Sentences with phrase «ethics committee chair»

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Allen H. Roberts II, M.D., is professor of clinical medicine and chair of the ethics committee at Georgetown University Medical Center.

A Port Authority commissioner from New Jersey who chaired the board's ethics committee has resigned over misconduct that the agency called «profoundly disturbing,» though it did not reveal what Caren Turner is accused of having done.

The new committee, which he will chair, advocates for bipartisan change in New York politics, including ethics and budget reform and job creation.

This action is related to an ethics case unrelated to the one that led him to step aside as chair of the powerful Ways and Means Committee last March.

(Rangel, as you'll recall, really wanted to help flip the House back into his party's hands so he could chair the powerful Ways and Means Committee — a post he lost as a result of his own ethics scandal).

Things got a bit heated when he asked about political campaigns «laundering» money through 501 (c)(4) s — a clear reference to the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York — and was abruptly cut off by JCOPE Chair / Westchester County DA Janet DiFiore, who was hand - picked by the governor to head the ethics watchdog.

He chaired the powerful tax - writing committee, ways and means, until a House of Representatives censure following an ethics scandal stripped him of his chairmanship and clout.

In response to the barrage of corruption and sexual harassment scandals over the last decade, the Legislature has also dramatically revamped the way it approaches its ethics and sexual harassment training, according to Assemblymember Charles Lavine, a Democrat from Nassau County and former chair of the Assembly's ethics committee.

I believe my bill proposing term limits on legislative leaders and committee chairs would be a better step toward ethics reform.»

«The Assembly has zero tolerance for sexual harassment, discrimination or retaliation,» Aravella Simotas, the chair of the Assembly's bipartisan committee on ethics and guidance, said in an emailed statement.

«The idea that the chair of the ethics committee has never had the opportunity to mark up a bill, has never had the opportunity to hold a hearing,» Mr. Bharara said, «tells you everything you need to know about the enabling nature of all the people in the State Legislature who may not have been convicted of crimes, but seem not to care that they're going on.

Harassment «damages the scientific enterprise, and that's why we went the step of defining [it] as scientific misconduct,» says Michael McPhaden, a former AGU president and chair of the society's ethics committee, which has drafted the society's new guidelines.

The possibilities raise a radical question about the moral status of human cells, noted Jan Helge Solbakk, head of research at the Center for Medical Ethics at the University of Oslo in Norway and chair of the society's ethics and public policy committee.

The announcement of the trial came last week from Cecil Clothier QC, chair of the government committee on the ethics of gene therapy.

The EPA ethics rules that bar scientists with grants from serving on these committees also prohibit panel members from industry from working on issues affecting their companies, says the current chair of the BOSC, Deborah Swackhamer, a University of Minnesota professor of science, technology and public policy.

In this role, Ms. Roxland re-launched and chaired J&J's Ethics Committee, created an enterprise - wide consultation service for teams and individuals confronting complex research ethics issues, and provided guidance on issues such as post-trial access for former research participants, conducting clinical trials in war - torn regions, testing of a potential Ebola vaccine during a public health crisis, commercialization of stem cell therapies, subject recruitment and withdrawal, and expanded access / compassionate use.

She has over 90 academic publications and has held several leadership and advisory positions, including Chair of the Gordon Conference on Science and Technology Policy, Secretary and Council Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the European Commission Expert Group for Science in Society and the EU's «SYNTH - ETHICS» project, the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee, and the UN WHO - FAO Expert Group for Agrifood Nanotechnology.

When a 2008 initiative, Measure 10, which would have banned the use of tax money for campaigns or lobbying and restricted political contributions by government contractors was defeated, its committee chair Jim Anderson noted, «We'll be able to prepare accordingly next time, knowing that the real opposition to ethics reform in South Dakota is NEA union officials back east.»

He serves as the chair of the Standing Committee on Research for the National Council of Teachers of English and is a member of the Literacy Research Association's Ethic Committee.

My skepticism arises from a number of things including the columnists» lack of evidence or investigation, my own approach to teaching, my research and writing on legal education (both for scholarship and as chair of our curriculum reform committee), and what I see my colleagues at the U of C and in the legal ethics community doing for their students.

Perhaps the most well - known recent case is that of Webster L. Hubbell, a former Associate Attorney General, chair of the Arkansas Bar Association's ethics committee, and a partner at the renowned Rose Law Firm.

The Best Lawyers in America The Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiffs» Lawyers in America Florida Super Lawyers Florida's Top Lawyers Florida's Legal Elite Chair of the Florida Bar Professional Ethics Committee Board Certification as a Specialist in Civil Trial Law by The Florida Bar Board Certification in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy «AV» rated by Martindale Hubbell, the highest rating in both ethics and legal ability Members of the American Board of Trial Advocates Board positions with a wide variety of legal, civic, charitable, and religious organizations

«It's a perpetual conflict, at least potentially, with non - lawyers controlling a law firm,» said Steven Krane, the chair of the American Bar Association's ethics committee and a partner at New York's Proskauer Rose.

Previously, Russell served as vice chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association's Trade Secrets Committee, vice chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association's Trade Secrets Litigation Subcommittee (of the Trade Secrets Committee), chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association's Legislation Subcommittee (of the Trade Secrets Committee), co-chair of the Boston Patent Law Association's Trade Secret Committee, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Strategic Planning Committee, and co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Annual Meeting Committee, and has been a member and co-chair of the Boston Bar Foundation John & Abigail Adams Benefit steering committee, served as Secretary of the Committee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono cCommittee, vice chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association's Trade Secrets Litigation Subcommittee (of the Trade Secrets Committee), chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association's Legislation Subcommittee (of the Trade Secrets Committee), co-chair of the Boston Patent Law Association's Trade Secret Committee, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Strategic Planning Committee, and co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Annual Meeting Committee, and has been a member and co-chair of the Boston Bar Foundation John & Abigail Adams Benefit steering committee, served as Secretary of the Committee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono cCommittee), chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association's Legislation Subcommittee (of the Trade Secrets Committee), co-chair of the Boston Patent Law Association's Trade Secret Committee, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Strategic Planning Committee, and co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Annual Meeting Committee, and has been a member and co-chair of the Boston Bar Foundation John & Abigail Adams Benefit steering committee, served as Secretary of the Committee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono cCommittee), co-chair of the Boston Patent Law Association's Trade Secret Committee, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Strategic Planning Committee, and co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Annual Meeting Committee, and has been a member and co-chair of the Boston Bar Foundation John & Abigail Adams Benefit steering committee, served as Secretary of the Committee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono cCommittee, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Strategic Planning Committee, and co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Annual Meeting Committee, and has been a member and co-chair of the Boston Bar Foundation John & Abigail Adams Benefit steering committee, served as Secretary of the Committee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono cCommittee, and co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Annual Meeting Committee, and has been a member and co-chair of the Boston Bar Foundation John & Abigail Adams Benefit steering committee, served as Secretary of the Committee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono cCommittee, and has been a member and co-chair of the Boston Bar Foundation John & Abigail Adams Benefit steering committee, served as Secretary of the Committee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono ccommittee, served as Secretary of the Committee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono cCommittee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono ccommittee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono ccommittee and a member of the national pro bono committeecommittee.

Garcia (pictured), who chaired the investigatory chamber of FIFA's ethics committee, announced his resignation from the committee earlier today (17 December), slamming FIFA and accusing the body of a «lack of leadership» at the top.

Supreme Court of New Jersey District IIA Ethics Committee, Bergen County - North Chair (2012 - Present) Vice Chair (2011 - 2012) Committee Member (2009 to 2011) The District Ethics Committee is charged with the investigation, prosecution and judgment of ethics matters involving attorneys.

In an article in the Illinois Bar Journal, lawyer Adam W. Lasker interviews Michael P. Downey, the former chair of the Illinois State Bar Association Standing Committee on Professional Conduct, on the ethics of LinkedIn endorsements.

Nicole is chair of the committee on professional ethics of The New York City Bar Association, co-chair for the Ethics Committees of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, and on the board of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.

In addition to being a partner in the litigation and professional responsibility groups at Frankfurt Kurnit, Ms. Hyland is the chair of the committee on professional ethics of The New York City Bar Association, co-chair for the Ethics Committees of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, and on the board of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.

Earlier this month we learned that BAE Systems has appointed former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf to chair a new independent ethics committee.

As I have experienced firsthand as chair of an ethics committee, within this competitive environment those involved in ethical review can face intense pressure from colleagues to speed up the process.

He is particularly involved in the area of bioethics, serving on the Ethics Committees of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and Phelps Memorial Hospital Center, and he was chair of the New York AMFT ethics committee.

As far as ethics are concerned, Dr. Beaton was the Ethics Chair for the Licensed Professional Counselor's Association of Georgia (LPCA - GA) for two years, and she has been on the Georgia Psychological Association's Ethics Committee for the past seven years and serving as Ethics Chair for the past four of those years.

It's an honor for me to serve as this year's Professional Standards Committee chair, especially now that the first Quadrennial ethics training cycle has passed successfully.