The UC San Francisco/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy, with the Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal, is sponsoring a conference at UC Hastings Law, entitled “Implementing the Tobacco Control Act: Advice to FDA.” The conference is free and open to the public and is intended to promote discussion and develop responses to the Food and Drug Administration’s request for recommendations on how to best achieve the nation’s new goals regarding tobacco.

The President signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act on June 22, 2009, for the first time giving significant regulatory power over tobacco products to the federal government.  The FDA is charged with implementing the new statute, and has asked the public to comment on the approaches and actions it should take initially to “increase the likelihood of reducing the incidence and prevalence of tobacco product use and protecting the public health.”  At this conference, experts on the many scientific, legal, and policy issues surrounding tobacco control will gather to share ideas for FDA implementation of the new law.  Proceedings from the conference will be filed as comments with FDA.

Four hour-long panels will address the following topics: Federal, State, and Local Government Collaboration (10 am); Advertising, Marketing, Sale, and Distribution of Tobacco Products (11:15 am); Smoking Cessation and Tobacco Addiction (2:30 pm); and Prevention of Tobacco Use (3:45 pm).  Professor Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF, will deliver a keynote address at 1:30 pm.  Participants may attend any or all parts of the program.   

Lunch will be provided in the Skyroom at Hastings (100 McAllister Street) to a limited number of participants who pre-register to attend the conference.

To register, e-mail your name and affiliation, if any, to HastingsSTLJ@gmail.com or call 415.565.4676.  Please specify whether you will be joining us for lunch. 

More information, including details about the panel topics and names and biographies of the speakers, will be available at www.uchastings.edu/tobacco.



PANEL SPEAKERS

Federal, State, and Local Government Collaboration:

Dorie Apollonio, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, UCSF

Dennis Eckhart, Senior Assistant Attorney General, State of California

Jeanne Finberg, Deputy Attorney General, State of California

Caroline Joyce, Director, Government Affairs, American Legacy Foundation

Leslie Zellers, Legal Director, Technical Assistance Legal Center

Moderator:       Richard Barnes, Researcher, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UCSF; Adjunct Assistant   Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law

Advertising, Marketing, Sale, and Distribution of Tobacco Products:

Stacey Anderson, Honorary Lecturer in Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham (England)

Ashutosh Bhagwat, Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law

Pamela Ling, Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Medicine, UCSF

Calvin Massey, Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law

Moderator:       David L. Faigman, John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law

Smoking Cessation and Tobacco Addiction:

Neal Benowitz, Professor of Medicine, Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Psychiatry and Clinical Pharmacy; Leader, Tobacco Control Group, Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF

Sharon Hall, Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, UCSF

Lisa Kroon, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, UCSF

Steven A. Schroeder, Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, and Director, Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, UCSF

Moderator:       Jaime King, Associate Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law

Prevention of Tobacco Use:

Phillip Gardiner, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Administrator, Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, UC Office of the President

Vera Harrell, Research Assistant, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, UCSF

Paul Keye, President, Paul Keye & Partners, Culver City, CA

Moderator:       Daniel Dohan, Associate Professor, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, UCSF