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DESCRIPTION:The 91ºÚÁÏÍø Research Group on Health and Law invite you to an in
 terdisciplinary panel with Professor Vardit Ravitsky\, Dr. Karen Buzaglo\,
  and Dr. Katie Hammond\, who will discuss the legal\, ethical and medical 
 debates surrounding social egg freezing from a Canadian viewpoint. The pan
 el will be chaired by Professor Alana Klein.\n\nThis event is eligible for
  inclusion as 1.5 hours of continuing legal education as reported by membe
 rs of the Barreau du Québec.\n\nVARDIT RAVITSKY is Associate Professor at 
 the Bioethics Program\, School of Public Health\, University of Montreal a
 nd Director of Ethics and Health at the Center for Research on Ethics. She
  is President of the International Association of Bioethics\, member of CI
 HR’s Standing Committee on Ethics and of the Advisory Board of CIHR’s Inst
 itute of Genetics. Her research focuses on the ethics of genomics and repr
 oduction and is funded by CIHR\, FRQSC\, SSHRC\, and Genome Canada. She pu
 blished over 140 articles and commentaries on bioethical issues.\n	\n	DR. KA
 REN BUZAGLO (MDCM 2004) graduated from 91ºÚÁÏÍø’s Faculty of Medi
 cine and pursued her residency at 91ºÚÁÏÍø in Obstetrics & Gynecology. She b
 ecame a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada i
 n 2011\, then completed a fellowship in Gynecologic Reproductive Endocrino
 logy and Infertility (GREI) at Université de Montréal with Royal College c
 ertification in 2013. Dr. Buzaglo is co-medical director of Procrea Fertil
 ité\, part of IntegraMed\, the largest network of fertility clinics in Nor
 th America. She is immediate past chair of the Fertility Preservation spec
 ial interest group of CFAS and vice-president of Fertile Future\, a non-pr
 ofit organization that offers financial assistance for fertility preservat
 ion for cancer patients. In 2019\, she launched Fertilité & Féminité\, loc
 ated at Clinique Medic Elle\, promoting active optimization of one’s repro
 ductive\, sexual and post-menopausal health providing the most advanced te
 chnologies in these areas. She is a passionate advocate for women taking c
 harge of their own health throughout their lives.\n	\n	KATIE HAMMOND (BCL/LL
 B 2019) is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Research Group on Health and Law
  in the Faculty of Law at 91ºÚÁÏÍø\, and a visiting scholar with 
 the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School. She completed her PhD in Soc
 iology with the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of
  Cambridge as a Commonwealth Trust scholar\, and an MPhil in Gender Studie
 s as a Gates Cambridge scholar.  Her work explores infertility and assiste
 d reproductive technologies\, and their resulting markets and regulation. 
 She has been involved with policy development in the area of reproduction 
 for organizations such as the World Health Organization\, where she was in
 volved with organizing\, and participated in the consultation for the WHO’
 s first ever glossary and guidelines on infertility. In particular\, she s
 pecializes in the areas of egg\, sperm and embryo donation\, surrogacy\, a
 nd egg freezing.\n
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LOCATION:NCDH 200\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
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SUMMARY:Egg Freezing: Freedom or Burden?
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