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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
	Chairs: Hans-Jörg Ehni, University of Tübingen, Germany Torunn Janbu, Chair of the Medical Ethics Committee, WMA
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

 

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

The date and venue of the 2^nd WVA-WMA Global Conference on One Health was:

• Thursday, 10th – Friday, 11th of November 2016
• Rihga Royal Hotel Kokura, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Moving forward from One Health Concept to One Health Approach

The date and venue of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics 12th World Conference BIOETHICS, MEDICAL ETHICS & HEALTH LAW is:

The Conference is designed to offer a platform for the exchange of information and knowledge and to hold discussions, lectures, workshops and exhibition of programs and databases.

For more information please check the following website: http://www.isas.co.il/bioethics2017-Limassol/index.php

If you wish to take part in the scientific program, submit your oral presentation or poster abstract together with a short CV to: confer@isas.co.il

Deadline for abstract submission: October 31, 2016

Please note:  Pre-meetings of workgroups, Finance Group and Executive Committee, Junior Doctors Network (JDN) meeting will be held on Tuesday, 18 April and/or Wednesday, 19 April 2017.

“More details and registration are available in the members’ area.