Challenging Subject of Research on Children to be Addressed at Downstate
Apr 25, 2008
Brooklyn, NY - SUNY Downstate Medial Center's Division of Humanities in Medicine will hold a conference on medical research on children -- "Ethical Dilemmas in Research Involving Children: 'Damned If You Do or Don't'" -- on Tuesday, April 29, 8:30 - 4:30 p.m., in the Alumni Auditorium, 395 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, New York.
Top figures in this field will be among the presenters, including Alan R. Fleischman, MD, senior vice president and medical director of the March of Dimes Foundation. Dr. Fleischman will provide an overview of ethical issues related to research involving children, and then lead a panel examining the history of such research, as well as parental consent and children’s consent or assent.
Scott T. Miller, MD, professor of clinical pediatrics at SUNY Downstate, will discuss what parents and children hear when research is discussed with them, and Dale A. Distant, MD, professor of clinical surgery and director of transplantation at Downstate, will cover research issues in organ transplantation.
Other topics to be discussed include federal regulations and genetic research.
For information contact Alice Herb, JD, LLM, assistant clinical professor of family medicine and associate at law, 718-270-2752 or alice.herb@downstate.edu.
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SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient’s bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, College of Nursing, School of Health Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and a multifaceted biotechnology initiative including the Downstate Biotechnology Incubator and BioBAT for early-stage and more mature companies, respectively.
SUNY Downstate ranks twelfth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.