Keynote speaker:

Judge Christian Byk
Court of Appeal, Paris and Secretary-General, International Association of Law, Ethics and Science

Speaking on: Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis: An Ambiguous Legal Status For An Ambiguous Medical And Social Practice.

Christian Byk is judge at the Court of Appeal in Paris and Deputy Chief Justice at the Paris North Superior Court. Amongst Byk’s past appointments, he was senior legal counsel at the International Law Office, Department of Justice; governmental expert for industrial property, biolaw, privacy law, international private law, biotechnology, nuclear energy, diplomatic law at the Council of Europe, WIPO, Nuclear Energy International Agency, WHO, U.N. Human Rights sector, European Union and UNESCO; special adviser for Bioethics to the Secretary General, Council of Europe, where he drafted the European Convention on Biomedicine and Human Rights, created the European Conference of National Ethics Committees and set up a bioethics and health programme for Eastern and Central European countries.

An associate researcher in different European Union Projects on Bioethics and Biotechnology, Byk is also a consulting expert for the Council of Europe, the European Union and WHO.

*Other speakers include: *

Professor John Wyatt
Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University College London

Professor John Wyatt has a long-standing interest in ethical dilemmas in medicine and the philosophical, religious and legal context of medical ethics. A respected writer, Wyatt is an author of several books and articles including Matters of Life and Death and Selective head cooling with mild systemic hypothermia after neonatal encephalopathy: multicentre randomised trial, (The Lancet, Volume 365, Issue 9460, Pages 663-670).

Dr. Chris O’Toole
Head of Research Regulation, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

The discussion will be chaired by Professor Nigel M de S Cameron, Chairman of BioCentre: Centre for Bioethics & Public Policy.