March 5, 2009 Gala Dinner (To see pictures from conference sessions click here.)
The University of Minnesota's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences and Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences celebrated their 10th Anniversary with a March 5, 2009 Gala Dinner at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. The Gala Dinner celebrated the achievements of the Consortium and Joint Degree Program of the last 10 years and preceded the March 6 conference on What's Next in Law, Health & the Life Sciences? Debating Openness, Access & Accountability.
University President Robert Bruininks delivered the welcome at the dinner, reflecting on the Consortium's decade of achievements. Consortium founding chair and Joint Degree Program founding director Professor Susan Wolf reflected on the Consortium's history.
Professor Arthur Caplan, PhD, Emanuel Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics; Chair, Department of Medical Ethics; and Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, then delivered the dinner keynote on Conflict of Interest on Peer Review: What Ought to Be Done? View Online
He praised the Consortium as a "leading program in the country on the societal implications of biomedicine & life sciences" and congratulated the Joint Degree Program for "producing the next generation of leaders at the interface of law, science, and medicine."
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University of Minnesota President Robert H. Bruininks
delivers the Welcome Address at the Gala Dinner. 
Prof. Arthur Caplan, PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
–pictured here with Prof. Eugene Borgida, PhD (University of Minnesota)– delivered the keynote address at the Gala Dinner. 
Joint Degree Program Alums Erin Furlong, JD, MPH
and Kari Bomash, JD, MPH with JDP Advisory Board member Ryan Johnson, Esq. at the Gala Dinner 
Regents Professor Patricia Simmons, MD, Prof. Barbara Koenig, PhD (Mayo Clinic/University of Minnesota), and Prof. Susan M. Wolf, JD, at the Gala Dinner
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JDP Advisory Board members Ruth Mickelsen, JD, MPH, and Margo Struthers, JD at the March 5 Gala Dinner
Prof. Michele Goodwin, JD, LLM (Law School)
and Prof. Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin, LLB, PhD (Law School) at the Gala Dinner 
JDP Advisory Board member Martha Brand, JD,
Prof. Alex Klass, JD, and Law School Dean David Wippman at the March 5 Gala Dinner |