Medico-Legal Symposium

Date: Monday, January 31, 2000

Time: 5:15 pm - 8:00 pm

Cost: $40, includes dinner

With continued economic and societal changes affecting health care, it is more important than ever for surgeons to have a firm understanding of physician liability, including its relationship to new technology and the physician's role in litigation. Join us as we explore medico-legal issues involving the Internet, e-mail, telemedicine, and new instrumentation and techniques, as well as the surgeon as an expert witness.

Michael R. Lowe, Esq., will discuss the changing liability concerns that new technology has introduced into a surgeon's world. Following, listen to STS members Ronald C. Elkins and Francis L. Robiscek, with lawyers Dominic Pellegrino and Luke M. Pittoni in a lively discussion on the surgeon's role in litigation.

Welcome and Introduction

Joseph A. Amato, Chair, Medico-Legal Committee

Dinner and Brief Film: The Psychological Effect of a Medical Suit on Physicians and Their Families

New Technology: Emerging Liability and Other Legal Issues
Michael R. Lowe, Esq., Ackerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, P.A.

The Surgeon's Role in Litigation

Ronald C. Elkins, Francis L. Robiscek, Dominic Pellegrino, Esq. , and Luke M. Pittoni, Esq.

Primary sponsorship for this event provided by Baxter Healthcare Corp., CardioVascular Group

Co-sponsors include: St. Jude Medical Inc., Heart Valve Division
Medtronic Inc.
Sulzer Carbomedics