FOREsight June Event:

NEW! Live Educational Event with Harold Y. Vanderpool, PhD, ThM
Should Subjects Be Paid to Participate in Research?

• June 12, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
  Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, 10 South Special Functions Dining Room

• June 13, 9:00 – 10: 00 am
  Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Olson Auditorium

• June 13, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
  Advocate Christ Medical Center, Auditorium

This is a unique opportunity to attend a live event where you will learn new research ethics information from a nationally recognized expert! To learn more...

As a professional whose activities contribute to Advocate’s research program, you are invited to take advantage of a new program entitled “FOREsight” (Fundamentals of Research Ethics), funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

FOREsight participants will receive:

• 11 monthly newsletters
• A booklet summarizing:
  • Ethical principles, for conducting human subject research
  • Laws and guidelines governing research activities
  • IRB policies and procedures
  • Investigator and institutional responsibilities
  • Answers to frequently asked questions about such topics as retrospective chart review, HIPAA regulations in research, conducting anonymous research, and distinguishing research from quality assessment/improvement initiatives
• Invitations to attend quarterly live educational events featuring nationally known experts in human subject research
• Access to an internet site linking you to Advocate’s Institutional Review Board
• Additional resources in research ethics
• The ability to obtain CME or nursing CEU credits, or a certificate of program completion

FOREsight program topics include:

• Key events in history that shaped contemporary human subject research
• Understanding what constitutes research that must be reviewed by an Institutional Review Board (IRB)
• The role and function of IRBs
• Substance and process of informed consent
• Documenting informed consent for tissue banking, survey research, and chart reviews
• Identifying and protecting vulnerable subjects (children, students, employees, minorities, the terminally ill, the economically disadvantaged, and others)
• Special considerations in pediatric research
• Investigator responsibilities for protecting human subjects and directing activities of research team
• Identifying, reporting, and minimizing conflicts of interest
• Preventing research misconduct (such as plagiarism, falsification, and fabrication)
• The ethics of using placebos in research
• Using central IRBs instead of institutional IRBs
• Ethical issues in recruiting, advertising, and subject compensation