CARE events promote multidisciplinary and exploratory discussion of cutting-edge issues in the field of research ethics. In doing so, it aims to advance Ohio State’s shared values and build a community around the topic of research integrity.

This panel brings together researchers and experts to address the following:

One of the main ways to safeguard rights of research participants is to ensure that the risks of study participation are minimized and that there is the right balance between study risks and benefits. But how should we think about the risks of research? Is there an upward limit to acceptable risk when it comes to IRB approval? Should we stop risky research from taking place even if certain people want to participate, knowing full well the risks?

Panelists
Robert J. Steel, PhD (Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health)

Dr. Steel is currently a research ethicist at the NIH. He is formerly a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Population-Level Bioethics at Rutgers and the Clinical Center Department of Bioethics at the US National Institutes of Health. Dr. Steel works primarily in bioethics, especially research ethics, and received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh for a dissertation on the epistemology of peer disagreement (specifically) and higher-order evidence (more broadly).

Eric Singer, MD (Division Chief of Urologic Oncology, Department of Urology, OSUMC)