From left, Greater New York Hospital Association senior vice president and general counsel Laura M. Alfredo, Weill-Cornell Medical College Division of Medical Ethics chief Joseph J. Fins, and former counsel to the New York City Mayor’s Office Kapil Longani, speaking during the 2022 NYSBA Annual Meeting – Health Law panel on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. Images via NYSBA video
One of the first sessions of the New York State Bar Association’s 2022 Annual Meeting focused, fittingly, on the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Health Law Section inviting two attorneys and a doctor to discuss ethical issues raised by the pandemic.
Laura M. Alfredo, senior vice president and general counsel of the Greater New York Hospital Association, moderated the discussion Tuesday morning. She asked Weill-Cornell Medical College Division of Medical Ethics chief Joseph J. Fins and Kapil Longani, who was counsel to the mayor during the later years of former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s leadership, about vaccine mandates and other issues.
