Sentences with phrase «of an ethics committee»

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

It's a little harder to trust him after some key members of the ethics committee were booted.

Fifa has announced Claudio Sulser, head of the ethics committee, will not take charge of the hearing as he shares Swiss nationality with Bin Hammam's presidential rival Blatter.

IOC president Jacques Rogge acknowledged last week that his organization received the complaint and says it is in the hands of the ethics committee.

The study has received the approval of the administration of the Souissi Maternity Hospital in Rabat, as well as the approval of the ethics committee for biomedical research at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rabat, registered with the Office for Human Research Protection of the US Health and Human Services Department (Registration Number: IORG0006594).

Nothing is ever said between members of the ethics committee.»

Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin denies the charges and has asked for a criminal investigation of the ethics committee itself.

As head of the ethics committee, Fitzpatrick says he helped write many of the rules.

Kellner — who has been stripped of his position as chairman of the Libraries Committee, banned from from working with interns, and docked of his staff budget as a result of the ethics committee findings — sent a formal notice of appeal to the committee requesting a public hearing on the matter.

«To take politics out of the ethics committee, you're not even supposed to serve on that committee if you're a member of a political party.

«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.

«It's also worth noting that the very low levels of alcohol and energy drinks used in these types of experiments are due to the restraints of ethics committees, yet people are using far more than this on average out on the street.

I suppose if one takes into account the lack of an ethics committee to oversee my dad's childrearing methodologies, the experiments started innocently enough.

Approval from the ethics committee of the Royal Veterinary College was not sought as it is the policy of the ethics committee not to subject retrospective studies of images stored in the archive to ethical review.

Kirkland & Ellis litigation and internal investigations partner Michael Garcia has been appointed as co-chairman of an ethics committee tasked with investigating allegations of corruption at football's international governing body FIFA, reports The Am Law Daily.

Megaw, who was admitted to the bar of Saskatchewan in 1985, was a bencher of the Law Society of Saskatchewan and has served as chairman of the ethics committee and conduct investigation committee.

The following is the question posed of the ethics committee in Proposed 2011 Formal Ethics Opinion 6 — Subscribing to Software as a Service While Fulfilling the Duties of Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property:

Not only are they unlikely to think that, but the investigators and members of ethics committees routinely tell me that they get clearer responses and hearings proceed more smoothly when a lawyer has counsel.

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.

Not exact matches

The House of Commons ethics committee held hearings this week to take a closer look at the breach that involves Facebook and, allegedly, the political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica.

A business - communication industry group that named Blazek its Communicator of the Year in 2013 said an ethics committee is currently evaluating how to address her venomous leaked messages.

The other day Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced he was establishing a committee within the company to evaluate the ethics of its artificial intelligence efforts.

In fact, the boards followed most of the accepted standards for board operations: Members showed up for meetings; they had lots of personal money invested in the company; audit committees, compensation committees, and codes of ethics were in place; the boards weren't too small, too big, too old, or too young.

One - by - one, members of the House of Commons» Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics questioned Massingham and Silvester's credibility and ethics.

We have struck a more collegial tone within the legislature on issues of democracy and health: for instance, we struck an all - party committee to review ethics in the legislature and asked MLAs Dr. David Swann and Danielle Larivee to co-lead a review of the province's mental health services.

He agreed to pay a $ 300,000 fine for misleading the committee during the investigation, and in the process dodged conviction on the actual charges through a combination of finessing some legal definitions, sheer self - confidence and raw political power (as Speaker of the House at the time of the complaints, he appointed the ethics committee.

The ethics committee at the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan weighed in on August 9, 1993, opining that to honor the parents» desire to continue Baby Terry's treatment «would be contrary to medical judgment and to moral and ethical beliefs of physicians caring for the patient» (my emphasis).

While sitting on hospital medical - ethics committees, I have sometimes worried that physicians are tempted, against the wishes of parents, to refuse or slow down life - sustaining treatment to an infant they think is better off dead.

A general summary was provided by ethics experts who testified before then - Congressman Albert Gore's Committee on Science and Technology in 1982: (1) Though risks in experimentation are inevitable, a strong bias toward the sacredness of human life requires the highest regard for the patient or subject.

In order to justify these recommendations, the committee appeals to an idiosyncratic conception of ethics and conscience.

Presumably, the committee from the United Church of Christ that called on Abernathy to «repent» of his authorship of the King autobiography felt that King's personal life was so uninteresting, or that such a neat separation could be made between personal morality and public ethics, that Abernathy could have only destructive motives for his revelation.

Bishop Michael Nazir - Ali, a former chairman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's ethics committee, the UK's fertility watchdog has criticised a decision by the NHS to fund a new fertility clinic that offers treatment to couples including those in same - sex partnerships.

Reflecting on the disordered state of medical oaths in the era of abortion, the Value of Life Committee in early 1995 sent a letter of inquiry to a group of prominent scholars and physicians, including distinguished authors of texts on medical ethics.

Borrowing from the new secular ethic of «compassionate death,» even the Catholic Health Association now publishes articles encouraging «futility policies» for hospital ethics committees that enable them to force the withdrawal of treatment from patients or families who do not make the «right» choice.

But several weeks after the operation, Steven's wife, Christie, accepted the prognosis that Steven would not improve and acquiesced to the hospital ethics committee's recommendation of withdrawing his tube feedings.

In 2007, for example, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) published an ethics - committee opinion denying its members the right of conscience against abortion:

The ethics committee of the Cameroonian football association will look into allegations of «fraud» by «seven bad apples» in their three group games.

Fifa's Belgian executive committee member, Michel D'Hooghe, has been cleared of ethics breaches over the gift of a painting from Russia's 2018 World Cup bid and accusations he tried to secure a job in Qatar for the son of a friend --(Guardian)

«In view of the facts alleged in this report, which include bribery allegations, Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke, in compliance with article 16 of the Fifa code of ethics, yesterday requested the Fifa ethics committee to open ethics proceedings.»

«On May 24 2011, Fifa executive committee member and Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer reported to Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke possible violations of the Fifa code of ethics allegedly committed by officials,» a Fifa statement read.

The ethics committee are bound by their rules to investigate any complaint by an executive committee member under article 16 of the ethics code.

Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter is facing another corruption investigation after the ethics committee of world football's governing body announced it was opening proceedings against him and key lieutenants Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner.

The deluded Norwegian head of the so - called ethics committee declaring that Warner, complete with large pension, leaves with «the presumption of innocence.»

API is concerned about the recent statement by the ethics committee under the Academy of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the subsequent national discussion about the medical ethics of elective caesarean sections.

Ethical approval Ethical approval was obtained from an ethics committee created for the North American Registry of Midwives to review epidemiological research involving certified professional midwives.

In total, 7893 parents gave informed consent for participation of their infants in the postnatal phase of the study.33 The medical ethics committee of the Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam, Netherlands) approved the study.

Ethics Violations Allegations of violation to this code of ethics brought - forth on any good - standing member of the IACSC should be submitted in writing to the IACSC Ethics Committee.

Ethical approval was obtained from the Royal College of General Practitioners, participating research bodies, and all local research ethics committees.

«The Assembly refers all charges of sexual harassment directly to the ethics committee.

Over the past week, things have gone downhill quickly for both Lopez, who announced he won't be seeking re-election as Brooklyn Democratic chairman, but has refused to heed calls to resign his Assembly seat; and Silver, who was revealed to have negotiated a secret settlement of $ 103,000 worth of taxpayer cash with two women whose harassment claims against Lopez pre-dated those sent to the ethics committee.