WMA Satellite Meeting Rotterdam

Start Date: June 26, 2012

End Date: June 26, 2012

Location: Rotterdam Room, The Manhattan Hotel, Rotterdam

WMA Satellite Meeting during the 11th World Congress of Bioethics: Thinking ahead – The future of the Declaration of Helsinki

9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., 26 June 2012
Rotterdam Room, The Manhattan Hotel, Rotterdam

Agenda (final)

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9:00 am	Welcome address Otmar Kloiber, Secretary General of the World Medical Association
Session 1	Chairs: Ramin Parsa-Parsi, Chair of the WMA DoH Workgroup, German Medical Association Torunn Janbu, Chair of the Ethics Committee of the WMA, Norwegian Medical Association
9:15 am	Introduction Urban Wiesing, WMA DoH Workgroup Scientific Board, University of Tuebingen, Germany
9:40 am	The Future of the Declaration of Helsinki Ruth Macklin, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
10:05 am	Helsinki in the Age of Human Rights Aurora Plomer, Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics University of Sheffield, UK
10:30 am	Break
Session 2	Chairs: Masami Ishii, Vice-Chairman of the WMA Council, Japan Medical Association Miguel R. Jorge, WMA DoH Workgroup, Brazilian Medical Association
11:00 am	On the relevance of embedding clinical equipoise in the Declaration of Helsinki Rieke van der Graaf, Julius Center, University Medical Center Utrecht Netherlands
11:25 am	Should the Declaration of Helsinki become more “risk‐based”? Annette Rid, Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University Hospital Zurich Switzerland
11:50 am	ECRIN proposals for amendments to the Declaration of Helsinki: ethics committees, transparency, and choice of comparator Jacques Demotes-Mainard, European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network (ECRIN)
12:15 pm	The new Declaration of Helsinki and the use of placebos in clinical trials: the controversy still remains Maria-Sharmila Sousa, Federal University of São Paulo, Paulista Medical School, Brazil
12:40 pm	Lunch
Session 3	Chairs: Peter Carmel, WMA DoH Workgroup, American Medical Association Poul Jaszczak, WMA DoH Workgroup, Danish Medical Association
2:00 pm	Ancillary care, the Declaration of Helsinki and the obligations of global justice John McMillan, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Australia
2:25 pm	The impact of paragraph 25 on informed consent for biobank samples Flora Colledge, Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland
2:50 pm	Refining the Declaration of Helsinki’s additional protections for research in children Anna Westra, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
3:15 pm	Break
Session 4	Chairs: Jeff Blackmer, WMA DoH Workgroup Scientific Board, Canadian Medical Association Otmar Kloiber, Secretary General of the World Medical Association
3:45 pm	Considering research on neuro-enhancement in the next revision of the Declaration of Helsinki Saskia Nagel, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck Germany
4:10 pm	Closing
4:30 pm	End