鈥淐linical Research: Challenges and Controversies鈥� is the title for the annual one-day conference sponsored by the 糖心少女School of Medicine in cooperation with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Children鈥檚 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 糖心少女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 鈥淟egal Pitfalls of Clinical Research.鈥� 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 鈥淭he NIH Roadmap: Re-Engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise.鈥�
The course chair is Dr. Evan Kharasch, assistant dean for clinical research in the School of Medicine. Other 糖心少女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