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42 J.L. Med. & Ethics 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/medeth42 and id is 1 raw text is: LETTER FROM THE EDITOR THE RIGHT NOT TO KNOW * SPRING 2014 While the Journal ofLaw, Medicine & Ethics is the most important and most consistent feature of membership in the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, it is never a bad time to remind readers about all of the other great programs sponsored by ASLME. First is our signature conference, Health Law Professors (HLP), which is now in its 37th year. This year HLP will be held at the University of California's Hastings Col- lege of the Law in San Francisco from June 5-7. The Health Law Professors conference is ASLME's oldest and best-loved conference; it is a once-a-year chance for many old friends and colleagues to meet and catch up. We hope to see you there - whether you are an old friend or a new one. ASLME is also co-sponsoring two other conferences we are extraordinarily proud to be a part of in 2014. The first is the 2014 Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Keeping Patients in the Dark, which will be held at beautiful Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire on June 25-27. Patient choice and patient safety, which are vital planks in the mission ofASLME, are central to the questions being asked at this conference. ASLME, among other sponsoring duties, will be awarding continuing legal and medical credits to attendees. Secondly, in the autumn of this year, ASLME will serve for the ith time as sponsor and host of the Public Health Law Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. As in recent years, this conference will be held at the Loews Hotel on October 16-17. For more than a decade, we have watched the Public Health Law conference (under different names) grow from a modest meeting of around one hundred attendees to the position it holds today as one of the most important public health conferences in the county. This year's agenda promises to be even more exciting and thought-provoking than in previous years. Everyone is warmly invited to attend these conferences and all of our other events. Remarkably, even this packed conference schedule only scratches the surface ofASLME's activities. We continue, for instance, with our monthly public health law webinar series, which is produced in partnership with the Public Health Law Network and the Pub- lic Health Law Research Program. Our monthly newsletter, the ASLME Insider, continues to be an important source of news, information, and job announcements in the field of health law. Our sister publication, the American Journal ofLaw & Medicine, just completed another fascinating symposium on ACA implantation, which will be published in the next year. Finally, JLME, still nearest and dearest to my heart (and no editor would tell you differently) brings you another excellent symposium. In this issue, Bartha Knoppers's The Right Not to Know explores the question of when not to tell patients and research subjects about incidental findings and genetic research results, and what rights patients themselves have in the matter. We hope you enjoy this and all the many ben- efits ofASLME membership. Ted Hutchinson Editor JLME 1

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