UIC News Tips-RESEARCH ETHICS CONFERENCE

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October 7 , 1999

Contact: Amanda Mazur (312) 996-7681, amazur@uic.edu

UIC HOSTS RESEARCH ETHICS CONFERENCE

WHAT:	Research Ethics: Confronting Challenges in the Next Millennium, presented by the UIC Medical Humanities Program in the Department of Medical Education (DME) with a grant from the National Institutes of Health
WHEN:	Friday, Oct. 15, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
WHERE:	Chicago Illini Union, 2nd floor, 828 S. Wolcott Ave.
DETAILS:	The conference will examine current issues in research ethics. Government officials, policy makers, scientists, bioethicists, and physicians will offer perspectives on current controversies in research ethics. Topics include ethical considerations in multinational clinical vaccine trials, public policy on the protection of human research subjects, future directions in contemporary research, and policies governing biomedical research. There will be breakout sessions covering a variety of areas including faculty responsibilities and students rights, dilemmas in defining research risks, whether subjects of medical research should ever be exposed to risk greater than the risks of everyday life, and vulnerable subjects in the workplace.

A detailed conference program can be found at www.researchethics.org

Topic presenters, conference faculty and moderators include:

Robert Cook-Deegan, Ph.D., Director, National Cancer Policy Board, Institute of Medicine and Commission on Life Sciences, National Academy of Sciences

Raanan Gillon, M.B., Professor, Medical Ethics, Imperial College School of Medicine, London University

Eric A. Gislason, Ph.D., Interim Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois at Chicago

Christine Grady, Ph.D., Head, Section on Human Subjects Research, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health

Eric T. Juengst, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Sydney Halpern, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago

Jeffrey P. Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota School of Medicine

Loretta M. Kopelman, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Humanities, East Carolina University School of Medicine

Robert J. Levine, M.D., Professor, Human Investigation Committee, Yale University School of Medicine

Timothy F. Murphy, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Head, Medical Humanities Program, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago

Dorothy Nelkin, Ph.D., University Professor, Department of Sociology and School of Law, New York University

Kenneth D. Pimple, Ph.D., Research Associate, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University

Susan L. Rose, Ph.D., Human Subjects Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy

Leslie J. Sandlow, M.D., Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education; Head of the Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.

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