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#316: Research in Participants with Progressive Cognitive Impairment: Best Practices for Ensuring Continuing Informed Consent
Wednesday June 18, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
150AB
Component Type: Forum
Level: Advanced
CE: ACPE 1.00 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-25-622-L04-P; CME 1.00; RN 1.00

The session will describe informed consent in research participants with cognitive decline, discussing behavioral cues and consent/assent requirements for ethical practices when participants lose the ability to provide informed consent during a study

Learning Objectives

Recognize the ethical and operational challenges of engaging participants with cognitive impairment; Describe ethical options for retaining participants with cognitive impairment in clinical trials; Review best practices for informed consent/ caregiver consent/participant assent when the ability to give consent is lost during the course of a trial

Chair

Karla Childers, MS

Speaker

Sharing Clinical/Investigator Perspective
Thos Cochrane, MD, MBA

Sharing an IRB Perspective
Linda Reuter, MS


Speakers
avatar for Karla Childers

Karla Childers

Head, Bioethics-Based Science and Technology Policy, Johnson & Johnson, United States
Karla Childers is Head, Bioethics-based Science & Technology Policy in the Johnson & Johnson Office of the Chief Medical Officer. Her primary responsibility is leading and coordinating various bioethics-based, science policy projects since 2013. Her longest running responsibility... Read More →
avatar for Thos Cochrane

Thos Cochrane

Director, Fellowships in Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, United States
Thos Cochrane is a medical ethicist, neuromuscular neurologist, and specialist in drug development for rare diseases. He currently directs the Fellowships in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He has completed two fellowships in medical ethics and was the first Director of... Read More →
avatar for Linda Reuter

Linda Reuter

Senior Director, BRANY IRB, United States
Over a 34-year career, Linda has held multiple IRB administrative positions and for several years ran a consulting business providing training and assistance for several institutional IRB programs across the country. Currently serving as Sr. IRB Director at BRANY, Linda supervises... Read More →
Wednesday June 18, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
150AB Walter E. Washington Convention Center 801 Allen Y. Lew Place, NW Washington, DC 20001-3614 USA
  02: ClinTrials-Ops, Forum
  • Level Advanced
  • Keyword Bioethics
  • Level Advanced
  • format csv
  • Credit Type ACPE, CME, RN
  • Feature Topics Bioethics
  • Tags Forum

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