Preparations for the 2009 Advancing Ethical Research Conference are moving forward at full force. We are excited to announce that a few folks are “penned” into the program already, and promise to deliver insightful, inspiring keynote addresses!

Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, MD, principal deputy commissioner at the FDA, will kick off the conference on Saturday, November 14.

Then, on Sunday, November 15, we will hold concurrent keynotes: Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics and Health Policy and director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University; and Dan Ariely, PhD, James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University. If you haven’t yet registered for the conference, you can pick which keynote you would like to attend during the registration process. If you have registered, please e-mail us to let us know which keynote you plan to attend.

Finally, Dr. Keith Norris, professor of medicine and executive vice president of Research and Health Affairs at Charles Drew University of Medicine, will deliver the final keynote speech on Monday, November 16.
We are very excited to have all of our keynote speakers join us, and we hope you will register today you can see each of their speeches in person in Nashville.