Simon N. Whitney
Biographical Sketch
Simon N. Whitney, MD, JD, is assistant professor and William W. O'Donnell, MD and Regina O'Donnell Chair in Family Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. He has a BA from Yale University, an MD from New York University School of Medicine, a JD from Stanford School of Law, and completed a fellowship in biomedical ethics at the Stanford Center for Bioethics, where he served on the Stanford Institutional Review Board. Dr. Whitney maintains an active family practice at Baylor Family Medicine. His major academic interest is the regulation of human subjects research. Dr. Whitney chairs a working group on this topic at the University of Texas School of Public Health that is sponsored by Jon Tyson, MD. He also does research in medical decision making, with particular interest in how the patient and physician participate in the decision making process, and how different decision making processes are appropriate for different types of decisions.
Keynote presentation: Estimating the Deaths from Research Regulation
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This conference is arranged by Cesagen at the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff and the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University.