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$5K – $10K Translational Research Ethics Grant Program. The Translational Research Ethics Grant Program was established to foster ethics-focused research on clinical and translational research practices. Proposals involving qualitative and/or quantitative approaches are welcome. Applicants may request up to $10,000 for one year. More info and application instructions »

Talk 2015 April 9 @ 12pm. Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds. Larry R. Churchill, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Ann Geddes Stahlman Chair in Medical Ethics, Vanderbilt University. What skills and traits do the best clinicians use to create healing relationships with patients? How do clinicians become “healers,” that is, effective in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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