Online Webinar: Health Care Institutions, Hippocratic Duty, and Immigration Enforcement

The Hippocratic ideal of undivided commitment to patients’ welfare has been central to the practice of medicine for a millennium. U.S. and international law demands it. Medical ethics insists upon it.

Yet public officials looking to ramp up deportation of unauthorized migrants to the U.S. now expect health care institutions to assist—to the point of permitting enforcement personnel to enter medical facilities to apprehend patients and family members.

This event will consider conflict between care providers’ Hippocratic duty and demands that they participate in immigration enforcement.

• Hosted and Moderated by Gregg Bloche, MD, JD
  Carmack Waterhouse Prof of Health Law, Policy, & Ethics, Georgetown Law
• Matt Lopas, JD
  Director of State Advocacy, National Immigration Law Center
• Altaf Saadi, MD, MSc
  Assistant Prof of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
• Thomas Saenz, JD
  President & General Counsel, MALDEF
• Julie Linton, MD
  Committee on Federal Government Affairs, American Academy of Pediatrics

All questions and accommodation requests can be made at lawrsvp@georgetown.edu by Tuesday, February 25th.