Kayte Spector-Bagdady has a new commentary out in The Conversation about the law and ethics of research with human biospecimens. It focuses on the recently published revisions to the human subjects research regulations, highlights the debate that ensued from a draft version over its proposal to include nonidentified biospecimens in its definition of "human subject," and summarizes where the final rule landed and possible steps going forward.
Wendy Uhlmann, Scott Roberts, and Ray De Vries will serve as panelists on Monday, September 11th for FINDING COMMON GROUND: A Conversation on Genetics and Religion at the Ann Arbor Downtown Library.
More information can be found here.
Kayte Spector-Bagdady was recently quoted for The State Journal-Register article on the investigation of Southern Illinois University researcher, William Halford's genital herpes vaccine research.
Kayte Spector-Bagdady recently served on a Q&A panel for "Three Identical Strangers" at the State Theater. Professor Spector-Bagdady, a research ethicist, and Dr. Larry Perlman, a researcher involved in the original study, discussed the troubling research study at the heart of "Three Identical Strangers."
There will be a Q&A session with Lawrence Perlman and UM faculty members Dr. Michael Jibson and Professor Kayte Spector-Bagdady after the Jan. 15 screening of the new film, “The Twinning Reaction" at the Michigan Theater.
Patients fighting life-threatening illnesses who have run out of conventional options will get a chance to try some of the most cutting-edge treatments available, through a national effort that just received nearly $4.8 million in funding from the federal government.
Based at the University of Michigan, in partnership with Duke University, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the University of Rochester, the effort will build a national framework to help more patients gain access to experimental drugs, devices and biologics. It is funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health.
The partner universities will build a national framework for more efficient, consistent and widespread use of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Expanded Access process, to help more hospitals offer experimental options to their patients and gather data on the impact.
MICHR will coordinate the new project, called TEAMSS for Transforming Expanded Access to Maximize Support and Study.
CBSSM will be involved to help ensure that use of Expanded Access is done in an ethical and responsible way, so that patients who have exhausted all their other options understand the risks involved in trying an unproven therapy.
The US Public Health Service exposed more than 1,300 Guatemalans to syphilis, gonorrhea, and other sexually transmitted infections without consent in the late 1940s. Kayte Spector-Bagdady and Paul Lombardo worked on the 2011 US Presidential Bioethics Commission report condemning the Cold War experiments as “unconscionable,” which spurred calls for recompense of the victims, their descendants, and families. According to a new report by medical historians, human tissues from unethical experiments conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s might still rest on the shelves of US government labs.
Making decisions about the medical care of a loved-one with acute brain hemorrhage is a difficult and frightening time for families. This project will work to improve the processes that doctors and families use to make these decisions in the future. For more information, visit NIH Reporter.
PI(s): Darin Zahuranec, Brisa Sanchez
Co-I(s): Renee Anspach, Angela Fagerlin, Lewis Morgenstern, Phillip Rodgers
The overarching goal of this proposal is to improve decision making about organ quality in Liver Transplantation, specifically by increasing transparency, improving patient knowledge and satisfaction, and maintaining patient and public trust in the transplant system. In addition, this research may improve patient outcomes by ensuring that high risk organs go to patients who are most likely to benefit from them. For more information, visit NIH Reporter.
PI(s): Michael Volk
IHPI Seminar Series Featuring CBSSM Researchers Angie Fagerlin and Brian Zikmund-Fisher: "Numbers, numbers, numbers: It's not just what you present, but how you present them."
Angela Fagerlin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
Co-Director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine
Brian Zikmund-Fisher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health
Research Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
Monday, February 9, 2015
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
NCRC Building 10, Research Auditorium
