. McLean, MD, MS, JD, FACS, Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery University of Kansas
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10:35 - 10:50
| Questions for Panel One
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10:50 - 11:05
| Morning Break
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11:05 - 12:15
| Panel Two
- A Comparison Between Public Health Insurance Programs and the Regulation of Private Health Insurance in the US, Mexico, and Canada: Could the EU Serve as a Model for Integration?
- Eleanor D. Kinney, JD, MPH, Co-Director, William S. & Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health at Indiana University School of Law
- Pandemic Planning: The Impact on Business and the Impact on the Delivery of Health Care
- Diane J. Romza-Kutz, Member of Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C.
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12:15 - 12:30
| Questions for Panel Two
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| 12:30 - 1:45
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Lunch Break
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1:45 - 3:15
| Panel Three
- The Impact of Recent Developments in EU law on National Health Care Systems of the Member States of the EU
- Johan Van de Gronden, Faculty of Law at Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
- How Will We Know when We Have an EU Health Policy?
- Scott L. Greer, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health
- Cross-border Health Care Rights, the European Court of Justice and Social Citizenship - The Accidental Death of a Concept?
- Christopher Newdick, Professor of Health Law, University of Reading (England)
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3:15 - 3:30
| Questions for Panel Three
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3:30 - 3:45
| Afternoon Break
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3:45 - 5:15
| Panel Four
- The Creation of EU Biological Citizens or Euro-Biocitizens through Medical Tourism Within the EU
- Dr. Mark L. Flear, Lecturer in Law and Library Officer, Queen's University Belfast
- Financing National Health Care in a Trans-national Environment - the Impact of the EC Internal Market
- Vassilis Hatzopoulos, Assistant Professor at the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges (Belgium)
- The construction of Healthier Europe: Lessons and Questions for EU Governance from the Fight Against Cancer
- Louise G. Trubek, Clinical Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
- Mark Nance, Ph.D.
candidate in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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5:15 - 5:30
| Questions for Panel Four
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5:30 - 5:45
| Closing Remarks
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