Center for Biomedical Ethics

The mission of the Center for Biomedical Ethics is to advance education, research and service concerning moral values in health care. The bioethics faculty work both individually and in research teams on problems in clinical ethics, the ethics of research involving human subjects, ethics and genetics, health care organization ethics and the history of bioethics. Special interests of center faculty include the ethics of clinical trials, surgical innovation ethics, problems of conflicts of interest in medicine, developments in bioethical theory, ethical and historical issues in genetics, and ethics in biodefense.

Contact:
PO Box 800758
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0758
Phone: 434-924-5974
Fax: 434-982-3971
Website: http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/bio-ethics/


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Projects By Center for Biomedical Ethics:

Divided Loyalties: Conflicts of Interest in Medicine
Tereskerz, Patricia M. Sponsor: U.S. National Library Of Medicine

Ethics and Data Monitoring Committees
Tereskerz, Patricia M. Sponsor: The Greenwall Foundation

Infected Physicians & Invasive Procedures: Development of National Policy Recommendations
Tereskerz, Patricia M. Sponsor: Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Regulating Innovative Surgery: Recommendations for National Policy & an Education Program
Moreno, Jonathan D. Sponsor: The Greenwall Foundation

Research Integrity & Financial Conflicts of Interest
Tereskerz, Patricia M. Sponsor: U.S. Nih Of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
This research would represent the first national study of multiple parameters of financial conflicts-of-interest, and how they may be correlated with practices thought to impact the integrity of research. ...

Faculty:
Burns, Carole – Visiting Professor

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