How broad is a broad consent? Commercialisation of public biobanks and the role of informed consent
Kristin Solum Steinsbekk 1; Berge Solberg 2
1Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Department of Social Work and Health Science, Trondheim, Norway; 2Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Department of Community Medicine and General Practice, Trondheim, Norway
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Broad consent - for research, commerce or patients?
Bjørn Hofmann
University College og Gjøvik and University of Oslo, Health, Care and Nursing, Gjøvik, Norway
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Is informed consent to future research legitimate?
Gert Helgesson
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, LIME, Stockholm, Sweden
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General consent to utilize human biospecimen and data for future research at hospital admission: a pilot project in Switzerland
Hans-Anton Lehr 1; Nicole Probst-Hensch 2; Michelle Salathé 3; Bernice Elger 4; Daniel Simeon-Dubach 5
1University of Lausanne, CHUV, Department of Pathology, Lausanne, Switzerland; 2Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Associated Institute of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; 3SAMW, Juriste, Basel, Switzerland; 4University of Geneva, Center for Legal Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland; 5Biobanque Suisse, Direction, Bern, Switzerland
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Trading in trust - the moral economy of research on patient data
Ann Rudinow Sætnan
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Dept of Sociology and Political Science, Trondheim, Norway
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Is consent fulfilling its role in current research practice?
Sandra Reid
University of Otago, Health Research Council of New Zealand, Bioethics Centre, Legal and Ethics, Dunedin, Auckland, New Zealand
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Medical research, public health ethics and the downscaling of informed consent
Maya Peled-Raz
University of Haifa, Int. Center for Health, Law and Ethics, Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, Haifa, Israel
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Rethinking patient autonomy through Rawlsian theory
Chuan-Feng Wu
Academia Sinica, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Taipei, Taiwan
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Newborn screening: Informed consent through the back door?
Ellen Wright Clayton 1; Lainie Friedman Ross 2
1Vanderbilt University, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Nashville, TN, United States; 2University of Chicago, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Chicago, IL, United States
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Ethical review and administrative governance of clinical research (MERGO): description of a research project
Elina Hemminki1; Piret Veerus2; Jorma Virtanen2
1National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland; 2University of Helsinki, Department of Public Health, Helsinki, Finland
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Treatment decisions and informed consent
Ellen Kristvik
Akershus University Hospital, Helse Sør-Øst Health Services Research Centre, Lørenskog, Norway
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Relational autonomy and informed consent
Ulrik Kihlbom
Uppsala University, Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB), Uppsala, Sweden
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The role of 'exploitation' and consent in protecting vulnerable research subjects
Phil Bates
The Open University, Centre for Law, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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From non-autonomous research subjects to informed consent: an attempt at a coherent approach
Andreas Dimopoulos
University of Liverpool, Law Faculty, Athens, Greece
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Consent in dementia research
Søren Holm
University of Manchester, School of Law, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Genetic counseling and ethical decision-making - reformulating the principle of autonomy in clinical ethics
Gabriela Brahier
University of Basel, Systematische Theologie/Ethik, Basel, Switzerland
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Making informed consent form readable and meaningful: practical suggestions and theoretical reflections
Hsiu-I Yang
National Yang Ming University, Publich Health, Devision of Law and Policy, Taipei, Taiwan
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Multi-media educational tool (speaking book) increases knowledge of clinical trials among HIV-positive patients in Kampala, Uganda
Gavin Robertson 1; Soeren Rasmussen 2; Richard Hubbard 2; Kevin Newell 3; Margaret Denty 1; Yukari Manabe 1
1Makerere University, Infectious Diseases Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Kampala, Uganda; 2Pfizer, Inc, Medical Division, New York, United States; 3Clinical Monitoring Research Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., NCI-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States
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Should potential subjects be informed researchers' financial interests and their funding sources? Reflections from the results of a survey in Taiwan
Hung-En Liu
National ChengChi University, College of Law, Taipei, Taiwan
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The separation principle in practice: patients’ views on the role of the medical staff in their decisions to donate supernumerary embryos for science
Veerle Provoost ; Guido Pennings
Ghent University, Bioethics Institute Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
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Poor quality of reports on informed consent in dissertation
Sofia Kjellström
University of Jönköping, Institute of Gerontology, Jönköping, Sweden
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Informed consent and phase IV medical research
Rosemarie Bernabe 1; Ghislaine JMW van Thiel 1; Jan AM Raaijmakers 2; Johannes JM van Delden 1
1Utrecht University Medical Center, Julius Center, Utrecht, Netherlands; 2GlaxoSmithKline, External Scientific Collaborations, Zeist, Netherlands
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A qualitative exploratory study of service user’s experiences of being a research participant in a high secure hospital
Ben Johnson1; Tracy Wilkins2; Catherine Mills3
1Ashworth Hospital, Mersey Care NHS Trust, High Secure Services, Liverpool, United Kingdom; 2Ashworth Hospital, Mersey Care NHS Trust, Nurse Therapist/Research Lead, High Secure Services, Liverpool, United Kingdom; 3c/o Lindsey Dyer, Mersey Care NHS Trust Headquarters, Users & Carers, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Paving the way to a harmonized legal platform for the sharing of human-biobank data beyond European borders
Yi-Chen Su
National Yang Ming University, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei, Taiwan
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