CREATIVE ETHICAL PROBLEM SOLVING IN HUMAN RESEARCH:
Challenges and Solutions for Researchers and Ethics Committees
Conference - July 28, 2006, San Francisco Bay Area

What can be done with research ideas that seem ethically and scientifically sound but that are innovative and might not be compliant with regulations? A conference described at
http://www.csueastbay.edu/JERHRE/conference/index.html will answer that question. At the conference, unconventional new research practices that deserve to be tested, but that raise regulatory and ethical concerns in some quarters, will be examined by a panel of experts, including Dr. Bernard Schwetz, Director of the U.S. Office of Human Research Protection. Regulatory-compliant protocols for experimenting with those innovative research ideas be developed and publicized.

Be in time for early-bird rates. Deadline for submitting abstracts: April 15, 2006. FULL CASES due by May 15, 2006

CALL FOR CASE ABSTRACTS

Cases are descriptions, up to 500 words long, of a scientific and ethical problem you or others sought to solve, the barriers to such research, and any solutions attempted or considered. Cases will fall into two main categories: successful cases (innovative research ultimately approved by an IRB/RERB and carried out), and cases that were stymied for some reason in the planning stage. Both are encouraged. (See Examples of Case Topics.)

Abstracts of cases are preliminary submissions of up to 200 words in length due by April 15. Abstracts will be evaluated for appropriateness, and accepted abstracts are to be developed into full cases by May 15 . Related sets of cases will be allocated to panel members for their review prior to the conference.

Please submit case abstracts to joan.sieber@csueastbay.edu

Submission of Abstracts: Please submit your abstract in the illustrated in the following sample format, using the Online Abstract Template (doc).

Example of Abstract

Author: Mary Doe, University of Atlantis, mary.doe@uatlantis.edu, (510) 333-4444

Tentative Title: Interviewing Involuntarily Committed Mentally Ill Persons

Main issue(s) involved: vulnerability, privacy

Brief description of case: Care givers need to understand the experience of being committed to psychiatric care (involuntarily) by one's family, in order to best serve this population. Interviews conducted shortly after being admitted to psychiatric care, with follow up interviews until time of release, would provide useful insights into the experience and needs of this population; and there is some evidence that such interviews would have therapeutic value. Informal conversation with such patients has revealed that they would greatly welcome an opportunity to discuss their experience and feelings about being involuntarily committed. However, IRBs/RERBs opine that such interviews would unacceptably invade privacy and exacerbate negative feelings. An opportunity to conduct such interviews and assess subjects' responses to this experience in debriefing and follow up interviews would make it possible to evaluate this risk/benefit assessment.

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