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About the Conference
This valuable, one-day conference is designed to provide members of the research community with the skills and knowledge necessary to remain current in the field. Researchers, including physicians, research nurse coordinators, IRB members, and research administrators will be able to fill gaps in knowledge and understanding that will enhance their research practice.
Members of the research community are invited to attend a conference that will provide a forum for discussion, learning, and deeper understanding of the theoretical underpinnings, and practical issues as they relate to effective ethical research practice in the Harlem community.
Our eclectic faculty is comprised of colleagues from many academic and medical institutions including Harlem Hospital Center, Health and Hospitals Corporation, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, the New York Academy of Medicine, and Columbia University Medical Center. Lectures, panel discussions, and in-depth workshops will promote a comprehensive exploration of ideas, current regulations, and critical issues.
Informative Topics Designed to Improve Your Competencies for Practice
The day's activities include a keynote address, panel presentations, and workshops, all on topics crucial to researchers. The morning session features two panels: Perspectives on Privacy and Confidentiality and Conflicts of Interest and Their Impact on Research. Distinguished faculty in these two areas offer six presentations providing critical information including Privacy Interests with Diverse Populations, Practical Realities of HIPAA, Genetic Privacy, Conflicts of Interest Involving Researchers and Sponsors, IRBs, and Institutions.
A luncheon will include a dynamic keynote address, Respect for the Community, offered by highly regarded Byllye Y. Avery. Ms. Avery is a clinical professor at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Medical Center. She founded the National Black Women's Health Project and the Avery Institute for Social Change and is co-founder of the Gainsville Women's Health Center and Birthplace. She has been a women's health care activist for over 25 years and has received numerous awards including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for Social Contribution. Additional information on Byllye Avery is available on the Columbia University Center for Bioethics web site.
The afternoon session will feature the third panel entitled Inner-City Populations and Communities of Color. Expert speakers will present their perspectives on Research with Children, the Mentally Ill, Persons Living with HIV/AIDS, and Research with Communities of Color.
A series of six didactic workshops will be held in both the morning and in the afternoon. These interactive workshops will be facilitated by respected leaders in their areas of expertise. Workshop participants will examine the latest and critical aspects of privacy in research such as the application of HIPAA to the work place, informed consent, and genetic privacy. Other workshops will study conflicts of interest as they pertain to the individual researcher, the institution, and the IRB member. Investigators who encounter challenges in effectively communicating information on consent forms for a diverse research population will find it useful to participate in the workshop that addresses the issues of recruitment and retention in the inner-city.
We hope that you will join colleagues at Harlem Hospital Center and immerse yourself in what will prove to be a unique learning opportunity filled with information and new ideas that will help guide your research practice with more precision, forethought, and decisiveness.
Physicians participating in this educational conference will receive Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit. All registrants will receive extensive educational and reference materials. A continental breakfast will be served in addition to the luncheon. Snacks and refreshment will be available during breaks.
Panel Presentations on Critical Topics
Panel I-Perspectives on Privacy and Confidentiality
Lawrence Amsel, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical
Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute presents Genetic
Privacy.
Jeffrey Davis, Esq., LLM, Associate Vice President
for HIPAA Compliance, Columbia University Medical Center presents Practical
Realities of HIPAA.
Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, Professor of Clinical
Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons and Professor of Public
Health, Mailman School of Public Health presents Privacy Interests
with Diverse Populations.
Panel II- Conflicts of Interest and Their Impact on Research
Ngina Lythcott, DrPH, Vice Dean and Dean of Students,
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Medical Center
presents Conflicts of Interest Involving Institutions.
David J. Rothman, PhD, Director, Center for the Study
of Society and Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center presents
Conflicts of Interest Involving Individual Researchers.
David H. Strauss, MD, Chair, Institutional Review Board
(IRB), New York State Psychiatric Institute presents Conflicts of
Interest Involving IRBs.
Panel III- Inner-City Populations and Communities of Color
Pamela Y. Collins, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical
Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute presents Research
with the Mentally Ill.
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, Professor of Clinical Medicine,
Harlem Hospital Center presents Research with Persons Living with
HIV/AIDS.
Alan R. Fleischman, MD, Senior Vice President, New
York Academy of Medicine presents Research with Children.
Velvie A. Pogue, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical
Medicine, Harlem Hospital Center presents Research in Communities
of Color.
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