WMA DoH Conference Cape Town
Start Date: December 5, 2012
End Date: December 7, 2012
Location: The Westin Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa
Expert Conference on the Revision of the Declaration of Helsinki – Cape Town, 5-7 December 2012
5 – 7 December 2012
The Westin Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa
Agenda (final)
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| Day 1 Wednesday, 5 December 2012 | |
| 2:00 | Welcome and opening Zephne Van Der Spuy, President of the South African Medical Association Representative, Health Ministry of South Africa Cecil Wilson, President of the WMA Otmar Kloiber, Secretary General of the WMA Ramin Parsa-Parsi, Chair of the WMA DoH Workgroup |
| Chairs: Peter Carmel, American Medical Association Ramin Parsa-Parsi, Chair of the WMA DoH Workgroup |
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| 2:30 | Revising the Declaration of Helsinki: Challenges and limitations Urban Wiesing, University of Tuebingen, Germany |
| 3:00 | Keynote speech 1 Ezekiel J. Emanuel, University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Chairs: Mzukisi Grootboom, Chairman, South African Medical Association Konstanty Radziwill, President, Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists |
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| 4:00 | Keynote speech 2 Julian Kinderlerer, Cape Town University & European Group on Ethics |
| Day 2 Thursday, 6 December 2012 | |
| Chairs: Miguel R. Jorge, Brazilian Medical Association Masami Ishii, Vice-Chairman of Council, WMA |
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| Session 1 | Vulnerable groups |
| 9:00 | Ames Dhai, Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 9:15 | Samia Hurst, Geneva University Medical School, Switzerland |
| 9:30 | Hans-Jörg Ehni & Elisabeth Ritter, University of Tuebingen, Germany |
| Session 2 |
Biobanks |
| 10:00 | Vilhjálmur Árnason, University of Iceland, Iceland |
| 10:15 | Julius Ecuru, National Council for Science and Technology, Uganda |
| Chairs: Mark Sonderup, South African Medical Association Leonid Eidelman, Israel Medical Association |
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| Session 3 | Post-study arrangements |
| 11:15 | Alex John London, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| 11:30 | Fazel Randera, South African Medical Association, South Africa |
| 11:45 | Ruth Macklin, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA |
| 12:00 | Joseph Millum, Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, USA |
| Chairs: Poul Jaszczak, Danish Medical Association Alarico Rodriguez, Uruguay Medical Association |
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| Session 4 | Ethics committees |
| 2:00 | Mariela Mautone, Committee of Bioethics, Sindicato Médico del Uruguay |
| 2:10 | Joseph Mfutso-Bengo, University of Malawi, Malawi (presented by Ames Dhai) |
| Session 5 |
Enhancement |
| 2:35 | Urban Wiesing, University of Tuebingen, Germany |
| Chairs: Margaret Mungherera, President-Elect, WMA Xavier Deau, Conseil National de l’Ordre des Médecins, France |
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| Session 6 |
Positions of international organizations |
| 3:30 | Hans Van Delden, CIOMS |
| 3:40 | Marie-Charlotte Bouësseau, World Health Organisation (WHO) |
| 3:50 | Jerry A. Menikoff, Department of Health and Human Services, USA |
| 4:00 | Fergus Sweeney, European Medicines Agency (EMA) |
| 4:10 | Dominique Sprumont, TRREE Initiative & FMH Switzerland |
| 4:20 | Dafna Feinholz, Sector for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO |
| 4:30 | Jörg Zinserling, Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), Germany |
| 4:40 | Gavin Steel, Medicines Control Council South Africa |
| 4:50 | Salvatore Alesci, IFPMA |
| 5:00 | Christian Gluud, European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network (ECRIN) |
| Day 3 Friday, 7 December 2012 |
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| Chairs: Hans-Jörg Ehni, University of Tübingen, Germany Torunn Janbu, Chair of the Medical Ethics Committee, WMA |
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| Session 7 |
General consultation |
| 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 |
Topic 1: Insurance/compensation/protection Topic 2: Use of unproven interventions / off-label use (para. 35) Topic 3: Broad consent (para. 25) Topic 4: Medical research involving children |
| 11:30 | Consensus building / summing up Round table discussion Facilitator 1: Jeff Blackmer, Canadian Medical Association, Canada Facilitator 2: Urban Wiesing, University of Tübingen, Germany |
| 12:00 | Closing & next steps Otmar Kloiber, Secretary General of the WMA Cecil Wilson, President of the WMA Zephne Van Der Spuy, President of the South African Medical Association |