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Apr2015

by Jim Gearhart, BA, Member of the Board of Directors for Quorum Review IRB

If you attended PRIM&R's 2014 Advancing Ethical Research (AER14) Conference in December, there's a good chance you attended the performance of "The Drama of DNA: Implications of Genomic Protocols that Reconceptualize the Boundaries of 'Normalcy.'" I'm saying the chances were good because the venue for "The Drama of DNA" was a large conference room filled to standing-room only capacity. In the time since the AER14, I have recalled more than once the themes that "The Drama of DNA" shared with us.
The "Drama of DNA" sprang from the [...] Read more

6
Feb2015

By Jim Gearhart, BA, Member of the Board of Directors for Quorum Review IRB

If one quote sums up the usefulness of PRIM&R’s annual Advancing Ethical Research (AER) Conference, I think it’s one I heard over the lunch table: "This is why you come to PRIM&R: to hear what’s coming up for the next year."
And I know I already used that line, in my last Blog Squad post from the 2014 AER Conference, but it came back to me again this week. Not even two months [...] Read more

10
Dec2014

by Jim Gearhart, BA, Member of the Board of Directors for Quorum Review IRB

PRIM&R is pleased to share a post from Jim Gearhart, a member of the PRIM&R Blog Squad for the 2014 Advancing Ethical Research (AER) Conference. The PRIM&R Blog Squad is composed of PRIM&R members who will blog here, on Ampersand, about the conference to give our readers an inside peek of what happened December 4-7 in Baltimore, MD. 

PRIM&R’s 2014 AER Conference got off to an inspiring start on Friday with perceptive discussions [...] Read more