The Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

and the

Columbia University Center for Bioethics

present

Tia Powell, M.D.

Director

New York State Task Force on Life and the Law

Dr. Powell will discuss the 2005 report of the Task Force

Dietary Supplements:

Balancing Consumer Choice and Safety

April 20, 2006

12:30pm - 2pm

Location: Hammer Health Sciences Center (HHSC)

Room 301, 701 W. 168th Street, 3rd fl. * (see below for directions)

Discussants: I. Scott Bass, Esq., is a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, and heads their

Food and Drug Law Practice

Fredi Kronenberg, Ph.D., is Director, Rosenthal Center for CAM, and Professor of Clinical Physiology,

Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons

Robert (Red) Schiller, M.D., is Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at Beth Israel

Medical Center, NYC

(see below for speaker brief bios)

Copies of the NYS Task Force Report can be obtained at http://www.health.state.ny.us/regulations/task_force/docs/dietary_supplement_safety.pdf
 
Columbia University Center for Bioethics
http://www.bioethicscolumbia.org/
 

*Directions to HHSC, Room 301, 701 W. 168th St.,@ NW Corner West 168th St. & Ft. Washington Ave., 1 long block west of B’way (W. 168th St. becomes Haven Ave. west of Ft. Washington Ave.). For a map (HHSC is #4 on map) go to http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/about/map.html. Parking garage at W. 165^th St. & Ft. Washington Ave.

Tia Powell, M.D.: Brief Biography, Recent Publications

Tia Powell, M.D. is Executive Director, New York State Task Force on Life & the Law, since January 2004. This Task Force facilitates consensus; and produces reports and policy recommendations on complex issues in bioethics.

Dr. Powell is also involved in directing health policy and legal staff in research and drafting recommendations for New York State health law, regulation and policy. She is a specialist in ethics consultation, mental health, decisional capacity, end-of-life care, and health ethics policy. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College, Harvard University; Yale Medical School; and did her psychiatric internship, residency and a fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry all at Columbia University, College of P&S, and the NYS Psychiatric Institute. She has appeared on the Charlie Rose Show and the Lehrer News Hour, among others, discussing psychiatry and ethics.

Powell, T and Blustein J. The Nature and Function of Ethics Committees, in Handbook for Healthcare 
 Ethics Committees, eds. L.F. Post, J. Blustein, N. Dubler. Johns Hopkins University Press, in press.
 

Powell, T. Review of Institute of Medicine’s “Dietary Supplements: A Framework for Evaluating Safety.”

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. Winter, 2005.

Workgroup on Expanded Criteria Organs for Liver Transplantation. A Report to New York State Transplant
Council and New York State Department of Health. Liver Transplantation, vol 11, no.10 (October), 2005; 1184-1192.
 

New York State Task Force on Life & the Law. (Staff/Editor), Dietary Supplements: Balancing Consumer Choice and

Safety. New York State Department of Health, 2005.

 
Powell, T. Review of Institute of Medicine’s “Dietary Supplements: A Framework for Evaluating Safety.” Journal of Law, 
 Medicine and Ethics. Winter, 2005.
 
Powell, T. Evolving Ethical Challenges in Managed Mental Health Care, in Rationing Sanity: The Ethics of Managed
 Mental Health Care, ed. James Nelson, Georgetown University Press, 2003.
 
Sloan R, Bagiella E, Powell T. Without a Prayer: Methodological Problems, Ethical Challenges, and
Misrepresentations in the Study of Religion, Spirituality and Medicine, in: T Plante (Ed.) Faith and Health, Guilford Publications, 2001.
 
Presentations on regulating dietary supplements
 

“Dietary Supplements: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You,” Keynote speaker, New York Citizens’

Commission on Health Care Decisions, Annual Reception, June, 2005.

“Ethical Challenges in the Regulation of Dietary Supplements,” Grand Rounds, Lenox Hill Hospital,
 April, 2005.
 

“Dietary Supplements,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, New York University Medical

School, March, 2005.

“Dietary Supplements: Balancing Public Health and Consumer Choice,” David Rogers Health

Policy Colloquium, Weill Cornell Medical Center, February, 2005.

Discussants: Brief Biographies
 
 
I. Scott Bass, Esq.
 

I. Scott Bass is a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, and heads their Food and Drug Law Practice.

Mr. Bass divides his time between pharmaceutical and functional food/dietary supplement matters. He is recognized in the US and

abroad as a leading authority on FDA enforcement practices. He has served as lead counsel in FDA criminal investigations involving off-label promotion, PDMA and GMP issues, in health care fraud and abuse audits and investigations, DEA proceedings, and in FTC enforcement matters. He served as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Public Policy, serves as Co-Chair of the ABA Food and Drug Law Committee, and was Chairman of the N.Y. State Bar Association Section on Food, Drug and Cosmetic Law. Mr. Bass co-authored the books Marketing Dietary Supplements (FDLI 2000) and The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act: A Legislative History and Analysis (FDLI 1996), and had a major role in the drafting of that statute. He wrote the "Enforcement Powers of FDA" chapters in the FDLI Fundamentals of Law treatises, and has published many articles in the pharmaceutical and functional foods fields. Mr. Bass holds a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. from University College, New York University.

 
 
Fredi Kronenberg, Ph.D.
 

Fredi Kronenberg, Ph.D. is Professor of Clinical Physiology and Director of the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is also Director of the NIH-funded Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research in Aging and Women's Health. The Center has a broad agenda in women’s health, and a focus on Traditional systems of medicine from around the world, especially on botanical medicine. Dr. Kronenberg received her B.S. degree from Cornell University in neurobiology and behavior, and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in physiology, where she researched thermoregulatory and reproductive physiology. Her expertise is in women’s health and her research focus has been in menopause. Her current research includes an FDA-approved clinical trial on the effect of the herb, black cohosh, on menopausal symptoms, and a study of the effect of diets rich in foods containing phytoestrogens (e.g., soy and flaxseed) on maintaining health in menopausal women. Dr. Kronenberg is co-director of three Continuing Medical Education courses offered annually at Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons: ‘Integrative Pain Medicine’ (with Dr. James Dillard), ‘Nutrition and Health’ and ‘Botanical Medicine in Modern Clinical Practice’ (with Dr. Andrew Weil). Dr. Kronenberg is the recipient of many honors and awards.

Robert (Red) Schiller, M.D.

Robert (Red) Schiller, M.D. joined the staff of the Institute for Urban Family Health in 1987 as the Medical Director of the Sidney Hillman Health Center. In 1993, he was named the Chairman of the new Department of Family Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center. He is responsible for the clinical direction and overall management of the department, the residency program, and the family practice program at Beth Israel. He is a graduate of the New York University School of Medicine and Dartmouth College; he completed his residency in family medicine, as well as a one-year fellowship in family medicine, at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Dr. Schiller has developed innovative models for enhancing cultural sensitivity and psycho-social awareness in family medicine training programs. In addition, he has been practicing a variety of alternative and complementary therapies for over 15 years and has created training programs for medical students and residents in many of these therapies. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Practice, has a New York State Certification in Acupuncture, and has received extensive training in homeopathy and herbs.