ACTA Webinar: Charting the content of data monitoring committee charters for clinical trials

Dr Lisa Eckstein is the CT:IQ Director and Ethics Specialist for Bellberry Ltd. She is an adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania, where her research focuses on the regulation of clinical trials, genomic privacy, and consent.

Prof Seema K. Shah, JD, HEC-C, focuses on the question of when it is ethically and legally acceptable to expose some people to risk to benefit others. Her research has analyzed this question in pediatric, infectious disease, and global health research, as well as in the determination of death. Professor Shah is the Director of the Pediatric Research Ethics and Policy Program and the Director of Research Ethics at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Lurie Children’s and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and holds a courtesy appointment at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.