Past Workshops
INTEGRITY WORKSHOPS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
On November 3 and 25, 2010 the Graduate Affairs Office, Faculty of Medicine sponsors two identical integrity in research workshops for doctoral stream graduate students. All students are asked to read the two page article below before attending.
Martinson, BC, Anderson, MS, de Vries, R (2005) Scientists behaving badly. Science 435(9): 737-738.
Some supplementary articles recommended by the workshop participants are listed below (it is not necessary to read these before the workshop).
Authorship
Michalek AM, Hutson AD, Wicher CP, Trump DL (2010) The Costs and Underappreciated Consequences of Research Misconduct: A Case Study. PLoS Med 7(8):e1000318
Research Integrity
Titus SL, Wells JA, Rhoades, LJ. Repairing research integrity. Nature. 2008; 453(19): 980-982.
Biographies of November 3, 2010 Workshop Participants
Jocalyn Clark is senior editor at PLoS Medicine and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. Following her PhD in Public Health Sciences at UofT, Jocalyn Clark went to the British Medical Journal in London and was editorial fellow, assistant editor, and project manager of the journal's international campaign to revitalise academic medicine. In January 2008 she joined the open access publisher the Public Library of Science. She has written extensively in the areas of global health, women's health, equity, academic medicine, and the social context of health and health care. Jocalyn is a member of the Council for Science Editors and the Society of General Internal Medicine, and serves on the editorial policy committee of the World Association of Medical Editors.
Karen Davis holds a Canada Research Chair in Brain and Behaviour, and is a Senior Scientist and Head of the Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour – Systems Neuroscience at the Toronto Western Research Institute. Dr. Davis is a Full Professor in the Department of Surgery, Associate Director of the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. Dr. Davis has been the ‘pain measurement and imaging’ section editor for the international journal Pain since 2002. Dr. Davis also has vast graduate experience, as a supervisor of many students, as IMS Graduate Coordinator from 2002-9, and through service on many university graduate education committees, including SGS Council and the Faculty of Medicine Graduate Education committee. She was instrumental in the creation of many new IMS initiatives, including the IMS Graduate Oath and furthering ethics training within the Faculty of Medicine.
Shane Green leads the Ethics and Commercialization Programs at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, at the University Health Network and University of Toronto, where he is responsible for managing and delivering a comprehensive program addressing ethical, social, cultural and commercial issues in global health, including advisory consultation and research activities. Shane earned his PhD in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto, specializing in cell and molecular biology. He has studied and taught bioethics and research ethics through U of T, the U of T Joint Centre for Bioethics and the American Medical Association, focusing on ethical issues related to genetics, genomics and stem cell research, and scientists’ social responsibilities. In addition, Shane has served on the Research Ethics Boards of two major health research centres in Toronto, and is currently a member of the CIHR Stem Cell Oversight Committee.
David McKnight is Associate Dean, Equity & Professionalism in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a clinical anesthesiologist at St. Michael’s Hospital. In 2006, he completed an MHSc in Bioethics at the Joint Centre for Bioethics at U of T. He is a past chair of both the Ethics & Equity Committee of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Ethics Committee of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society.
Andrea Sass-Kortsak is the Vice Dean of Graduate Affairs in the Faculty of Medicine and an Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Occupational and Environmental Health. Under her leadership the Office of Graduate Affairs organized its first annual Integrity in Research Workshop for all new research stream MSc/PhD students in October 2008. The Office of Graduate Affairs also oversees the distribution of student graduate awards and promotes and supports cross-disciplinary initiatives among student groups.
Alison Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy. She has a background in philosophy (applied ethics) and social science. She focuses on the public understanding of science, and on public health ethics and policy. Her current research focuses on the social and ethical issues in public participation in health policy-making and emergency preparedness, and on public understanding of science issues that relate to pharmacy.
Ross Upshur is currently the Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and a staff physician at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. His research interests include the concept of evidence in health care, medical epistemology, clinical reasoning, public health ethics, ethics and health information, empirical approaches in bioethics, primary care research methods, time series applications in health services research, communicable disease and environmental epidemiology. He has been active on Advisory Boards for the International Joint Commission, Doctors Without Borders, and Scidev.net, several medical journals and consulted with the World Health Organization and the Grand Challenges in Global Health.
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On 4 and 18 November, 2009, the Office of Graduate Affairs hosted workshops on research integrity and ethics aimed at first year research stream graduate students. An expert panel discussed the topics of authorship, fabrication and falsification and whistle blowing. Short bios of the panel are below.
Following her PhD in Public Health Sciences, Jocalyn Clark went to the British Medical Journal in London and was editorial fellow, assistant editor, and project manager of the journal’s international campaign to revitalise academic medicine. In January 2008 she joined the open access publisher the Public Library of Science. She has written extensively in the areas of global health, women’s health, equity, academic medicine, and the social context of health and health care. Jocalyn is a member of the Council for Science Editors and the Society of General Internal Medicine, and serves on the editorial policy committee of the World Association of Medical Editors.
Karen Davis holds a Canada Research Chair in Brain and Behaviour, and is a Senior Scientist and Head of the Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour – Systems Neuroscience at the Toronto Western Research Institute. Dr. Davis is a Full Professor in the Department of Surgery, Associate Director of the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. Dr. Davis has been the ‘pain measurement and imaging’ section editor for the international journal Pain since 2002. Dr. Davis also has vast graduate experience, as a supervisor of many students, as IMS Graduate Coordinator from 2002-9, and through service on many university graduate education committees, including SGS Council and the Faculty of Medicine Graduate Education committee. She was instrumental in the creation of many new IMS initiatives, including the IMS Graduate Oath and furthering ethics training within the Faculty of Medicine.
Jim Lavery is a research scientist in the Centre for Research on Inner City Health and Centre for Global Health Research all in the Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, an Assistant Professor in the DLSPH and Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Jim is the co-principal investigator of the Ethical, Social and Cultural Program for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative. Jim has recently published his first book, Ethical Issues in International Biomedical Research: A Casebook, which he edited with colleagues at the NIH and Yale University, published in 2007 by Oxford University Press.
Trudo Lemmens is Associate Professor at the Faculties of Law and Medicine of the University of Toronto, and a member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics and the Centre for Ethics His publications include Reading the future? Legal and Ethical Challenges of Predictive Genetic Testing (2007, co-author), Law and Ethics in Biomedical Research: Regulation, Conflict of Interest, and Liability, (2006, co-editor) and numerous articles in law, ethics and science journals. His research currently focuses on the role and impact of law and regulation on medical research, drug development, and biotechnological innovation.
David McKnight is Associate Dean, Equity & Professionalism in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a clinical anesthesiologist at St. Michael’s Hospital. In 2006, he completed an MHSc in Bioethics at the Joint Centre for Bioethics at U of T. He is a past chair of both the Ethics & Equity Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Surgeons of Canada and the Ethics Committee of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society.
Barbara Secker is appointed in the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the Uof T where she directs the Clinical, Organizational and Research Ethics (CORE) Network, its postgraduate Academic Fellowship in Clinical and Organizational Ethics, the Masters in Bioethics Program, and the graduate Collaborative Program in Bioethics. She is holds faculty appointments in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, the Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science, and the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. From 1998-2008, Dr. Secker was employed by the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute where she developed, implemented and lead a comprehensive ethics program that included: research on ethical questions related to disability, rehab and community care; consulting on clinical, research, and organizational ethical issues; facilitating bioethics education; policy review and development; research ethics review; and leadership and program administration
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On October 8 and 15, 2008 the Office of Graduate Affairs hosted workshops on research ethics aimed at first year research graduate stream students.
Below is the the link to videos of the three presentations and panel discussion.
Video of Ethical Conduct in Research Presentations and Panel, October 2008
To see the speakers PowerPoint presentations, select the links below.
The Privilege of Conducting Research on Human Subjects
Dr. Jim Lavery, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine
Ethical Conduct of Research – what can go wrong?
Dr. David McKnight, Associate Dean, Equity & Professionalism, Faculty of Medicine
Integrity of Publications in Industry-Sponsored Research: Recent Challenges & Novel Remedies
Dr. Trudo Lemmens, Associate Professor , Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medicine