VdA and University of Madeira organize joint conference

The University of Madeira and Vieira de Almeida & Associados (VdA) are organizing a joint conference on Medical Responsibility. The event will be taking place at the Rectory of the University of Madeira on the 9 July, between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. and will be counting with the presence of the Regional Secretary for Social Issues, Francisco Jardim Ramos as well as with lectures from Paulo Pinheiro, VdA's partner in charge of the Health practice, Inês Santos Pinto, managing associate responsible for VdA's Madeira office and also Vera Lúcia Raposo, consulting associate from VdA's Health practice who also lectures at the University of Coimbra Faculty of Law.

Medical responsibility is an ever more pertinent issue at a time when the number of court sentences on medical responsibility has increased considerably alongside the growing number of litigation proceedings and also the toughening of the judges assessment regarding medical conduct.