The research ethics community suffered an enormous loss on January 25 with the passing of Barbara H. Stanley, PhD. Barbara was a hugely influential researcher and beloved PRIM&R Board alumna. She was a research pioneer, an incredible mentor, and a remarkable person. She will be greatly missed.   
 
Barbara served on PRIM&R’s Board of Directors for more than three decades, starting in 1984. During that time, she recognized that the burgeoning community of IRB and IACUC [...] Read more

PRIM&R’s Annual Conference is some of the few days each year when everybody agrees that federal regulations are somehow appropriate for dinner conversation, I tried to steer the conversation that way at Thanksgiving, and it did not go well. Since I primarily work with SBE researchers, most of the sessions of the most interest to me are on that path. Read more

I was working at my first “real” full-time job after college as a research assistant on clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease when the HIPAA Privacy Rule first rolled onto the scene (let’s not do the math on this, it makes me feel old). I remember many in the research community having one of two immediate reactions to the new requirements: either “Oh my gosh, this is going to bring research to a screeching halt” or “This is completely unnecessary; we already get informed consent from participants so why do we need HIPAA?” While this is all ancient history now, and we obviously know that neither was research in the U.S. hobbled nor was HIPAA abandoned, it [...] Read more