Panel on legal issues in genetic testing.

DR. MICHAEL K1TA: Our second panel this morning is on legal issues in genetic testing. Our first speaker is Professor Bartha Knoppers. Dr. Knoppers received her Doctorate from the Sorbonne in Comparative Medical Law and has pursued three main interests: bioethics, genetics, and reproductive technology. She is currently professing to the law faculty of the University de Montreal, but in her spare time she is President of the Canadian Society of Bioethics, Vice President of the National Council of Bioethics in Human Research, a member of the Canadian Genome Analysis and Technology Programs Central Committee, Royal Commissioner on Reproductive Technologies, a member of the Hugo International Ethics Committee, and member of the LT Subcommittees of the NIH and the DOE. She has also been a voluntary participant in two genetic experiments, and her children have convinced her of two things: the truly random assortment of genes, and the impossibility of informed consent. It is my pleasure to introduce our first panelist, Dr. Bartha Knoppers.