IUPUI

McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Lecture/Indiana Health Law Review Symposium

Grappling with Financial Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical Research, Education and Practice

Speaker: Dr. David Korn, Vice Provost for Research, Harvard University

Time: Noon - 2:30 p.m.

Location: Wynne Courtroom

Contact: Carsandra Knight for more information: (317) 274-1912

Noon - 1:00 p.m.

Keynote lecture: Dr. David Korn, Vice Provost for Research, Harvard University

Dr. David Korn, a longtime leader in research policy and science administration, became Harvard University\'s vice provost for research on September 15, 2008. A distinguished pathologist who was dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine for more than a decade, Korn has served since 1997 in senior roles at the Association of American Medical Colleges, where he is now the chief scientific officer.

Dr. Korn has broad responsibility for the review, development, and implementation of policies related to the conduct of academic research, especially in the sciences, and to aspects of Harvard University\'s relations with industry.

A graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Medical School who trained in pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Korn has served since January 2008 as chief scientific officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), which represents America\'s medical schools and many of its major teaching hospitals in Washington, D.C. Previously, starting in September 1997, he was the AAMC\'s senior vice president for biomedical and health sciences research.

Korn was the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professor and dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine from 1984 to 1995, also serving from 1986 to 1995 as Stanford\'s vice president for medical affairs. Before becoming dean, he was professor and chairman of the Department of Pathology at Stanford, and chief of the Pathology Service at the Stanford University Hospital. He is a past chairman of the Stanford University Committee on Research as well as a past president of the American Association of Pathologists (now the American Society for Investigative Pathology), from which he received a lifetime achievement award in 2004. He has served on a wide array of boards and committees related to science and research policy, and from 1984 to 1991 chaired the National Cancer Advisory Board.

A founder and chairman of the board of the California Transplant Donor Network, Korn more recently helped to found the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, a nonprofit corporation created to enhance and standardize the protection of human participants in medical and other scientific research. He is a member of the National Academies\' Institute of Medicine and was a founding member of its Clinical Research Roundtable.

1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Panel Discussion:

Dr. Mervin C. Yoder

Dr. David S. Wilkes

Dr. Rose Fife

Dr. Eric Meslin, Director, Center for Bioethics, IU School of Medicine

CLE and CME credit will be available (pending approval).

To register, contact Carsandra Knight for more information: (317) 274-1912