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9
Apr2015

Managing Meningococcal Disease

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9 Apr
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by Michael (Mike) Kraten, PhD, CPA, IRB Chair at Providence College

It's the news that no academic institution ever wants to hear. A life-threatening infection has struck a student on campus, and then a second student reports the same condition.

Recently, at Providence College in Rhode Island, two students contracted meningococcal infections and were rushed immediately to inpatient facilities. Working closely with the Rhode Island Department of Health (DOH), the College then managed to vaccinate over 3,000 at-risk undergraduate students in a single, brief, and intense outreach campaign with extensive information and medical applications.

That caught the attention of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where epidemiologists and public health [...] Read more

18
Feb2015

The Persistence Of Community

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18 Feb
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by Michael (Mike) Kraten, PhD, CPA, IRB chair at Providence College

As the chair of our college's institutional review board (IRB), you can only imagine how frequently I am asked questions about the 45 CFR Part 46 federal regulations regarding the requirements of human subjects research.
What types of questions? For instance:

  • I'm not sure whether my study is contributing to "generalizable knowledge." How can I tell whether it's doing so?
  • How can I possibly know whether I'm potentially damaging someone's "financial standing, employability, or reputation" with my work?
  • When does a "practicable" study become impracticable?

These questions, though tricky, are certainly not impossible to answer. [...] Read more

10
Dec2014

Global Ethics: A Deja Vu Experience

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10 Dec
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by Michael (Mike) Kraten, PhD, CPA, IRB Chair at Providence College

PRIM&R is pleased to share a post from Mike Kraten, 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. 

Have you ever experienced a sense of deja vu? A feeling of having lived through a moment in another life?

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