Summer/Fall 1999

CANADA

28–31 October 1999 
11th Annual Canadian Bioethics Society Conference: Expanding the Boundaries of Ethics. Westin Hotel, Edmonton, Alberta. Contact: CBS Secretariat (1999), 11659, 72 nd Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 0B9, Tel.: (780) 463-0983; Fax: (780) 437-5984 or e-mail: info@buksa.com.

13 November 1999 
NCEHR Regional Workshop ’99. Ethics in Human Research: Implementing the Tri-Council Policy Statement. Dalhousie University, Halifax. The Registration Form is available on our website at http://ncehr-cnerh.org or contact NCEHR Office. Tel: (613) 730-6225; fax: (613) 730-8251 or e-mail: office@ncehr-cnerh.org.

INTERNATIONAL

21 October 1999 
IRBs in Crisis: Institutional Responses, Hilton Washington & Towers, Washington, D.C. An educational event sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges and Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research. Contact: Association of American Medical Colleges, 2450 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20037-1126. Tel.: (202) 828-0417; fax: (202) 862-6160 or http://www.aamc.org/meetings/

29–30 October 1999 
Ethical Issues in Occupational Health Research, University of Texas Houston Health Science Center. Contact: Paula Knudson, Executive Co-ordinator, Office of Research Support Committees, UTHHSC, PO Box 20036, Houston, TX 77225. Tel.: (713) 500-5828; Fax : (713) 500-5830 or e-mail: paula.1.knudson@uth.tmc.edu.

20–23 November 1999 
Bioethics in and from Asia : the Fifth International Tsukuba Bioethics Roundtable, and Intensive Cross-Cultural Bioethics Course (TRT5), Biology/Agriculture Building A in Second Cluster of Colleges, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Contact: Secretariat: Darryl Macer, (B515) Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan. Tel: Int+81-298-53-4662 ; Fax: Int+81-298-53-6614 or e-mail: macer@sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp.

3 December 1999 
Clinical trials and tribulations in 2000 and beyond, Baltimore, Maryland. Contact: JHU School of Medicine, Office of CME, Turner 20, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore MD 21205, USA. Tel.: (410) 955 2959; Fax: (410) 955 0807 or e-mail: cmenet@jhmi.edu.

5 December 1999 
Annual ARENA IRB Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts. Conference hosted by the Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA). Meeting to be held at the Sheraton Boston. Details to be announced. Contact: PRIM&R/ARENA, 132 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116. Tel.: (617) 423-4112; Fax: (617) 423-1185; e-mail: prmr@aol.com or website at http://www.aamc.org/research/prim.

5–6 December 1999 
Annual IRB Conference, Boston, Massachusetts. Conference hosted by Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research (PRIM&R). Meetings to be held at the Sheraton Boston. Details to be announced. Contact: PRIM&R/ARENA, 132 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116. Tel.: (617) 423-4112; Fax: (617) 423-1185 or e-mail to prmr@aol.com or Web Site at http://www.aamc.org/research/prim.

13–16 February 2000 
International Conference: Ethics Education in Medical Schools, Eilat, Israel. The Conference is being organized by the International Center for Heath, Law and Ethics, and the Society for Medicine and Law in Israel. It will bring together medical specialists, ethicists, educators and jurists from all over the world. It will be accompanied by an exhibition of curricula, books, programmes and films dealing with education in ethics and ethical cases and issues. Deadline for abstracts: September 5, 1999. Contact: Secretariat, ISAS International Seminars, POB 574, Jerusalem 91004, Israel. Tel.: (972) 2-6520574; fax: (972) 2-6520558; or e-mail: isas@netvision.net.il.

17–20 May 2000 
Teaching Research Ethics: Seventh Annual Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Session topics will include an overview of ethical theory; using animal subjects in research; using human subjects in clinical and non-clinical research; and responsible data management. Several sessions will feature techniques for teaching and assessing the responsible conduct of research, and a panel will describe model curricula in research ethics. Contact: Kenneth D. Pimple, "Teaching Research Ethics" Project Director, Poynter Center, Indiana University, 618 East Third Street, Bloomington IN 47405-3602. Tel.: (812) 855-0261; Fax: (812) 855-3315, e-mail: pimple@indiana.edu or website: http://www.indiana.edu/~poynter/index.html.

21–24 September 2000 
The Fifth World Congress of Bioethics. Bioethics in the New Millennium: Ethics, Law and Policy, Imperial College, London. The Fifth World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics will focus on the relevance of bioethics and healthcare ethics to professional practice and issues of national and international policy in the next millennium. Deadline for abstracts: November 30, 1999. Contact: Anne Lavender, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, 73 St Michael’s Hill, Bristol, BS2 8BH, UK; e-mail: Anne.Lavender@bristol.ac.uk, or check this website regularly for programme updates: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/ethics/fifthcon.htm.

Spring and Fall 2000
Ethics in Research Training offered by the National Institutes of Health and the University of South Florida. An Intensive Training Course Focusing on Behavioral Health Services. Contact: Kelly M. Lyon, University of South Florida (813) 974-7623. E-mail: Lyon@fmhi.usf.edu. Visit website for detailed information and application forms: http://www.fmhi.usf.edu/mhlp/ethics/ethics.html.