The Benchside Ethics Consultation Service
The Benchside Ethics Consultation Service (BECS) is a pilot program being developed through the combined efforts of an interdisciplinary group of researchers with CIRGE and the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. The program in Benchside Ethics Consultation is analogous to the bedside consultation service bioethicists and ethics committees have long provided for real-time discussion, analysis and resolution of ethical issues in the clinical setting; the BECS, however, focuses specifically on issues arising from laboratory and clinical research in the field of genetics.
The program is the first of its kind in that it allows for proactive identification of important ethical and policy issues in biomedical research. Through early and direct interactions among ethicists, philosophers, social scientists, lawyers, biomedical scientists and others, the BECS aims to facilitate discussions with researchers about as-yet-undefined, cutting-edge science as it unfolds.
During its pilot stage, the CIRGE Benchside Ethics Consultation Team will be collecting data on research ethics cases in order to evaluate the procedure, scope and overall success of the program. From there, investigators will generate material for creating education films and policy guidance brochures for research ethics training.
Project Team Members:
David Magnus, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and
Co-Chair of the Stanford Hospital and Clinics Ethics Committee
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Hank Greely, JD
Professor of Law, Stanford School of Law
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Mildred Cho, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
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Sally Tobin, PhD
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
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Jennifer McCormick, PhD, MPP
Post-doctoral Fellow, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
Angie Boyce
Project Manager, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
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