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Clinical Care vs Research: Walking the Ethical Tightrope Between Advocacy and Coercion
Monday June 16, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm EDT
TBD
Component Type: Forum
Level: Advanced

This session will delve into the historical and ethical context for distinguishing between clinical care and research and how the blurring poses a risk for engagement with patients. Experts in ethics and health literacy will discuss potential pitfall

Learning Objectives

Recognize the ethical and historical context for distinguishing between clinical care and research; Describe the regulatory and ethical challenges that are exposed when sponsors and investigators push patients to clinical research; Discuss how language and health literacy have the potential to impact an individual’s decision to participate in research.

Chair

Karla Childers, MS

Speaker

Bioethics perspective
Lindsay McNair, MD, MPH, MS

Patient and health literacy perspective
Catina O'Leary, PhD

IRB perspective
David Borasky, MPH


Speakers
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David Borasky

Vice President, IRB Compliance, WCG IRB, United States
David A. Borasky serves as Vice President of IRB Compliance for WCG IRB. Mr. Borasky has 20 years of experience in managing IRBs in settings that include global public health organizations, large academic medical centers, and independent IRBs. He has facilitated training activities... Read More →
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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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Lindsay McNair

Principal Consultant, Equipoise Consulting, United States
Lindsay McNair, MD, MPH, MSB is Principal Consultant at Equipoise Consulting. She was previously the Chief Medical Officer for WCG. In role she oversaw WCG IRB, and provided consultation to institutions and biopharma companies on a wide range of issues related to clinical protocol... Read More →
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Catina O'Leary

President and Chief Executive Officer, Health Literacy Media, United States
Catina O’Leary, PhD, is President and CEO at Health Literacy Media (HLM), a St. Louis based nonprofit that develops and distributes health literate and accessible health and science communications with a wide range of global partners. Before joining HLM in 2012, Catina was Assistant... Read More →
Monday June 16, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm EDT
TBD Walter E. Washington Convention Center 801 Allen Y. Lew Place, NW Washington, DC 20001-3614 USA
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