Conference: The Future of Informed Consent – Welcome and Plenary (Alexander Capron)

• Welcome
Prof. Susan M. Wolf, JD, McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy; Faegre Baker Daniels Professor of Law; Professor of Medicine; Chair, Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, University of Minnesota

• Plenary: Where Did Informed Consent Come From?
Alexander Capron, LLB, University Professor, Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs; Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics, Professor of Law and Medicine, Keck School of Medicine; Co-director, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics.

This conference was part of a two-day event, Frontiers in Research Ethics, which consisted of three components:
• An all-day conference on March 8, 2017, The Future of Informed Consent in Research and Translational Medicine
• A half-day conference the morning of March 9, 2017, The Challenges of Informed Consent in Research with Children, Adolescents & Adults
• Trainings and workshops held the afternoon of March 9, 2017. These were not recorded.

It’s been more than 100 years since the landmark Schloendorff v. Society of New York Hospital decision, in which the court articulated a foundational concept of bioethics: “Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body.” This national conference brought together renowned speakers from a variety of disciplines who addressed how informed consent ethics and policy have developed over the past century, and what tools are needed to improve patient and research participant protections going forward. Discussion included recent changes to the Common Rule governing research, including changes on informed consent and broad consent.

Sponsored by the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences and Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota. Also supported in part by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) & National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health grant #1-R01-HG008605.