by the staff of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
This piece, which originally appeared on the blog of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, has been reposted with permission.
We all need to know how to better manage health information that we did not expect. Today, the Presidential Commission for the Study of [...] Read more

by Maeve Luthin, JD, Professional Development Manager
For the second post in our two part series highlighting the evaluation results from the 2013 Advancing Ethical Research (AER) Conference, I'll be sharing your favorite parts of the meeting. We hope that we will be able to recreate some of these successes (and that you’ll be with us to witness them!) in Baltimore, MD, on December 5-7, 2014 for the 2014 AER Conference!
Finding Posters: We tried something new, and you told us that it [...] Read more

by Maeve Luthin, JD, Professional Development Manager
Many thanks to all of you who completed your 2013 Advancing Ethical Research (AER) Conference evaluations! We have poured over your feedback, and are pleased to be able to share with you the items you flagged as our top successes and those most in need of improvement. In today’s post, I’ll share what we’re working to fix before the 2014 AER Conference in Baltimore next December.
The Hunger Games: We ran into problems with lunches during the conference: there simply wasn’t enough lunch for everyone. We promise to work more with our food and beverage [...] Read more
by Joan Rachlin, JD, MPH, Executive Director
As most of you have by now read or heard, change is in the air at PRIM&R since I will be stepping down on March 31, 2014 after 39 years at the helm. On Tuesday, December 3, the PRIM&R Board of Directors announced the [...] Read more
by Jennifer Vergara-Jimenez, MD, MS Bioethics, assistant director of research compliance, Jaeb Center for Health Research and Adjunct Faculty, South University Health Programs
While the 2013 Advancing Ethical Research (AER) Conference has drawn to a close, PRIM&R is pleased to continue sharing reflections from members of the PRIM&R Blog Squad to provide our readers with an inside peek of the [...] Read more
by László M. Szabó, Esq., Director of the Office of Research Regulatory Affairs at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
While the 2013 Advancing Ethical Research (AER) Conference has drawn to a close, PRIM&R is pleased to continue sharing reflections from members of the PRIM&R Blog Squad to provide our [...] Read more