Strangers at the Benchside have: a reasonable amount of substantive knowledge in the field
in which investigators seeking consults are working; practical experience in applying moral …

Continuing failures of human subjects protection have prompted calls for increased
governmental regulation, additional oversight, more effective training for investigators in the …

Institutional ethics consultation services for biomedical scientists have begun to proliferate,
especially for clinical researchers. We discuss several models of ethics consultation and …

common notion about ethics evaluation. One of the challenges that discussions of ethics
face is that of overcoming the assumption, integral to the modern conceptualization of the …

Interesting and important ethical questions confront researchers, regulators, institutional
review boards, support personnel, and research participants committed to the ethical …

The increasing complexity of human subjects research and its oversight has prompted
researchers, as well as institutional review boards (IRBs), to have a forum in which to …

Clinical research ethics consultation has emerged in the last 15 years as a service to those
involved in the conduct of clinical research who face challenging issues for which more than …

The recent emergence of research ethics consultation services across the country is a
welcome phenomenon. Transformations in the practice of clinical research are proliferating …

BACKGROUND The RECS at JHSPH started in March 2005. As background, The Johns
Hopkins University received funds as part of an Office for Human Research …

The open peer commentaries on “The Emergence of Clinical Research Ethics Consultation:
Insights From a National Collaborative” highlight the many ways in which the practice of …