[Sci-tech-public] STS Circle, January 31st - Patrick Taylor - (please RSVP)

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STS Circle at Harvard*
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*Patrick Taylor*
*Children's Hospital, Harvard*
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*Virtue, Probability, Relationships and Confusion: Conflicts of Interest and
Incompletely Theorized Notions of Scientific Sainthood*
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Monday, January 31st
12:15-2:00 p.m.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106

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Lunch is provided if you RSVP.
Please RSVP to sts <sts at hks.harvard.edu>@hks.harvard.edu<sts at hks.harvard.edu>
 by 5pm Thursday, January 27th.

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*Abstract:* There is no regulatory consensus on how to address
investigators' financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research.
 Regulations have neither the same objectives, nor similar rules, standards,
or procedures.  After more than 25 government and association reports and
recommendations over the last two decades; the creation of a now vast
literature demonstrating links between such payments or financial interests
and scientific bias, many forms of clinical trial bias, and publication
bias; irresponsible actions by institutional guardians of academic
integrity; and the well publicized deaths of research participants in
conflict-afflicted clinical trials, regulations remain  essentially
unchanged.  Almost no data exist to support how conflict of interest
policies are designed, the effectiveness of these regulatory approaches, or
the effectiveness of conflict management plans implemented by universities
and research hospitals.  How did this occur?  Is this law?  How should it be
remedied?  The answers have implications for the impeachment of Presidents,
the appointment of Supreme Court Justices, the definition of professional
norms, and an old rift within law itself.

*Biography*: Patrick Taylor is an Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center
for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
 He is concurrently a faculty member at Harvard Medical School.  His
longstanding, multidisciplinary research interest is the mutual translation
and evolution of law and policy imperatives in health care, science policy,
biomedical research and biotechnology.  He has been actively involved, as a
lawyer, on national and international policy-making bodies drawing on his
ideas for new norms.  His writings, on subjects as diverse as stem cell
research,  public engagement in science policy-making, the role of IRBs in
research conflicts of interest,  justice and respect for persons in
translational genomic research, clinical network development,
patient-controlled electronic medical records, and the ethics of
intellectual property, have appeared in leading scientific, science policy
and health law journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, and Nature
Biotechnology.

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