Panel: Failures of Informed Consent

Panel moderated by Frances Lawrenz, PhD, Wallace Professor of Teaching & Learning, Dept. of Educational Psychology; Associate Vice President for Research, University of Minnesota

• Sarah Gehlert, PhD, E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, George Warren Brown School of Social Work; Professor, Dept. of Surgery, School of Medicine; Co-Director, Center for Community Health and Partnerships, Institute for Public Health; Director, Center for Community Engaged Research, Institutes for Clinical and Translational Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
• Eric Kodish, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics at the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; Pediatric Hematologist, Cleveland Clinic
• Richard R. Sharp, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Ethics; Professor of Medicine; Director, Biomedical Ethics Program, Center for Individualized Medicine Bioethics Program, Clinical and Translational Research Ethics Program, Mayo Clinic
• Barbara Koenig, PhD, RN, Professor, Institute for Health and Aging, School of Nursing; Director, Bioethics Program, University of California, San Francisco

During the Q&A, panelists were joined by plenary speakers Prof. Capron and Prof. Burke

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.