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6 Health L. Rev. 1 (1997-1998)

handle is hein.journals/hthlr6 and id is 1 raw text is: At the Institute Health Law Review Timothy A. Caulfield, Editor (1997) 6 Health L. Rev. No. 1, 1 1997 Health Law Review > 1997 1 We are pleased to announce the recent hiring of Erin Nelson in the new position of Project Manager. Erin, who was a physiotherapist before attending law school, was not completely unknown at the Health Law Institute. While she was a law student at the University of Alberta, she worked as a research assistant on a number of our genetic projects. Also, her tendency to win academic awards, including the Horace Harvey Gold Medal in Law and the Governor General's Silver Medal, made her somewhat notorious! After graduation Erin clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada and completed her articles at the Edmonton law firm, of Witten Binder. We feel very lucky to have her on board. 2 Erin will be taking a leadership role on many of the Health Law Institute's public education initiatives. For example, the Institute plans to begin a public education series in conjunction with the Centre for Constitutional Studies. The series will be held Saturday mornings at the law school and will cover topics of general interest. We hope to begin providing these lectures in the fall. 3 The Health Law Institute research initiatives continue to keep us extremely busy. For instance, I am currently examining the legal issues associated with the utilization of a genetic test for Alzheimer Disease on behalf of Stanford University's Program in Genomics, Ethics and Society. We have also begun work, largely through one of our research students, Kim Wrobel, on a large three-year project entitled The Law, Genetic Identification and the Family. This project, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), is being done in conjunction with our research partners at the Centre de recherche en droit public, University de Montreal (Professor Bartha Maria Knoppers is the principal investigator). 4 The focus of this issue of the Health Law Review is new developments in confidentiality law, both in legislation and in the common law. Two feature articles by Patricia Marck and Gerald Robertson deal with legislative developments in Alberta and Brent Windwick's comment on the Ryan case considers the common law development. 5 Finally, this issue also contains a short piece on changes at the Health Law Institute at Dalhousie University, Halifax.

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