Talks

Dr. Resnik has an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and J.D. from Concord University School of Law. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Davidson College. Dr. Resnik was an Associate and Full Professor of Medical Humanities at the Brody School...

This event is co-sponsored by the Parr Center for Ethics and the UNC Center for Bioethics. For more information, see the Parr Center Events: CRISPR: The History, Science and Ethics of Genetic Modification.

Can research subjects be “wronged” even if not physically injured in a clinical trial? Thorny questions of how to account for such intangible harm currently challenge the courts, regulatory agencies, and IRBs. This presentation will consider the legal, ethical, and policy implications of noteworthy cases involving intangible harm, including alleged...

Compensating research participants has been the subject of national debate for some time. In this presentation, I will review the four most common approaches to paying research participants and critically evaluate the impact of these schemes with relation to the risk:benefit ratio in research. I will also present the growing...

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...