BUSPH is the only school of public health in the United States with a Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights. Department Chair George Annas, JD, MPH, is the nation’s leading expert on patients’ rights and authors the prominent "Legal Issues in Medicine" column for the New England Journal of Medicine.

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George Annas Participates in NEJM Video Roundtable on Controversial Infant Organ Retrieval

George Annas, Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, recently participated in a roundtable discussion hosted by the New England Journal of Medicine to address key ethical issues on organ donation. The panel discusses a report published in the August 14 issue of  NEJM, "The Dead Donor Rule and Organ Transplantation," which examines three cases of heart transplantation from infants who were pronounced dead on the basis of cardiac criteria. Watch...[Continued]