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Research in Participants with Progressive Cognitive Impairment: Best Practices for Ensuring Continuing Informed Consent
Wednesday June 18, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
TBD
Component Type: Forum
Level: Advanced

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 an IRB Perspective
Linda Reuter, MS


Speakers
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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 →
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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
TBD Walter E. Washington Convention Center 801 Allen Y. Lew Place, NW Washington, DC 20001-3614 USA
  02: ClinTrials-Ops, Forum

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