In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Dr. Steve Joffe will kick off our special Grand Rounds series, Ethical & Regulatory Dimensions of Pragmatic Clinical Trials, with a keynote presentation, “Building an Academic Learning Health System: Why Is It So Hard?” The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, September 9, 2022, at 1:00 pm eastern.
Dr. Joffe is a pediatric oncologist and bioethicist who is currently the Art and Ilene Penn Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
This special Grand Rounds series will include an additional 5 moderated webinar discussions with panels of experts. The sessions will focus on a range of topics, including responding to signals of mental and behavioral health risk in pragmatic trials; the ethics of data sharing; ethical and regulatory considerations in the design and conduct of pragmatic trials; pragmatic research involving patients with dementia; and the use of waivers and alterations of consent. Read the full program.