Talks

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 stage. This talk will draw lessons from Ebola for conducting clinical...

Biobanking is becoming an increasingly important component of genomic and medical research. President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative ― which proposes the collection of genetic and clinical data for upwards of 1 million Americans ― is just one example of this trend in medical science.  Because biobanks depend upon donations from a willing public,...

Clinical trial recruitment is in crisis. The public typically encounters clinical trial information in controversies or study-specific recruitment ads, which limits full understanding. To help address the national clinical trial recruitment crisis, researchers at UNC-CH used the social marketing approach to develop an evidence-based, online clinical research website and registry...

Visiting Ethics Scholar, John Lantos, MD, Director of Pediatric Bioethics, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Philip Rosoff, MD, Director Clinical Ethics Program, Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine, Duke University.

Susan E. Lederer is the Robert Turell Professor of the History of Medicine and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she is the chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics. A historian of American medicine, she has written extensively on the...

Robert Turell Professor of History of Medicine and Bioethics, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. UNC-Duke Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor, Spring 2016. More information about the Bullitt History of Medicine Club

Dr. Katie Reeder-Hayes and Dr. Claire Dees, UNC Division of Oncology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Dr. Kevin P. Weinfurt is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke Clinical Research Institute.

Most courses and texts on the responsible conduct of research imply that the professional ethical norms they teach also facilitate the best science. But we love rule—breakers, rebels, and “disruptive” innovators in science. What is the relation between the ethical values behind concern s over scientific misconduct and the intellectual...