Special Lecture: “The Ethics of Research Involving Human Subjects”
Dr. Robert J. Levine, a professor of medicine at Yale University and Director of the Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics will be speaking on “The Ethics of Research Involving Human Subjects” at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, October 2 in Butler Auditorium on the South Campus.
Dr. Levine is one of the leading figures in the theory and practice of the ethics of human research. He co-authored the seminal ethical document in the human subject protection field: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research commissioned by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. He is a Fellow of The Hastings Center, the American College of Physicians and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, author of Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research and founding editor of IRB:A Review of Human Subjects Research. Dr. Levine has years of experience serving as chair of Yale’s biomedical IRB.
