New visitor at CeBIL - Audrey Desquesnes

Audrey Dequesnes is a PhD candidate in law at the University of Lille (France). Her primary field of interest is pharmaceutical science, which she studied at the University of Clermont Auvergne, before specializing with a MD in European and international regulatory affairs of health products, in Lille. Due to her interest in biomedical technologies, she completed her PharmD thesis on the regulation of nanotechnologies and their biomedical applications. Still with a view to linking health products regulation and innovative digital technologies, she got two university qualifications, one in “personal data protection and privacy law”, and in “artificial intelligence in healthcare”, and then started a PhD in 2020 on French and European Union liability law of health products using artificial intelligence. This issue combines those of health product law, defective products, but also data protection, professional confidentiality, and cybersecurity.

To stay connected to the clinical field, Audrey collaborates with pharmacists at the Lille University Hospital in the legal aspects of the use of clinical decision support systems, and with the team of Pr. Zoheir Sabeur, Professor of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Bournemouth University, who is working on a device to monitor COPD patients at home and detect exacerbation. At the University, Audrey teaches the "digital health law" course to law master students, and an introduction to multimedia law to bachelor students in web design. She is involved in two European Union funded projects, mostly in a H2020 project on cybersecurity and the extraction of encrypted evidence from smartphones by law enforcement, and an ERASMUS+ project on biolaw of emerging digital technologies.