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 “riskbased”?
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