April 8, 2004
Clinical research conference will cover new rules and informed consent
“Clinical Research: Challenges and Controversies” is the title for the annual one-day conference sponsored by the UW School of Medicine in cooperation with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center.
The conference, presented as a Continuing Medical Education program, will be Friday, April 30, in the HUB on campus. Registration is required and costs $95 for faculty or staff members and $65 for fellows. In previous years, the conference has been open to faculty and staff from the UW and its affiliates; this year, other participants may register.
The program will give an overview of regulations and requirements for conducting clinical research (medical research projects with human subjects) and will include recent national initiatives to improve research oversight.
One session will focus on Data and Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMBs) and another will point out “Legal Pitfalls of Clinical Research.” Several specific issues are also on the agenda, including achieving informed consent and consent issues with vulnerable populations.
Several guest faculty members will make presentations, including Dr. Anthony Hayward, director of the Division for Clinical Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health. Hayward will speak on “The NIH Roadmap: Re-Engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise.”
The course chair is Dr. Evan Kharasch, assistant dean for clinical research in the School of Medicine. Other UW faculty are Dr. Wylie Burke, chair of medical history and ethics; Helen McGough, director of the Human Subjects Division of Grant and Contract Services, and Dr. Ann Vander Stoep, assistant professor of psychiatry and epidemiology.
For a full schedule and registration form, go to the CME site at http://uwcme.org/site/courses
