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Conference: The Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Health and Social Services - Relevance and Associated Legal Issues

CIRANO

Monday 19 Nov 2018
From 12PM To 2PM

An event of the CIRANO Pole on the Socio-Economic Impacts of Digital and Innovation and AI

 

This conference by Mélanie Bourassa Forcier, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the Université de Sherbrooke and CIRANO Fellow, aimed to highlight the benefits of integrating artificial intelligence in the health and social services field and the various legal issues it raises.

Mélanie Bourassa Forcier

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2010, Main Researcher of the theme Innovation and Digital Transformation, Mélanie Bourassa Forcier is Professor at the École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP). She is also a member of the Commission de l'éthique en science et en technologie and Deputy Commissioner of Ethics and Regulations for the Commissioner of Health and Welfare.

Holding a Ph.D.in Pharmaceutical Patent Law from McGill University, has expertise in the regulatory framework relating to the marketing and reimbursement of new medical technologies. She is particularly interested in their potential use to make a health care system more efficient, the incentives that encourage their development and the standards that may represent barriers to their implementation in health care systems. She is currently focusing her research on the legal issues (privacy, patents, marketing, liability) related to the implementation of artificial intelligence in the health sector.

She sat on the Board of Directors of the Montreal Heart Institute for nearly 5 years, where she chaired the Risk Management and Vigilance Committees. She has been called upon to present various conferences in London and in the United States on the subject.She has edited and published numerous books and articles on the subject of pharmaceutical regulation and health law. She has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards and fellowships, including a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and the Commonweatlh Fellowship.

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Program

12:00 - 12:30
Welcome and Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Presentation

Location


1130 Rue Sherbrooke O #1400, Montréal, QC H3A 2M8, Canada