Talk Title: “When patients are partners: Challenges for IRBs, investigators, and patients”

Speaker: Joel S. Weissman, PhD, Deputy Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School

Please join us for lunch as Joel S. Weissman, PhD, Deputy Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, discusses the ethical challenges that can arise when patients become partners in patient-centered outcomes research. Dr. Weissman is currently the PI on two active PCORI grants and can offer practical advice on how to assemble a competitive LOI or full application to the institute.

Direction to BTM 05004 Conference Room: Coming from BTM (60 Fenwood Rd) lobby ask security to give you access to the 5th floor if you do not have badge access. Then proceed to the R elevators to the 5th floor. Once on the 5th floor, take a left at the corridor. The room is the 1st door on your right. Rm # 05004