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REGR: Handling research animal ethics: Interactions between science and welfare

April 16, 2015

Talk 2015 April 16 @ 12pm – 1pm. Research Ethics Grand Rounds. Nicole Nelson, PhD, MA, Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Research animal welfare is organized around a distinction between the care of animals and their use in experiments. Nicole Nelson draws on ethnographic fieldwork in a behavioral neuroscience laboratory to … Read more

Merrimon Lecture: Seven Assumptions that Drive Too Much Health Care

March 5, 2015

Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Practice. Lecture 2015 March 5 @ 12pm – 1pm. Bondurant Hall G100, UNC School of Medicine. Free and open to the public Co-sponsored by: UNC Center for Bioethics School of Medicine Merrimon Lectureship Center for Excellence in Clinical Preventive Services Center UNC … Read more

REGR: The Ethics of Clinical Research During an Epidemic: Lessons from Ebola

February 19, 2015

Talk 2015 February 19 @ 12pm – 1pm. Research Ethics Grand Rounds. Annette Rid, King’s College. The 2014 Ebola epidemic in west Africa is the most severe and largest documented to date. It is also the first epidemic in which the use of experimental vaccines and specific treatments for Ebola was endorsed at an early … Read more

CEGR: Involving Children in Important Medical Decisions

February 5, 2015

Talk 2015 February 5. Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds. Steven Joffe, UPenn. Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds is pleased to collaborate with the Department of Pediatrics to host a two-day visit with Dr. Joffe. In this Grand Rounds Dr. Joffe describes the development of children’s capacity to offer voluntary informed consent and assent. He also discusses the … Read more

Published in JLME: The fiduciary relationship model for managing clinical genomic “incidental” findings

January 6, 2015

Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 42 (4): 576-89. This paper examines how the application of legal fiduciary principles (e.g., physicians’ duty of loyalty and care, duty to inform, and duty act within the scope of authority), can serve as a framework to promote management of clinical genomic “incidental” or secondary target findings … Read more