Research Ethics Lecture Series

2022-23

Spring 2023

• March16: "Please Vaccinate my Kid Against COVID-19! Unapproved Pharmaceutical Products, Children, and Public Health Emergencies" by Doug Diekema, MD, MPH, Director of Education at Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children’s Hospital; Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine
• April 20: "March-in Rights, Drug Pricing and Ethical Intellectual Property Practices" by Ian McClure, JD, LLM, Associate Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Impact 
• May 18: " Medical Ethics Research Symposium: New Ethics Research from our 2023 COM Graduates" by Aaron Adams, MD, Class of 2023, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Richard Burd, MD, Class of 2023, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Mark Sirianno, MD, Class of 2023, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and Jeremiah Wayne, MD, Class of 2023, University of Kentucky College of Medicine 

Fall 2022

• September 15: "Research Ethics Challenges with Monkeypox: Accurate Information, Research Priorities, and Vaccines" by Ilhem Messaoudi, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, University of Kentucky, Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecule Genetics

• October 20: "Research Ethics Dilemmas in Cancer Genomics" by Jill Kolesar, PharmD, MS, University Research Professor, Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine, Co-Leader, Translational Oncology Research Program, Markey Cancer Center 

• December 1: "Legacy of Tuskegee: Ongoing Challenges and Emerging Opportunities" by Patrick Smith, Ph.D., Director of Bioethics Program, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and the History of Medicine; Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine; and Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University

2021-22

Spring 2022

• March 17: "Neuroethics of Cognitive Emulation and Enhancement" by Dan Y. Han, PsyD, CELM, FANA, Chief, Division of Neuropsychology

  Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery,and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Kentucky Neuroscience Institute University of Kentucky College of Medicine

• April 21: "Medical Research, Clinical Trials, and the Prison System" by Caroline Buchanan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Program for Bioethics, Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
• May 19: "60 Years of Thalidomide Use: An Ethical Regulatory Success Story" by M. Sara Rosenthal, PhD, HEC-C and Kenneth B. Ain, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, Thyroid Oncology Program, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Room; and M. Sara Rosenthal, Ph.D., Professor and Founding Director, Program for Bioethics, University of Kentucky

Fall 2021

• September 16: "Overcoming Pediatric Ethical Challenges in COVID Vaccine Trials: The KidCOVE Trial" by George J. Fuchs, III, MD, Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Department of Pediatrics; Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Kentucky College of Medicine; Senior Ambulatory Medical Director for Pediatrics, UK HealthCare/Kentucky Children's Hospital; Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky College of Public Health  
• October 21: "Using Historical Archives in Research Ethics Training: UK's Special Collections Research Center" by Julia R.S. Bursten, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky and Matthew Strandmark, Education Archivist, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center
• November 18: "It Works! Now What? 100 Years of Insulin - and a Century of Ethical Issues" by Christopher J. Rutty, Ph.D., Professional Medical and Public Health Historian; Adjunct Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

2020-21

Spring 2021

• February 18: "Arms Control: Research Ethics and the University of Kentucky COVID Vaccine Trial" by Richard N. Greenberg, MD, Professor of Medicine, The Belinda Mason Carden and Paul Mason Professor of HIV/AIDS Research and Education, University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
• March 18: "Research Ethics and the Development of COVID Therapeutics: Painful Lessons to Learn" by Alex John London, PhD, Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy; Director, Center for Ethics and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University.
• April 15: "Ethical Environments ≠ Bullying and Harassment" by Hollie Swanson, PhD, Professor, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences.

Fall 2020

• September 17: "Ethical Issues with Clinical Trials and COVID-19" by M. Sara Rosenthal, PhD, Professor and Founding Director, UK Program for Bioethics; Chair Hospital Ethics Committee.
• October 15: "Letters from a Research Subject: Robert Straus's Escape from Custody" by Claire D. Clark, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
• November 19: "Labor Inducing Pharmaceuticals and the Nature of Childbirth: Research Ethics Questions" by Naomi Rendina, PhD, Lecturer, California State University, East Bay.

2019-20

Spring 2020

• February 20: "Ebola Clinic Research: A Precedent for Research Ethics in a Time of Crisis" by Derek Forster, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, UK College of Medicine; Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship, UK HealthCare.
• March and April events in 2020 were cancelled due to COVID-19.

Fall 2019

• September 19: Co-Sponsored by the Markey Cancer Center Oncology Ethics Program "Unethical Clinical Trials and Practices in Thyroid Cancer" by M. Sara Rosenthal, PhD, Professor and Founding Director, UK Program for Bioethics; Chair, Hospital Ethics Committee.
• October 17: "Dementia Research with Older People: New Ethical Questions" by Yang Jiang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Science, UK College of Medicine; Faculty Associate of Sanders-Brown Center on Aging.
• November 21: "What Is Good Science?: When Productivity Puts Ethics in Jeopardy" by Caroline Buchanan, PhD, HEC-C, Assistant Professor and Clinical Ethicist, UK Program for Bioethics.

2018-19

Spring 2019

• February 21: "'Right to Try' Is not a Right to Try: Myths, Clarifications, and What It Means for Researchers" by Rebecca B. Yarrison, PhD, Associate Professor, UK Program for Bioethics, Departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Nursing and Philosophy.
• March 21: "Civilian-Military Collaboration: Ethical Considerations in Research" by Sheena Eagan, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University.
• April 18: "Uncovering the Problem of 'Lung Cancer Stigma': Research Methodologies and Ethical Implications" by Jamie Studts, PhD, Professor, Department of Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky College of Medicine; Director, Behavioral & Community-Based Research SRF, University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center.

Fall 2018

• September 20: "Happy 40th, Louise Brown! 40 Years of IVF: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications" by M. Sara Rosenthal, PhD, Professor and Founding Director, UK Program for Bioethics; Chair, Hospital Ethics Committee.
• October 25: "The Belmont Report at 40: Origins, Myths and Legacy" by Claire D. Clark, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science, UK College of Medicine.
• November 15: "From Frankenstein's Monster to Current Human Enhancement Technology: How Do We Ensure Ethical Use of our Technology?" by Caroline A. Buchanan, PhD, Instructor, UK Program for Bioethics.

2017-2018

Spring 2018

• February 15: "Lab Values: Professional Ethics in the Laboratory" by Caroline A. Buchanan, PhD, Instructor, UK Program for Bioethics.
• March 15: "Ethics in New Drug Pricing: The Case of Nusinersen for Spinal Muscular Atrophy" by Stephen J. Ryan, MD, Professor of Neurology, Neuromuscular Medicine Program, Kentucky Neuroscience Institute and Rebecca B. Yarrison, Associate Professor, UK Program for Bioethics, Departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Nursing and Philosophy.
• April 19: "Rights for Non-Humans: From Animals to Robots" by James J. Hughes, PhD, Associate Provost, University of Massachusetts Boston; Executive Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

Fall 2017

• September 21: "The 40th Anniversary of the National Commission's Research Involving Children (September 6, 1977)" by M. Sara Rosenthal, PhD, Professor and Founding Director, UK Program for Bioethics; Chair, Hospital Ethics Committee.
• October 19: "The Ethics of Placebo-controlled Trials" by Kristy Deep, MD, MA, FACP, Enterprise Quality Director, UK HealthCare; Internal Medicine Residency Program Director; and Associate Professor, UK College of Medicine.
• November 16: "The 70th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Code (1947)" by Claire D. Clark, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science, UK College of Medicine.

2016-17

Spring 2017

• February 16: "Research, Science, and Immigration: An American Love Story" by M. Sara Rosenthal, PhD, Professor and Founding Director, UK Program for Bioethics; Chair, Hospital Ethics Committee.
• March 16: "Conflicts of Interest, Conflicts of Commitment, and Lessons from the Anatabloc Scandal" by Rebecca B. Yarrison, PhD, Assistant Professor, UK Program for Bioethics, Departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Philosophy, and College of Nursing.
• April 20: "Climate Change Denialism, Data Censorship, and their Impacts on Research" by Lauren E. Cagle, PhD, Assistant Professor, Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies, UK College of Arts and Sciences.

Fall 2016

• September 15: "Research Ethics Challenges with Analyzing 9/11 Dust: New Frontiers in Exposure Science" by Clifford P. Weisel, PhD, Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University.
• October 20: "The Ethics of Research on Prisoners: New Lessons from History" by Claire D. Clark, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
• November 17: "Controversies in the Funding of Health Research and Bioethics Research: The Case of Canada" by Vardit M. Ravitsky, PhD, Associate Professor, Bioethics Program, School of Public Health, University of Montreal; Director, Ethics and Health Branch, Center for Research in Ethics.

2015-16

Spring 2016

• February 18: "Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex Research Methods - But Were Afraid to Ask: A Review of Kinsey and Masters & Johnson" by M. Sara Rosenthal, PhD, Professor and Founding Director, UK Program for Bioethics; Chair, Hospital Ethics Committee.
• March 17: "Bioethics in Extreme Environments: NASA and Space-based Research" by Paul Root Wolpe, PhD, ASA Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics; Director, Center for Ethics, Emory University; Senior Bioethicist, NASA.
• April 14: "Ethical Challenges of Unregulated Health Research Using Mobile Devices" by Mark A. Rothstein, JD, Herbert Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine; Director, Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law; Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine.

Fall 2015

• September 17: "The SUPPORT Trial and the New OHRP Guidelines on Consent" by Rebecca Yarrison, PhD, Assistant Professor, UK Program for Bioethics, Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and College of Nursing.
• October 15: "The Gene Editing Controversy: Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications" by Eric Meslin, PhD, FCAHS, Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics; Associate Dean and Professor of Bioethics, Indiana University School of Medicine.
• November 19: "Dr. Beecher's "Ethics and Clinical Research": From Patients to Population under Rule of Law" by Michael Rie, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology/Critical Care, UK College of Medicine.

2014-15

Spring 2015

• March 19: "Neonatal Aluminum Toxicity, Its Potential Danger and How We Can Avoid It: A True Bench to Bedside Application" by Robert Yokel, PhD, Provost Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UK College of Pharmacy.
• April 16: "Research Ethics and the Facebook Study Controversy" by Alex John London, PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Director, The Center for Ethics and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University.
• May 14: "Unintended Consequences of Lab Breaches: The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications" by Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc, FAHA, Chair, Department of Physiology; Senior Associate Dean for Research, UK College of Medicine; Director, Saha Cardiovascular Research Center; Gill Foundation Endowed Chair in Preventive Cardiology.

Fall 2014 

• September 18: "Scientific Integrity in Translational Research" by Jason Scott Robert, PhD, Lincoln Chair in Ethics, Arizona State University, Director, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, and Director, Arizona Bioethics Network.
• October 23: "Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Whole Genome and Exome Sequencing" by Mark A. Rothstein, JD, Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and Director, Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law, and Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine.
• November 20: "The 2014 Ebola Outbreak and Experimental Treatments: A Panel Discussion" with panelists Derek Forster, MD, Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control, UK HealthCare; Craig Martin, PharmD, Director of Professional Practice Development, UK College of Pharmacy and UK HealthCare Pharmacy Services; and R. Scott Morehead, MD, FCCP, Associate Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, UK HealthCare. Moderated by M. Sara Rosenthal, PhD, Professor and Director, UK Program for Bioethics, and Chair, UK HealthCare Ethics Committee.

2013-14

Spring 2014 

• February 26: "Ethical Issues in Addiction Research" by Rebecca B. Yarrison, PhD, Assistant Professor, UK Program for Bioethics, Departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and College of Nursing.
• April 2: "When Research Subjects Die: The Markingson Case and the CAFE Study" by Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, Professor, Center for Bioethics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts.

Fall 2013 

• September 25: “Controversies and Quagmires in International HIV/AIDS Research” by Alex John London, PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Director, The Center for Ethics and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University.
• November 20: “Infants and Children as Human Subjects: New and Old Ethical Challenges” by Randi Zlotnick-Shaul, JD, LLM, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Bioethics at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and the University of Toronto.

2012-13

Spring 2013 

• February 27: “What Is a 'Benchside Ethics' Consultation – and When Do I Need One?” by M. Sara Rosenthal, PhD, Associate Professor, UK Departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Behavioral Science, and Director, Program for Bioethics.
• March 26: “Current Challenges in Research Ethics: Amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, De-Identification, Biobanking and More!” by Mark A. Rothstein, JD, Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine, Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law, and Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine. 
• April 17: “Ethical Fallout and Consequences of Scientific Misbehavior and Misconduct” by Isabel Mellon, PhD, Associate Professor, UK Graduate Center for Toxicology.

Fall 2012 

• September 12: “Cellular Imposters: Cell Line Cross-Contamination and Research Ethics” by Kenneth B. Ain, MD, Professor of Medicine, Carmen L. Buck Chair of Oncology Research, and Director, Thyroid Oncology Program, UK Division of Endocrinology & Molecular Medicine, and Director, Thyroid Cancer Research Laboratory, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lexington, Ky.
• October 10: “Neuroscience and Other Sociopolitical Schemes” by Jeffrey P. Bishop, MD, PhD, Director and Tenet Chair of Health Care Ethics, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University.
• November 14: “Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Limits and Protections” by Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, Robert Henry Levi and Ryda Hecht Levi Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University.

2011-12

Spring 2012 

• April 18 – Inaugural Lecture: “The Avian Flu Controversy: Ethical, Scientific and Policy Implications” by Eric M. Meslin, PhD, Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics, and Professor of Medicine, Medical and Molecular Genetics, Public Health and Philosophy.